Foxconn looks to ramp up workforce on higher Apple orders, key licenceApple has got the government’s clearance for denotifying 40 acres inside Foxconn plant premises near Chennai, which would allow the company...
19 Apr, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Foxconn set to reopen its iPhone plant in Chennai on January 12The plant which makes Apple iPhones, was shut down last month after a food poisoning incident affected 156 women workers. Apple had placed ...
10 Jan, 2022, 05.37 PM IST
Foxconn, Apple say worker dorms for India iPhone plant don't meet required standardsEarlier this month, protests erupted after more than 250 women who work at the Foxconn plant that makes iPhones in Sriperumbudur town, near...
29 Dec, 2021, 11.22 AM IST
Foxconn plant near Chennai to stay shut this week after protestsPolice on Monday released dozens of those detained for blocking a key highway in protest after the food poisoning incident last week at the...
21 Dec, 2021, 01.49 PM IST
Duty sop in GST holds key to Foxconn's Nokia unit takeoverAs GST will subsume all state taxes, retention of the duty differential becomes key for Foxconn to survive, expand in India
18 Nov, 2016, 01.14 PM IST
Foxconn, Nokia agree to revive Chennai plantIn its first formal communication to governt on the issue, Foxconn proposed to convert the Nokia plant into a global manufacturing hub for ...
04 Oct, 2016, 09.22 AM IST
Foxconn wants to keep off Nokia's legal, financial issuesFor fructifying a deal with Foxconn, Nokia will need to reach out to the Indian government, specifically the departments of revenue, income...
14 Jul, 2016, 06.32 AM IST
Foxconn hires ex-staff of Nokia Chennai plant for AP unitThe company has also hired most of around 3,000 staff at Nokia's facility at Sriperumbudur where production was suspended last year after a...
12 Jul, 2016, 07.46 PM IST
Foxconn to revive Sriperumbudur manufacturing hub in Tamil NaduThe electronics manufacturing hub of Sriperumbudur, which was likened to Shenzhen in China during its peak is all set for a redux.
19 Aug, 2015, 12.06 PM IST
Foxconn shuts Sriperumbudur unit after severance dealThe Taiwan-based company suspended operations from December 22, 2014, at its facility located in Nokia Special Economic Zone, following exi...
16 Feb, 2015, 02.31 PM IST
Foxconn workers in Tamil Nadu arrested againPolice held about 235 workers at the gates of the Nokia Telecom SEZ, which also accommodates the phone-part making unit of the Taiwanese su...
05 Jan, 2015, 05.46 PM IST
Foxconn Chennai plant suspends operation: Workers unionCompany had declared a holiday today and tomorrow ahead of its proposed suspension of operations from December 24 and this agitated the emp...
22 Dec, 2014, 07.58 PM IST
Workers threaten to launch protest if Foxconn stops operationsThe Union said that though majority of products manufactured was supplied to Nokia, the plant has also been serving companies like Nokia Si...
21 Dec, 2014, 03.51 PM IST
Foxconn to suspend operations at Chennai plantFoxconn will suspend operations at its facility near here from December 24, a development than will affect 1,700 workers and comes after it...
12 Dec, 2014, 08.15 PM IST
Foxconn halts Tamil Nadu operations over Nokia shutdownThe Foxconn plant was set up with the express intent to supply to Nokia and the facility cannot used for making smartphone components.
12 Dec, 2014, 01.58 AM IST
With plans to invest $2 billion in India, iPhone maker Foxconn keen on Nokia's Chennai plantThe telecom & IT ministry has proposed that Nokia be allowed to sell the plant, frozen in a tax dispute, without passing on the legal liabi...
10 Dec, 2014, 09.56 AM IST
How trade unions drove away Apple from ChennaiPoor industrial relations, trade union activism forced Foxconn, contract manufacturer for Apple, to locate its iPhone and iPad production i...
17 Oct, 2014, 11.02 AM IST