Universal Manufacturing Corporation (UMC) was founded in 1968, to manufacture Printed Circuit Boards. Being the first independent PCB fabricator in the Puget Sound area, UMC gained a reputation for high quality, robust Printed Circuit Boards. The management group at UMC continually incorporates new leading edge manufacturing processes. A common theme among this group is the desire to work with Design Engineers during initial layout to incorporate manufacturability, proper materials, and reliability into their product from the beginning. Our goal is to stay current or ahead of our customer's technology needs.

Time Line

1968 UMC founder, Donald Jenkins left John Fluke manufacturing as general manager.
1968 UMC founder, Donald Jenkins incorporated and began operations of UMC as the first independent manufacturer of Printed Circuit boards in the state of Washington.
1970 UMC moved to Woodinville location.
1971 UMC obtained UL certification for the manufacturing of Printed Circuit boards.
1972 UMC began producing double sided through hole plated circuit boards.
1979 UMC expanded operations at the Woodinville site.
1985 UMC began production of Multi Layer printed circuit boards.
1989 Greg Jenkins took over operations of UMC. In addition to production Multi Layer circuit boards, UMC began production of quick turn, High Technology Multi Layer circuit boards.
1998 Greg Jenkins became a partner in an Asia PCB manufacturing operation and founded UMC Global Inc.
1999 UMC obtained ISO 9002 Certification.
1999

UMC expanded its West Coast marketing to include Independent Sales Representatives in the state of California and Arizona.

2000

UMC expanded the facility & operations at the Woodinville site.

2001 UMC Global Inc. expanded the Asian PCB operation into China and Japan.
2001 UMC expanded Electrical test, Inner-Layer and A.O.I. Processes at the Woodinville site.
2001 UMC opened a sales office in the Silicon Valley.
2002 UMC expanded processes to include Soft Bondable Gold Plating to service the Advanced Micro Electronics and Medical market place.
2002 UMC opened a sales office in the state of Oregon.
2004 UMC obtained ISO 9001:2000 Certification.
2005 Eric Howland joined UMC, as National Sales Manager, and headed the expansion of our sales rep network to include Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Northern & Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, Mexico and Canada.
2006 UMC acquired additional Advanced Technology processing equipment, to include, two Pluritec auto loading CNC drilling machines, a Lohr Herman CNC jump scoring machine, an X-ray registration/ verification system, a thin core/fine line copper etching system, an advanced fine line laser photo plotter, and an RoHS compliant immersion silver/gold plating line.
2006 Ken Stowers, former owner of Velie Circuits Inc, of Costa Mesa California, joined UMC as Vice President of Marketing. Rob Newton and Shaun Salas, formerly of Velie Circuits Inc, of Costa Mesa California, joined UMC as direct sales people.



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