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More facilities
for fiber
Regional
realignment
In line with regional realignment
and management moves, Beta
LaserMike’s Ethem Erdas, previously
western USA district sales manager,
will assume the north central eastern
USA area. His new sales territory
includes eastern Ohio, West Virginia,
western New York, and western
Pennsylvania.
Mike Cooley will manage midwest
USA, continuing to oversee the
Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota,
Nebraska, and North and South
Dakota regions and including
northern Arkansas and northern
Oklahoma. He will work closely with
partner Concept Machine Tool and
its metrology division to develop
the plastic medical tube extrusion
business in Minnesota.
Brad Robillard is to assume the
regional territory responsibilities for
Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and
western Ohio. Given the business
opportunities in this region and the
focus required to best serve key
customers, Mr Robillard brings an
exemplary track record of success
in the sales of Beta LaserMike’s
measurement and controls solutions.
Applied Optoelectronics Inc (AOI),
a developer and supplier of fiber
optic access network products, is to
increase its manufacturing capacity
in Taiwan with the move to new
facilities.
“Our facility expansion in Taiwan
is consistent with the previously
announced
planned
capital
investment and manpower in order
to support rising demand in our data
center and FTTH markets,” said Dr
Thompson Lin, AOI’s chairman and
CEO.
“We have simply outgrown our
existing facility and we are pleased
to have found a much larger facility
that meets both our current and
future needs. The facility more than
triples our available floor space and
is better suited for a manufacturing
environment than our current
space. …We plan to begin moving
manufacturing operations, on a
staged basis, to the new location in
July, and expect to complete the
move by Q1 of 2015.”
AOI will invest around $5.8 million in
improvements to the new facility for
manufacturing and research and
development efforts.