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• Corporate Fact Sheet
• Press Contacts

Corporate Fact Sheet

Company

• IPTE is a market leader in the development of turnkey automation systems for the production, testing and treatment of printed circuit boards (PCBs) and for final assembly work. The company offers an integrated portfolio for manufacturing completely automated and integrated production and test equipment. Its contract manufacturing arm handles PCB assembly, off the shelf cabling and product assembly.
• A global company headquartered in Genk, Belgium, founded in 1992.
• A public company, traded on Euronext Brussels (symbol: IPTE)

Location

• R&D and manufacturing facilities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania and China
• Sales and Customer Service Support centers in Belgium, Germany, France, UK, Portugal, USA, Singapore and China.

Facts and figures

• Net sales for 2006: EUR 138.3 million (2005: EUR 126.6 million)
• Net profit for 2006: EUR +1.8 million (2004: EUR +2.1 million)
• Management:
• Huub Baren, Managing Director
• Vladimir Dobosch, CCO Factory Automation
• Luc Switten, CEO Contract Manufacturing
• Hugo Ciroux, CFO
• Eric Dejonghe, Chairman of the board
• Personnel: >2,000
• Sales: direct sales and agents
• Product Portfolio: Production Automation, Test Automation, Transport equipment, Laser Marking, Depaneling, Odd-form Placement, Optronics, PCB Assembly, Cable Assembly, Module Assembly.

Customers

• IPTE counts among its customers major global companies such as Alcatel, Blaupunkt, Bosch, Ericsson, Flextronics, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Schrader, Solectron, Siemens and VDO.
• Major market segments: automotive (30%) , telecommunications (17%) and industrial products (30%)
• Markets by Region: Western Europe (90%), Asia and America (7%), Eastern Europe (3%).

Headquarters

IPTE NV
Geleenlaan 5
B 3600 Genk
Tel: +32 (0)89 623 000
Fax: + 32 (0)89 623 010
E-mail: info@ipte.com
www.ipte.com

Press Contacts

Media members may contact IPTE Headquarters or IPTE ’s local media relations agencies

• IPTE Headquarters

Lindsay Aerts
IPTE Marketing Communications
Geleenlaan 5
B 3600 Genk
Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)89 623 033
Fax: + 32 (0)89 623 003
E-mail: lindsay.aerts@ipte.com

• Germany

Redaktionsbüro Stehle
Pinzberger Weg 16
D 90425 Nürnberg
Tel: +49 (0)911 3 777 900
Fax: +49 (0)911 3 777 901
E-Mail: roland.stehle@t-online.de, stehle@gfu.de

• France / Spain