Foxconn to invest $194mln in new plant in India’s Tamil Nadu
Timilehin Adejumobi
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Taiwan’s Foxconn has signed a deal with Tamil Nadu to invest 16 billion rupees ($194 million) in a new electronic components manufacturing facility that will create 6,000 jobs, the government of the southern Indian state said on Monday.
The Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) facility will be built in the Kancheepuram district near the state capital of Chennai, a state government source said on condition of anonymity as details are not yet public.
It will be separate from the sprawling campus near Chennai where Foxconn assembles Apple’s iPhones, they added.
“This is a major achievement for the state,” Tamil Nadu Minister for Industries TRB Rajaa said in a statement, after Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and other representatives met with state officials including its chief minister.
Liu told reporters in Tamil Nadu that Foxconn currently employs about 40,000 workers in its facility near Chennai.
Foxconn has plans to quadruple the workforce at its Tamil Nadu iPhone factory by late 2024 to spread its bets beyond China, Reuters reported last year.
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