Mike Gonzalez
Maxim Philippines Operating Corporation (MPOC) is a subsidiary of Maxim Integrated Products. MPOC has two manufacturing sites, one in Cavite and the other in Batangas. Both cities are within driving distance of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. The Cavite facility is the larger of the two, consisting of a workforce of 2,550 employees. The Batangas site has 497 employees. The Cavite and Batangas sites are located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) apart.
MPOC operations in Cavite started up in April 1997. The site was set up to enable Maxim to reduce dependence on subcontracted test and assembly processes and to accommodate future manufacturing growth requirements. In 2000, Shipping, Tape & Reel, and Wafer Sort operations were all transferred to MPOC Cavite, and in 2004, a failure analysis laboratory was added. Today, the Cavite site is a major manufacturing facility for both test and assembly. The Batangas site, which manufactures devices for module and WLP operations, including iButtons®, was also established in 1997.
In addition to its locations in Cavite and Batangas, Maxim also has a Philippine Shared Service Center called MESC (Maxim Enterprise Solutions Corporation) located in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. MESC took over the shared service function from Singapore in January 2009.
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