Exclusive: Foxconn woes could hit at least 30% of iPhone Nov shipments from China plant – source - WHTC

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Production of Apple Inc’s iPhones could slump by astatine slightest 30% astatine Foxconn’s mill successful China’s metropolis of Zhengzhou aft idiosyncratic unrest disrupted operations, a idiosyncratic with nonstop cognition of the substance told Reuters connected Friday.

The estimation was an upward revision of an October interior forecast for accumulation interaction of up to 30% astatine the world’s largest iPhone factory, said the source, who sought anonymity arsenic the accusation was private. Following this week’s bout of idiosyncratic unrest astatine the plant, the root added, it was “impossible” for the institution to resume afloat accumulation by the extremity of the period – a deadline it had acceptable internally earlier Wednesday’s question of protests.

Foxconn declined to comment.

(Reporting by Yimou Lee and Taipei newsroom; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)