Heritage

Our heritage helps us understand and solve your challenges.

Our heritage helps us understand and solve our customers’ challenges. Originating as “SciSys” and then “Saitek” we were a global category leader in consumer electronics. Since 2007 we have been solely focused as an EMS company partnering with high-quality OEM companies.

Given our focus on production quality, we decided to bring our production in-house and established our own electronics manufacturing facility. Eventually, because we understood so clearly what electronics businesses need to scale, we specialised as a pure EMS company and divested the Saitek branded products business.

Today we power our customers’ success – from original design and development to extensive engineering and manufacturing capabilities.

1979

Ryder was founded by our Chairman, Eric Winkler, in Hong Kong to design & build its own branded microprocessor products.

1984

We become the leader in chess computers with the Kasparov series and start in-house manufacturing in Hong Kong.

1991

We established our wholly-owned coastal plant in Shenzhen, with facilities designed to meet high standards in precision and quality.

1994

Our experience and capabilities lead us to win our first external customer for EMS contract manufacturing.

2007

Selling our branded product division, Ryder becomes a pure-play EMS specialist.

2013

We make a major investment and open a second mainland Chinese factory. This wholly-owned inland plant in Xinfeng, Jiangxi Province, launches with a ‘smart green design’.

2014

Ryder’s investment in continuous development leads to the establishment of scientific plastic injection capabilities.

2019

We set new standards with our comprehensive automation launch.

2021

We set up our Advanced Manufacturing Hub in our Shenzhen facility.  It creates and tests the latest in EMS innovation before they are rolled out across our other factories.

2024

Our global customer base is reflected with our own international expansion, as we open our wholly-owned facility in Vietnam, near Ho Chi Minh City.