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Beaver THE OAKVILLE Voted Ontario's Top Newspaper Four Years in a Row - 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 www.carstaroakville.com www.dentistoakville.com 905-8457579 905-847 -2595 2212 Wyecroft Rd. 547 Trafalgar Rd. 905-842-6030 www.brantflorist.com/ob Dawson and MacDougall team up again SPORTS 905.639.7001 HALTON TRANSMISSION (905) 559 SPEERS ROAD, UNIT #3 842-0725 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 48 No. 40 "USING COMMUNICATION TO BUILD BETTER COMMUNITIES" THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010 48 Pages $1.00 (plus GST) Omron jobs moving south Company blames ongoing automotive industry problems By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER NEW HEALTH TECHNOLOGY: Dr. Andrew Zawadowski holds up the Vscan in front of a traditional ultra sound machine at Core Cardiology on Friday morning. Core Cardiology is the first medical centre in Canada to receive the new portable ultrasound device about the size of a smartphone. First in Canada for Oakville health centre By Jill Kwasniak SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Hand-held ultrasound scanner similar to iPod has similar features of an iPod. "We are the first confirmed order not just in Canada, but also in Central and South America," said Dr. Andrew Zawadowski of Core Cardiology. Zawadowski first saw the unit at a scientific meeting in Barcelona. See Pocket page 3 Oakville's Core Cardiology became the first Canadian health centre to receive the Vscan, a hand-held ultrasound unit that Approximately 350 employees of Omron Dualtec Automotive Electronics Inc., will be out of work next year when the manufacturing section of the auto components producer ceases production in March 2011 and moves to St. Charles, Illinois. In an interview with the Oakville Beaver, Dawn Hoffman, Omron human resources "They've been doing director for the everything they can to Americas, said the try and keep the cost company intends to keep its design down and to try and stay, and development but everything has been group, engineering against us on a business group and side." advanced purchasing group in Dawn Hoffman, Omron Oakville, though human resources director not at the current for the Americas 2440 Winston Park Dr. location. Approximately 50 employees make up the group that will remain. The move, which will see the jobs from the Oakville facility consolidated with an existing Omron facility in St. Charles, Illinois, is being attributed to the ongoing issues facing the automotive industry including ongoing financial losses due to a strong Canadian dollar, lower North American sales projections and excess manufacturing capacity in North America. Hoffman also said that Omron neither asked for nor was given any government incentives to take work to the United States. See Omron page 2 905.338.1288 905.339.8686 243 SPEERS ROAD, OAKVILLE · BETWEEN DORVAL & KERR IN THE OAKVILLE HOME IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT