Willtech Inc., a 4-year-old South Korean wireless communications equipment testing company, is moving its U.S. subsidiary from Walnut to Santa Ana in a bid to raise its profile alongside the area’s technology companies.
“Orange County is the Silicon Valley of Southern California,” said Carlos Oliu, the company’s operations manager for the Santa Ana facility.
Willtech International, as the subsidiary is called, has 20 employees but plans to expand to an unspecified number by year’s end, Oliu said.
“We’re expanding in all areas, including engineering, sales and production,” he said.
The move, which the company was undertaking last week, expands Willtech International’s operations from 3,000 square feet of space in Walnut to 11,890 at the Carnegie Center in Santa Ana.
The company supplies wireless communications testing equipment to top players such as Nokia Corp., Sprint PCS Group, Motorola Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc.
Willtech International’s parent company recently began trading on the Korea Stock Exchange in Seoul. The U.S. unit did not receive funding from the offering, Oliu said, and could undertake its own public offering here 12 to 24 months.
