3 Nov 08 - Stadium acquires Rugby based EMS provider Zirkon Limited (view press release)

On 3rd November 2008 Stadium Group plc acquired Zirkon Limited. The company is now fully integrated within Stadium Electronics. The acquisition presents a great opportunity for expanding our EMS business on the strength of our combined capabilities and synergies between the customers and markets served.

The enhanced EMS capability now offers additional surface mount production bringing the total production to six lines in the UK and five lines in China. Further test facilities include AOI, mechanical assembly and extended design and engineering resource.

Additional benefits include global component sourcing and offshore manufacturing from the wholly owned Stadium facility in China - offering you, the customer, a complete EMS solution.

Stadium Electronics provides high quality electronic manufacturing services (EMS) to original equipment manufacturers in the consumer, industrial, personal care and automotive markets. We offer a partnership approach and a flexible, proactive service to our customers from UK (Hartlepool and Rugby) and China manufacturing locations.

A dedicated design engineering department provides a comprehensive design and build support service and full turnkey project management delivering your product on time and on budget.

Turnkey Capability

• Design
• Layout
• Prototype
• Procurement
• Manufacture
• Test and QA
• Product Approval
• Logistics

Manufacturing Expertise

Stadium Electronics main line facilities include automatic conventional and SMD printed circuit assembly, line dedicated flow solder, AOI and ATE test, whole product assembly and design for manufacture expertise.