LONDON, Oct. 2 ??” Jabil Circuit Inc., a US electronic manufacturing services provider, is next year to build a second plant in Ukraine that could eventually employ 1,500 people, EE Times reported Monday.

Jabil, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, already has an assembly and manufacturing operation in the Special Economic Zone in Uzhggorod, which was opened in 2004 and now employs 900. The company said the second plant is needed "to accommodate growing demand for electronic manufacturing services in the region."