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Product category: Electronics Manufacturing Services
News Release from: MRP Electronics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 04 February 2008

UK CEM gains heavyweight backing

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Now, as part of the Asteel group, Bedford-based MRP Electronics has become one of the largest contract electronics manufacturers in the UK.

Bedford-based MRP Electronics has been acquired by Asteel, a French group of companies specialising in electronic and electromechanical subassembly manufacture Established in 1999 and headquartered in Paris, Asteel has 11 manufacturing facilities in France, two in Tunisia and one in Romania

Further, the acquisition of MRP (which was set up in 1987) comes a little over one month after Asteel's acquisition of Flash Electronics, which is headquartered in Fremont, California and which has four manufacturing facilities in Silicon Valley and two in China.

The acquisition of MRP produces an electronic manufacturing service (EMS) provider with annual revenue in excess of US $750 million and a global manufacturing floor space of more than 1 million square feet.

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