Endicott Interconnect to add 700 jobs
Categories: Medical JobsENDICOTT - ENSCO, Inc. and Endicott Interconnect will manufacture a baggagescreening machine designed to detect explosives. The venture will add 700 jobs ,over the next four years at Endicott Interconnect. The ENSCO-developed SureScan screening system can check up to 1,000 bags per hour for explosives. Technology-development company ENSCO turned to Endicott Interconnect to manufacture the SureScan machines for a commercial market, says Karen Carpenter, director of marketing and communications for Endicott Interconnect Technologies.
Endicott Interconnect will spend $10 million readying its facility to produce the SureScan, she adds.
Endicott Interconnect is a privately held venture of several partners including the Maines family of Maines Paper and Foods and the Matthews family of electronics maker, the Mateo Group. Local investors purchased the IBM microelectronic division’s assets in 2002 as part of a $100 million venture. The company employs 1,900 and had $200 million in annual revenues for 2003. Endicott Interconnect manufactures electronic components, electromechanical equipment, and other electronics used in the defense, medical, and automotive industries, as well as for other sectors.
The ENSCO manufacturing partnership reflects the change the former IBM operation has undergone since the local owners took control.
“We have gone from a computer-focused [business] to a very diversified company over the past year,” says Carpenter.
The company has customers around the world, she adds. Its facilities cover more than one-million square feet. The SureScan manufacturing venture won’t require the addition of any space, says Carpenter.
ENSCO and Endicott Interconnect will begin testing the SureScan machines at airports in the U.S. and Europe later this year, pending approval of the Transportation Security Administration. After approval and testing, the units will be sold directly to airport-operating authorities around the world.
ENSCO unveiled the latest version of the SureScan this month at the Passenger Terminal Expo trade show in Geneva, Switzerland.
Virginia-based ENSCO, Inc. employs 725 at facilities in Endicott, Melbourne, and Cocoa Beach, Fla. and its field offices in Beijing. The privately held company has annual revenues of $90 million.