Tracing Apple's Production Plans...
Tata Group is planning to build one of India's biggest iPhone assembly plants, tapping Apple Inc.'s ambitions to increase manufacturing in the South Asian part now.
Tata is all set to construct the factory in Hosur in the southern Tamil Nadu state, according to people with knowledge of the concern.
The facility will likely have about 20 assembly lines and employ 50,000 workers within two years, according to the people.
The goal is for the site to be operational in 12 to 18 months.
The plant would bolster Apple's efforts to localize its supply chain and strengthen its partnership with Tata, which already has an iPhone factory it acquired from Wistron Corp. in the neighboring Karnataka state.
Apple is diversifying its operations away from China by working with assembly and component manufacturing partners in India, Thailand, Malaysia and elsewhere.
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