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FEI to Leverage SMTC's Mexico Operations for Large Scale System Integration TORONTO, July 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - SMTC Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTX, TSX: SMX) ("SMTC"), a global electronics manufacturing services provider, announced today a strategic relationship with FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) (FEI). FEI is a premier provider of electron and ion-beam microscopes and tools for nanoscale applications across many industries: industrial and academic materials research, life sciences, semiconductors, data storage, natural resources and more. With a 60-year history of technological innovation and leadership, FEI has set the performance standard in transmission electron microscopes (TEM), scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and DualBeams(TM), which combine a SEM with a focused ion beam (FIB) technologies. SMTC will manufacture integrated control cabinets for FEI's Titan(TM) Transmission Electron Microscopes leveraging the internal precision sheet metal fabrication, printed circuit board assembly and cable harness a