Diodes Incorporated Wins Double at UK Industry Awards

Date
11/17/2011

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Diodes Incorporated wins the NMI's Manufacturing Site of the Year award for 2011. Pictured left to right are: Derek Boyd, CEO of the NMI, Craig Davey, Principal Equipment Engineer, Diodes Incorporated and John Langhan, Director of award sponsor Merit Merrell.

Diodes Incorporated has picked up two awards from the United Kingdom's National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) at its prestigious Industry Summit & Gala Dinner and Awards 2011 held at the Wyndham Grand Chelsea Harbour, London, on November 3, 2011. Diodes won the award categories for Skills, Training and Development and for Manufacturing Site of the Year. Now in its 9th year, the NMI's Industry Summit & Gala Dinner and Awards attracts more than 300 guests from the United Kingdom and around the world. On presenting the two awards, the NMI's Chief Executive Officer, Derek Boyd, said, "In the category of skills, training and development, Diodes Incorporated's Oldham manufacturing operation showed clear leadership in the training of its workforce and in its engagement in problem solving, which has led to a fantastic improvement in business metrics." He continued, "As the manufacturing site of the year, Diodes Incorporated's wafer fab in Oldham impressed the judging panel the most, by clearly demonstrating a wide range of successes in a variety of different areas. These included: significant increases in productivity, capacity and toolset usage; significant reductions in costs; and workforce engagement, resulting in many very tangible improvements in the manufacturing process."

Tim Monaghan, Head of Diodes' United Kingdom Operations, said, "We are very proud to have won these two awards, which are both, in no small way, a result of the hard work and commitment of individual employees working closely together in dedicated teams to achieve some very far-reaching and demanding manufacturing goals." Commenting on the award, Dr Keh-Shew Lu, President and Chief Executive Officer of Diodes Incorporated, said, "Excellence in manufacturing is one of the real cornerstones of Diodes' success, and I am particularly proud of our Oldham team for its tremendous effort over the years, which will strongly contribute to Diodes' growth in the future." About Diodes Incorporated Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD), a Standard and Poor's SmallCap 600 and Russell 3000 Index company, is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within the broad discrete, logic and analog semiconductor markets. Diodes serves the consumer electronics, computing, communications, industrial, and automotive markets. Diodes' products include diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs, protection devices, functional specific arrays, single gate logic, amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect and temperature sensors; power management devices, including LED drivers, DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, and voltage references along with special function devices, such as USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, and motor controllers. The Company's corporate headquarters, logistics center, and Americas' sales office are located in Plano, Texas. Design, marketing, and engineering centers are located in Plano; San Jose, California; Taipei, Taiwan; Manchester, England; and Neuhaus, Germany. The Company's wafer fabrication facilities are located in Kansas City, Missouri and Manchester, with two manufacturing facilities located in Shanghai, China, another in Neuhaus, and two joint venture facilities located in Chengdu, China. Additional engineering, sales, warehouse, and logistics offices are located in Fort Worth, Texas; Taipei; Hong Kong; Manchester; and Munich, Germany, with support offices located throughout the world. For further information, including SEC filings, visit the Company's website at www.diodes.com

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