With tepid manufacturing climate for engineering manufacturing services, Foxconn — world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer — has readied plans to make LCD panels for laptops and tablet computers for Sony.
Foxconn, it is learnt, will set up an assembly line for Sony in Irrungattukottai to make LCD panels. “The size and scope of investments planned is nothing substantial, but will help arrest the poor image the corridor has been dumped with after Nokia’s exit,” sources said. While it is only an assembly plant with key components shipped in from Taiwan, this unit could employ 150 persons.
A detailed questionnaire to Foxconn went unanswered.
Foxconn is not new to Sriperumbudur. It had three mobile phone and parts manufacturing units in the region making phones for Nokia. It shut down all its plants, the last of which was closed on February 10.
