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TTM Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1998 by Kent Alder in Redmond, Washington, via an acquisition of Pacific Circuits, Inc., and moved to Santa Ana, California, in 1999, after acquiring Power Circuits, Inc. Alder was previously the president of Lundahl Astro Circuits, Inc. in Logan, Utah, from 1987, and president and CEO of its successor ElectroStar, Inc. from 1994. After ElectroStar was acquired by the Tyco Printed Circuit Group in 1996, Alder served as that company's vice president before departing to found TTM.
TTM's original business was manufacturing printed circuit boards (PCBs) used in routers, switches, servers and memory modules, and its customers included General Electric, Motorola, and Solectron. In 2000, the company made its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq stock exchange. In 2002, TTM acquired Honeywell Advanced Circuits, Inc. for US$2 million, gaining a 281,000-square-foot (26,100 m2) factory in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin (the largest PCB manufacturing facility in the country) and adding customers including Cisco, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. In 2006, TTM acquired the Tyco Printed Circuit Group for $226 million, expanding its business to specialized PCBs geared to the aerospace and defense sectors.
In 2010, TTM acquired the Hong Kong–headquartered Meadville Printed Circuit Group for $521 million, which expanded the company's footprint in Asia and extended its business to PCBs used in smartphones and tablets. In 2013, Tom Edman succeeded Alder as president of TTM, and in 2014 also succeeded him as CEO on Alder's retirement. In 2015, the company acquired Viasystems Group, Inc. for $950 million, marking its entry into the automotive industry and further expanding its presence in aerospace and defense. In 2018, TTM acquired Anaren, Inc. for $775 million, expanding to high-frequency radio and microwave microelectronics used in the space, defense, and telecommunications industries.
In 2019, TTM acquired intellectual property assets from i3 Electronics, Inc., citing a particular interest in i3's technology enabling very fine printed lines and spacing down to 25 microns. In 2020, TTM sold its mobile device business unit, comprising four facilities in China, to AKM Meadville Electronics (Xiamen) Co., Ltd., for $550 million. Also in 2020, TTM closed down its commercial assembly business unit, comprising three facilities in China. In 2022, TTM acquired Telephonics Corporation from Griffon Corporation for $330 million, further expanding its operations in aerospace and defense.
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