Top Union Electronics Corp. (Taiwan, China)

1. Established in 1990, Top Union Electronics Corp. initially issued its stock in 2000, landing in GreTai in 2004. 2. Business of Top Union Electronics Corp is PCB board assembly and processing, mainly linking the microprocessor, memory and other components through surface to play the PCB substrate design features. Revenue in 1995 2006 was about $ 1.2 billion, of which sales volume to the major client SHURE reached 77%. There are 12 production lines in Suzhou, 12 production lines in Shanghai and 6 production lines in Taiwan. 3. Top Union Electronics Corp. called itself as the EMS manufacturer, aiming at developing three areas of DFM、SMT、RFTest to establish the platform of DesignForManufacturing in order to design products for different kinds of clients. SMT is used to go with the trend of SoC and SiP to set up the C4 process and RFTest is used for the test and development of wireless communications products. 4. Compared with the competitor Taibiao Technology, Taibiao Technology exceeded Top Union Electronics Corp. in the revenue of year 2006. The operation risk of Top Union Electronics Corp is higher than Taibiao Technology. 5. The product is tending to be more and more precise as the electronic products become lighter and thinner. 6. Negative factors: With the shrinking profit margins of the consumer electronics, profit margins PCB manufacturers is becoming less and less. With the environmental requirement, the investment in the high-polluting PCB processing is not so welcome. And with the higher cost in the human force, the cost pressure is becoming higher and higher.