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Sanmina Receives 2017 Supplier Excellence Premier Award from Raytheon
November 7, 2017 | PRNewswireEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Sanmina Corporation announced today that Raytheon has recognized Sanmina with a Premier Supplier Excellence Award for their outstanding achievement. Premier awards are awarded to suppliers whom have demonstrated premier achievement for Raytheon in business management, technology, partnership, or affordability. Only the highest achieving Suppliers are awarded this honor.
Sanmina's Costa Mesa, California facility received Raytheon's Premier Award for excellence in technology, quality and delivery performance. This award recognizes Sanmina's leadership and expertise in the high reliability interconnect technologies required for Raytheon's mission critical military and aerospace products. Sanmina's technology center in Costa Mesa specializes in advanced flex, rigid flex and printed circuit board technology, memory, printed circuit board assembly and system integration. Sanmina specializes in the most advanced flex circuits, and printed circuit boards with up to 70 layers and other new technology.
"We are very proud of this award, and Raytheon's recognition of our commitment to technical innovation, operations excellence and customer focus," said Rich Kampf, President of Sanmina's Interconnect Systems Division. "The Sanmina and Raytheon engineering teams are strong partners in the development of new capabilities and processes that support some of Raytheon's most advanced products."
Sanmina has been a leader in technology for mission critical aerospace and defense systems for many years. Sanmina has 20 design, manufacturing and technology centers in the U.S., giving customers a complete capability including optical, microelectronics, printed circuit boards, enclosures, precision machining, plastics, design, system manufacturing and configure to order services.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2016 sales of $24 billion and 63,000 employees, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of innovation spanning 95 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, C5I™ products and services, sensing, effects, and mission support for customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
About Sanmina
Sanmina Corporation is a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering superior quality and support to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the communications networks, storage, industrial, defense, medical, automotive and energy industries. Sanmina has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world. More information about the company is available here.
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