MANILA, Philippines ? The electronics manufacturing company Ionics Inc. is expanding in the United States with the establishment of a full service design and photocopying house in Silicon Valley.

Ionics told the Philippine Stock Exchange on Friday that its board of directors had approved the proposal for its subsidiary Ionics EMS Inc. to set up the company in the U.S.

Ionics is essentially a contract electronics manufacturer. Most of its end products are components and sub-assembly parts which are eventually used as inputs for the finished products of its customers.

Its primary products include printed circuit boards, phone communication boards, chip-on-board assembly, head carriage assembly, wire harness assembly, coil winding and level assembly, component assembly, flexible printed circuit board assembly, among others.

The company's manufacturing operations are conducted in seven plants located in Calamba and Cabuyao, Laguna, and one plant in China.