Manufacturing Industry
Contracts keep Trend busy in rough economy.(Trend Technologies Inc.)
Plastics News, December, 2001 by Renstrom, Roger
SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Electronic enclosures maker Trend Technologies Inc. is on a roll despite the economic slowdown. Trend received new product contracts worth more than $350 million during the nine months ended Sept. 30 and anticipates 2001 sales of about $550 million. ``In Guadalajara [Mexico], we are ramping products so fast we can hardly see,'' Bill Hobbs, president and chief executive officer, said in an interview at his office in San Jose.
For the second straight year, Plastics News recognized Trend as a finalist in its Processor of the Year competition. The near-commodity status of electronics enclosures requires low-cost manufacturing and global flexibility for plastics injection molding, sheet-metal fabrication and integration. The fast pace of...
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