Saline Lectronics invests $1.1 million in equipment to target two new sectors

Saline Lectronics is growing, and growing, and growing and growing… Excerpt: Boosted by the weak dollar and manufacturers’ need to get complex electrical parts quickly, Saline Lectronics has invested $1.1 million in new manufacturing equipment to accelerate its movement into two new sectors. Saline Lectronics received a tax abatement from the city of Saline to install new technology designed to “continue quality improvement,” said CEO Mario Sciberras. Sciberras said the new technology would allow his company to more efficiently target the aerospace and medical industries. The 80-person contract manufacturer specializes in producing customized electrical circuit boards. Sciberras has said his company is benefiting from the weak dollar and clients’ reluctance to request overseas orders that take weeks to arrive. The new investment will require the addition of about a dozen workers, Sciberras said. “It is specifically to continue to help us be perfect in our manufacturing. What this new line does is count all the material as you’re manufacturing and tracks for quantity, so it knows exactly what’s been put on the board in assembly,” he said. “It provides real-time production feedback.” Read the rest of the story here and another one about the Saline-based firm here.