TORONTO, Feb. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SMTC Corporation (Nasdaq:SMTX) (TSX:SMX) ("SMTC"), a global electronics manufacturing services provider, today announced it has received the 2012 Global Electronics Manufacturing Service (EMS) Product Quality Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan.
Frost & Sullivan is a global growth consulting firm which provides customer-dependent market research and analysis and growth strategy consulting services. Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that consistently delivers and exceeds customer expectations in maintaining a high level of quality throughout its organization. This award, like other Frost & Sullivan Best Practices honors, recognizes the relevance of quality, innovation and leadership by SMTC in the EMS industry.
"In order to create value for customers, ensuring product quality is crucial. In an increasingly competitive environment, SMTC Corporation continues to deliver value for its customers through assurance of high level quality. SMTC Corporation's dedication to adhere to strictest quality requirements and differentiate itself is commendable. This has helped SMTC Corporation position itself strongly to capitalize on increasing opportunities," said Lavanya Rammohan, Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan.
SMTC's locations in the USA, Mexico, Canada and China deliver a full range of high-quality, turnkey electronic manufacturing solutions that enable its customers to improve time-to-market, quality and reliability while reducing costs. Beyond just electronic manufacturing, these solutions include design and engineering services tailored to meet the innovative new product development needs of customers, flexible supply chain management services to help customers reduce costs, and order fulfillment services to help improve time-to-market.
"We have become an EMS leader by making quality our top operational focus," said Paul Blom, SMTC's Executive Vice President and Operations. "We are extremely proud of our success and will continue to invest in this business and deliver exceptional results for our customers."
"We deliver what we say we are going to deliver," said Claude Germain, SMTC's President and Chief Executive Officer. "This has involved building on our global strengths in customer service, quality, reliability and technology to meet demanding and highly engineered customer requirements. We look forward to continued profitable growth in many important market segments."
Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry. To learn more about Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards go to www.awards.frost.com.
About SMTC Corporation: SMTC Corporation, founded in 1985, is a global provider of flexible and customized electronics manufacturing services (EMS) including PCBA production, systems integration and testing, enclosure fabrication, as well as design, engineering and supply chain management services. SMTC facilities span a broad footprint in Mexico, United States, Canada and China, with more than 1,875 full-time employees. SMTC services extend over the entire electronic product life cycle, from the development and introduction of new products through to the growth, maturity and end-of-life phases. SMTC offers fully integrated contract manufacturing services with a distinctive approach to global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and emerging technology companies primarily within industrial, medical, computing and communication market segments.
SMTC is a public company incorporated in Delaware with its shares traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol SMTX and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SMX. For further information on SMTC Corporation, please visit our website at www.smtc.com (http://www.smtc.com/)
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