Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Held Today; New Production Facility Adds Significant Manufacturing Capacity of Optical Components
SUNNYVALE, CA and WUXI, CHINA--(Marketwired - Oct 15, 2013) - Finisar Corporation (
"As the demand for high-speed optical products continues, our new Wuxi facility will add much needed manufacturing capacity in China," said Jerry S. Rawls, Executive Chairman of Finisar. "Finisar will continue to invest in the infrastructure required to give our customers critical access to products as market demands increase. We are very proud of our local management team and employees that have worked so hard to make this a reality."
"The addition of the Finisar Wuxi plant is a great example of our worldwide manufacturing strategy which supports continually increasing levels of high volume production along with competitive production costs," said Joe Young, Executive Vice President of Global Operations. "We are confident that the Wuxi facility will match the quality and performance of other Finisar plants around the globe that our customers are accustomed to."
This year, Finisar is also celebrating its 25 year anniversary in the optical communications industry and the opening of the Wuxi facility is a significant highlight. Finisar is one of only a few optics companies to operate its own manufacturing sites which allow the ability to quickly ramp up volumes and shift production from one product to another as needed. Finisar Wuxi joins other Finisar manufacturing sites worldwide, including Ipoh, Malaysia; Shanghai, China; Fremont, California; Allen, Texas; and Jarfalla, Sweden.
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