Carsten Salewski, Member of the Executive Board and Head of Sales, Marketing, and International Business, Viscom AG

STI Electronics, Inc. (STI) will celebrate our 38th year in business in 2020. Our purpose and vision have always been and will continue to be about providing the highest quality manufacturing, training, and engineering services to our customers around the world.

STI's world renowned training will continue to grow with advanced programs, updated standards as well as customized courses covering new technology in our Alabama, Indiana, Florida and Texas classrooms. This is on top of our always popular IPC Certification programs.

STI's AS9100 certified manufacturing operations will continue to grow our high reliability government and commercial production in both flex and ridged assemblies. We reorganized our STI team in 2019 to better utilize existing talents and strengths. That reorganization is already paying off for STI and its customers. In addition, we will continue to add talent, capital equipment and software to better serve our customers.

2020 should be an interesting year for everyone in our industry. There will be a lot of noise from the US elections, Brexit, Hong Kong, China, and unpredictable tariffs. However, I am cautiously optimistic that the electronics manufacturing industry and resulting demands will overcome these obstacles.

We are looking for a great year in 2020 and wish the same for our industry neighbors and friends. I'm quite confident that STI is positioned to take advantage of whatever surprises the new year may bring.