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Superior Quality. Prompt Delivery. Excellent Service. Established in 1996, Stealth Components has quickly become a leader in the independent distribution of electronic components. Stealth provides stock and source services of standard long-lead-time, allocated, hard-to-find, and obsolete electronic components for domestic and international customers in an effort to eliminate gaps, reduce costs and avoid production delays and line stoppages. Stealth’s leadership, process efficiencies, associate industry experience paired with our trusted network of suppliers enable us to provide components with improved lead time while ensuring product quality is not compromised. Our experienced account executives are on call 24 hours a day to ensure customer needs are continually met.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Auto manufacturers continue to struggle to keep up with demand after March disasters

Japan’s auto manufacturing industry was disrupted greatly by the disasters. Auto manufacturers have decreased production by 14.9%. Damages to plants, recertification issues, and electricity shortages have played a major role in slowing production lines and profit loss.

Toyota expects to cut production by 40,000 vehicles resulting in a profit loss of $72 million. Toyota also plans to close 12 plants nationwide. Honda also announced that it will lose an output of 20,000 vehicles and will not return to normal production levels until after the summer.

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