AWS Electronics Continues Expansion of Slovakia Manufacturing Facility

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AWS Electronics Group, one of Europe's leading specialist electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers, has announced a further significant expansion at its low cost manufacturing center in Námestovo, Slovakia. The £1 million investment – AWS’ third phase of development at the site – almost doubles the available production space enabling a second automotive line to be located at the facility. Revenue growth at the Slovakia plant is now growing at around 25% year on year, and while the automotive sector is one of the main contributors to growth and a major driver for the expansion, other sectors such as lighting, scientific instrumentation, medical and general industrial are also showing healthy growth.

“Our strategy of continually investing and expanding our Slovakian facility in a region which is physically close to significant existing and potential new customers is working very well. Education in Slovakia generally and locally in Námestovo is of a very high standard, so our workforce there is extremely capable and well qualified,” says Paul Deehan, AWS Electronics’ CEO. “They are working to world class manufacturing methods, procedures and international accreditations that are standardized in our UK site also. Nine years ago, we started with 12 people at small facility in Slovakia 2km from where we are now located – now we have 250 staff and they are excited to be working with state-of-the-art production and test equipment, which is the same as the resource available at the UK plant and operated using a central, company-wide, real time manufacturing control system.”

AWS Electronics’ Slovakian manufacturing center carries ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 13485 approvals and is working towards ISO/ TS 16949 automotive certification with completion of final audits due at the end of 2016.