Microtronix recently hosted a tour of its facilities led by its CEO, Michael Goodyer, for esteemed policymakers from various countries including South Africa.

Microtronix has, however, grown its customer base and its fleet of machinery to become a major player in the SMT manufacturing industry in South Africa.

With the recent acquisition of the balance of the Yekani assets, Microtronix now operates 50 CNC component placers or pick-and-place machines for service to our customers.

This state-of-the-art production line is a dual-lane Panasonic line with 16 heads capable of running at well over 1 million placements a day.

The worldwide semiconductor shortage will persist through 2021, but is expected to recover to normal levels by the second quarter of 2022.

In times like this, surrounded by mostly bad news, we hoped the front cover of Dataweek this month would make you smile and you will appreciate some light hearted humour in these dark days of our struggling ...

“Contract manufacturing is not for the fainthearted and my respected colleagues and competitors will attest to this.” – Mike Goodyer.

Change means different things to different people and organisations. It can mean the challenging of paradigms, disrupting performances that are embedded in comfort zones, seeking a better way, constant learning and improvement, and much more.

Microtronix CEO, Mike Goodyer, tells the story of the company’s remarkable journey to becoming an electronics manufacturing force to be reckoned with.