Salcomp Plc Release 26 October 2007 at 11:30 Finnish time
SALCOMP HAS MANUFACTURED OVER ONE BILLION CHARGERS
Over its history of charger manufacture, Salcomp has made over one billion
chargers. The billionth charger was completed at Salcomp's plant in China on 25
October 2007.
”We made our first mobile phone charger in 1988. Throughout the 1990s the
production volumes were small compared with the current level; rapid growth on
the charger market began in the 21st century. From 1990 to 1999 we made a total
of some 100 million chargers, whereas from 2000 till today the corresponding
figure is close to 900 million,” says Pekka Kyyriäinen who has been with Salcomp
since 1995 and is currently in charge of production in China.
From the beginning, Salcomp has focused on chargers based on the environmentally
friendly switch mode technology. Introduced first by Salcomp in 1988, switch
mode technology has now nearly completely replaced the older linear technology
in mobile phone charging. Switch mode chargers have a significantly better
utilisation ratio and clearly lower standby-mode energy consumption than linear
chargers. The energy saved with the one billion Salcomp chargers as compared
with linear ones equals approximately the annual output of a 600-MW coal power
plant.
Manufacturing one billion chargers and delivering them to customers around the
world has also called for strong logistics, which is one of Salcomp's key
success factors. The making of one billion chargers has involved approximately
49 billion components and, for example, 1.8 million kilometres of cable.
Salcomp has production plants in China, India and Brazil with a current total
capacity of some 330 million chargers per year.
Salcomp Plc
Markku Hangasjärvi
President and CEO
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