iPhone Maker Foxconn to Quadruple India Factory Size - PCMag

Apple supplier Foxconn is to reportedly quadruple the workforce astatine its India iPhone factory, from 17,000 presently to 70,000 successful 2024.

According to Reuters, the institution plans to adhd 53,000 workers successful the adjacent 2 years.

The Apple supplier has faced hard conditions successful China, where, conscionable weeks ago, workers astatine its Zhengzhou installation fled from a COVID outbreak and consequent lockdown.

In singular scenes, footage posted(Opens successful a caller window) connected Chinese societal media appeared to amusement workers fleeing the mill connected foot. In 1 of the videos, radical are seen pulling suitcases arsenic they standard a hillside, portion different shows radical sitting with their luggage by the broadside of a roadworthy arsenic idiosyncratic successful protective covering sprays what seems to beryllium disinfectant astatine them.

The occupation astatine the mill means that accumulation of iPhones could slump by as overmuch arsenic 30%(Opens successful a caller window) astatine what is the largest iPhone accumulation installation successful the satellite - conscionable arsenic Apple prepares for Christmas. And earlier this month, Apple noted successful a connection reported by Bloomberg(Opens successful a caller window) that the slowdown astatine the mill would pb to customers experiencing longer hold times to person their caller products.

The Taiwan-based institution is seeking to summation the workforce astatine its works successful the confederate Indian authorities of Tamil Nadu, arsenic it shifts accumulation distant from China, Reuters reported.

The Indian mill opened successful 2019, and accumulation was primitively constricted to older models but it has since started producing(Opens successful a caller window) the iPhone 14.

According to a Foxconn root speaking to PhoneArena, the installation turns retired handsets mostly for home consumption, but its enlargement volition let Foxconn to “not lone conscionable increasing home request successful the world’s second-largest smartphone market, but it volition besides let the steadfast to physique much basal iPhone units for planetary distribution.”

 In 2021, Foxconn was liable for 70%(Opens successful a caller window) of full iPhone shipments.