Sanmina Corporation, a leading manufacturing solutions company making some of the world's most complex and innovative electronic, optical and mechanical products, today announced its Costa Mesa, California facility has been awarded the AS9100C certification for high technology PCB (printed circuit board), flex and rigid flex circuit boards used in aerospace and defense electronics equipment.

Achieving the AS91000C certification enables Sanmina to produce PCB's and flex circuits for advanced defense and aerospace equipment, including avionics and satellite electronics. The AS9100C certification is an internationally recognized standard focused on improving quality systems throughout the defense and aerospace supply chain. Compliance with this certification ensures that mission critical equipment used by the military and government meets the highest levels of quality and safety. Sanmina Costa Mesa certifications also include ITAR, MIL-PRF-31032, MIL-50884, MIL-55110 and ISO9001-2008.

"Attaining the AS9100C certification allows us to leverage the knowledge and experience we've gained from more than a decade of manufacturing complex PCBs and flexible circuits for leading companies in the aerospace industry," said Steve Bruton, Executive Vice President of Circuit Board Technology at Sanmina. "Our facility in Costa Mesa is unique, built from the ground up with advanced clean rooms for imaging and processing for some of the highest density PCBs and flex circuits in the world."

Sanmina is recognized as a leader in high speed and mission critical PCBs and backplanes, providing complete interconnect solutions to leading companies in communications networks, defense and aerospace, computing, medical, industrial and multimedia market segments. With nine state of the art PCB, backplane and cable facilities around the world, Sanmina provides an end to end solution, from design and technology development to global manufacturing.