Merix Corporation is a printed circuit board manufacturer based in the U.S. state of Oregon. Prior to a merger in 2010 with Viasystems, the Beaverton based company had been the 31st largest public company in Oregon based on market capitalization as of 2006. The company is now a subsidiary of Viasystems. Merix Corporation was started in 1994 as a spin-off from Tektronix, Inc. in Oregon’s Silicon Forest, employing 700 people. Tektronix contiuned to own 27% of the new company. The City of Portland’s Office of Sustainable Development awarded Merix a BEST Award in 1997 for water... conservation. Merix lost $9.6 million on revenues of $87 million in 2002, and followed that with losses of $30 million in 2003 on revenues of $95 million. In December 2004, the company bought Data Circuit Systems and named the unit Merix San Jose. That fiscal year Merix returned to profitability with a $20,000 in earnings from $156 million in revenues. On September 29, 2005, Merix purchased the operations of Eastern Pacific Circuits Holding Limited. Merix renamed these operations as Merix Asia.
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| NASDAQ symbol: | MERX |
| Headquarters: | United States of America |
| Legal structure: | Public company |
| Annual revenue: | $287,130,000 |
| Net income: | $-49,260,000 |
| Operating income: | $-41,730,000 |
| Market cap: | $100,000,000 |