Foxconn Starts Manufacturing Smartphones in India For China's Xiaomi Corp. & US's InFocus Inc.

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Foxconn Starts Manufacturing Smartphones in India Amid Modi Push​

Foxconn Technology Group has started making and shipping smartphones for China’s Xiaomi and US's InFocus at its new plant in Andhra Pradesh. ​

Foxconn Technology Group started making its first smartphones in India as part of the Taiwanese company’s plan to expand in the South Asian nation.

Production has started in Andhra Pradesh state in the nation’s south east, Foxconn spokesman Louis Woo said, declining to comment further. Models for clients Xiaomi Corp. and InFocus Inc. have started shipping from a facility in Sri City according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because it’s not been officially announced.

Foxconn is looking to expand in India amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s drive to boost manufacturing in Asia’s third-largest economy. Billionaire chairman Terry Gou, whose business empire gets half its revenue from Apple Inc., expects to open as many as 12 factories and create one million jobs in India by 2020, Foxconn said in a statement citing Gou.

FIH Mobile Ltd., Foxconn’s phone manufacturing unit, expects to have multiple manufacturing sites in India, with none employing more than 10,000 people, the company said in May. FIH Mobile said at the time the first India-made phone would be manufactured by the end of the year.

Xiaomi, China’s largest smartphone maker and FIH’s largest customer, has plans to manufacture in India through a partner and will probably make an announcement about its plans there in the next few months, Hugo Barra, vice president of Xiaomi’s global operations, said in an interview this month.

The Sri City unit - called Rising Star - will make about 10,000 phones a day, which is fairly small compared to Foxconn's much larger units in China. It has been set up at an investment of Rs 77 crore.

A Xiaomi spokeswoman declined to comment on India production. InFocus public relations representatives in Taipei didn’t return calls or an e-mail seeking comment.

Source:- Foxconn Starts Manufacturing Smartphones in India Amid Modi Push - Bloomberg Business
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Make in India bearing fruit.

 

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The Sri City unit - called Rising Star - will make about 10,000 phones a day, which is fairly small compared to Foxconn's much larger units in China. It has been set up at an investment of Rs 77 crore.


Source:- Foxconn Starts Manufacturing Smartphones in India Amid Modi Push - Bloomberg Business
@Providence

with an investment of 77 cr one can't establisgh a manufacturing plant.. its more like an assembly plant..

 

[Ryuzaki]

with an investment of 77 cr one can't establisgh a manufacturing plant.. its more like an assembly plant..

all mobile plants in India are assembly plants...many core components are directly imported from China

 

[itachiii]

all mobile plants in India are assembly plants...many core components are directly imported from China

yess.. but then companies like micromax are investing huge amounts in order to establish there plants.. if not nw atleast 2-3 yrs later they might start manufacturing there phones in those plant.

 

[TimeTraveller]

Nice.....

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

with an investment of 77 cr one can't establisgh a manufacturing plant.. its more like an assembly plant..

all mobile plants in India are assembly plants...many core components are directly imported from China

The only legitimate smartphone "manufacturing" plant is Nokia India Plant based in Chennai - well capable of making 5G enabled devices as well apart from currently manufactured 4G LTE technology devices - Nokia's largest plant outside Europe - recently crossed two million mark.

Nokia India Unit Gears Up For 5G Network - CXOtoday.com
Nokia Networks' Chennai factory reaches two million production milestone | Nokia

 

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Foxconn to reportedly manufacture Lumia devices in India

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The Times of India reports that Microsoft is closing in on an agreement that will have its smartphones rolling out of Foxconn's factory in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh.

Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer, makes phones for top global brands like Apple, as well as the Nokia N1 tablet, and has been revving its plans in India recently. Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn Technology Group, had recently visited India and made a statement that the company will commit $2 billion to set up 10-12 factories across the country with initial plans for Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.

The report claims multiple sources have confirmed that the Foxconn plant will produce two variants of Microsoft smartphones for India. The Indian market has so far been catered to from factories in China, Vietnam, and Finland.

The new facility, named Rising Star, is a rented building formerly in manufacturing hub Sri City, with over 100 employees. The INR 770 million facility is being used to put together smartphones for Xiaomi and another Foxconn client, InFocus.

In India, several smartphone brands, including domestic handset makers, are increasingly focusing on assembling mobile phones locally instead of importing finished goods from China, after India hiked excise duty up to 12.5 per cent to benefit domestic manufacturers in this year's union budget.

Source:- Foxconn to reportedly manufacture Lumia devices in India | Windows Central

 

[Providence]

It doesn't take much to relocate some assembly plant to India. Trust me. I have nothing against India but this don't indicate any efficiency in business climate.