Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from the line of Jim Suva with Citi. Jim Suva with Citi, your line is open. Please go ahead with your question.
Jim Suva - Citi
Jure, if you could maybe give us a little more details about as you look forward, coming out of this recession, what type of margins are you seeing in your components business? Is that kind of where we should look to see the most incremental throughput for margin leverage? And I believe you laid out some goals for operating margins, I believe it is close to 6%, kind of what has to happen for us to get to that milestone?
Jure Sola
First of all, let me break this exactly the way. First of all, the margin of component business, of course, a lot higher than our results today. The component performance, even the quarter that we just finished has a less margins for components overall on average are less than our corporate average. Going forward, we expect our component margins to continue to improve and to be a lot higher than our corporate margins.
If you look at our other key business that we have such as our traditional EMS business, that business even during the tough times, our margins held pretty well. I think that the main reason there because I think taking the costs out and getting out of the certain customers that we were not making a lot of money in the past, so we really cleaned up a lot of stuff.
So we believe that our EMS margins are in a pretty good shape today and we do expect even to improve those. Because we do have a few plants around the world that can do better job than what the results are today. So back to overall goal for us, as the revenue goes up, and we get the revenue, the run rate between $1.8 billion and $2 billion, assuming that all of the things go in the right direction, I think we get the gross margins up to a 10-plus percent. At that level, we should have our operating margin at six-plus percent. So, our longer term goal, yes, the model of six-plus percent.
Operator
Our next question comes from the line of William Stein with Credit Suisse.
William Stein - Credit Suisse
Just to try to help us model that progression eventually up to 6%, we certainly assume that as the revenues progress, from this low level, you get a better contribution margin than typical, and then eventually, it's going to track closer to the aggregate operating margin.
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