Corporate History

Founded in July 1994, Flash Electronics, Inc. has rapidly grown into one of World's premier electronics manufacturing service(EMS) providers.

The past years have been a record-setting period of achievement and recognition for Flash. With significant growth rates in comparison to industry performance, Flash was named to the coveted Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast-50/500 Lists of fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Flash was also named twice to the prestigious Inc.500 List of America's fastest-growing private companies. And, for the third-year running, it was named to the SV-100 and SF-150 lists of fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.

In less than 10 years, Flash has expanded its Silicon Valley production capacity ten-fold. It presently occupies 180k sq.-ft, with three state-of-the-art facilities in Fremont, CA. In August 2000, Flash also launched a global manufacturing strategy with completion of a new 55,800 sq. ft. facility in Shanghai, China. The success of our Shanghai plant has led to our expansion in China. A second 340,000 sq. ft. site in Suzhou, China to help meet the demand on today's market demands.
Flash's headquarters is in Silicon Valley is midway between San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco and close to all Bay-Area airports. All sites are fully certified to TL9000 and ISO9001:2000, BABT and TUV requirements. Existing production capacity exceeds 100 million component placements per month.

Since its inception, Flash Electronics has been driven by two over-riding objectives: The first is to create a culture of quality dedicated to surpassing customer expectations. The second goal is to sustain its exceptional growth rate and achieve top-tier status, in the global Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry.

At Flash Electronics, we take pride in serving OEM needs in advanced markets such as Telecom, the Internet, Computers, Automation and Instrumentation. Flash Electronics is committed to developing long-term partnership relationships that grow with the success of its customers in diverse market areas. We place emphasis on total manufacturing solutions from design review and DFM, through prototyping and pre-production, to full volume production, test and order fulfillment.