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2023: Sale of iPhone plant to Tata Group
On October 27, 2023, Deputy Minister information technology India Rajeev Chandrasekhar announced that the country's largest company Tata would be engaged in production. smartphones iPhone It is expected that such devices will be supplied both to the domestic and international markets.
The release will be launched at the Indian plant of the Taiwanese company Wistron, which is Apple's contract manufacturer. Wistron's board of directors approved the sale of the Wistron InfoComm Manufacturing India Private Limited facility to Tata Electronics Private Limited. The transaction amount is approximately $125 million. Thus, Tata will become the first Indian company to manufacture iPhone smartphones at a factory domestically.
 | In just two and a half years (from the announcement of the purchase of the plant), Tata Group will begin producing iPhones in India for domestic and global markets. Congratulations to the Tata team for taking over Wistron's manufacturing operations. The Indian government fully supports the growth of global Indian electronics manufacturing companies, notes Chandrasekhar. |  |
Apple sees India as one of its main growth drivers in the current macroeconomic situation. Deteriorating relations between the United States and China are forcing the American company to revise the business model, transferring part of production from China to other countries. At the same time, India is attractive to Apple both in terms of affordable labor and in terms of the huge potential of the local consumer market. Chandrasekhar added that the deal between Wistron and Tata will help build a global supply chain for high-tech products from India involving local electronics manufacturers.[1]
2020
India iPhone assembly plant debacle by protesting employees
In mid-December 2020, workers at the Wistron factory in India, where smartphones of the iPhone SE are assembled, staged an aggressive strike in protest against wage cuts. Dissatisfied beat the windows of the building, set fire to cars.
During the shift, workers after learning of wage cuts damaged offices, some furniture and factory equipment, The Indian Express reported. The actions of workers led to the collapse of the external windows and walls of the building, damaged parked cars.
The protest was attended by 2 thousand employees of the iPhone factory, which is located in the city of Narsapur. It is known that Wistron was focused on expansion, hiring new employees. Under the terms of the contract, the engineer's salary should be 21 thousand rupees, but later it turned out that the employee can count on no more than 16 thousand rupees.
In December, due to the availability of days off, according to the company's estimates, an employee can receive only about 12 thousand rupees. Another factor that affects the amount of wages turned out to be the requirement to have an engineering education. For workers without a document, a salary of 8 thousand rupees per month is laid.
Moreover, the company transferred 500 rupees (about $6.8) to all employees and announced that there would be no payments until the New Year. Commenting on the defeat at the plant, local police said:
| | Employees demanded the payment of expected wages for several months and met with representatives of the human resources department. After that, several employees attacked the office and damaged office space and furniture. | |
After a large-scale riot, the enterprise had to be stopped, workers not only damaged property, but also carried away some devices and parts.[2]
Selling the iPhone assembly business
In July 2020, Luxshare Precision Industry Co. acquires the manufacturing business iPhone of Wistron Corp. China in a $472 million deal, potentially becoming the first mainland company to China win a key assembly site Apple for Inc. devices during a time of trade instability with. USA
Taiwan's Wistron at the time, one of three contract manufacturers that are assembling Apple's iPhones, said in July 17 that it had agreed to sell two subsidiaries in eastern China for 3.3 billion yuan in Luxshare. One of these units, located in Kunshan, is Wistron's only iPhone manufacturing site.
2018: Obtaining gold from electronics waste
In 2018, Dell, together with its Taiwanese ODM partner Wistron, began to extract gold from electronics waste and use the resulting precious metal to produce new products. Thus, Dell has expanded the material reuse program in force since 2012, under which the company recycled plastic from expired electronics in order to make new devices from it.
Since the beginning of 2018, Dell has been using secondary gold derived from recycled motherboards to launch Latitude 5285 convertible laptops aimed at business users, according to Taiwan's DigiTimes.
The process of recycling electronic garbage takes place in two stages. At the first, electronic scrap is delivered for initial disassembly to the Wistron Green Tech enterprise in Texas,. USA In the same place, precious metals, including gold, silver and copper, are chemically extracted from their expired boards, SH Huang, president of Wistron Advanced Materials, told the publication. According to him, over the year the plant is able to process about 13 thousand tons of electronic scrap coming from the United States and countries. Europe
At the second stage, plastic elements are sent for processing to the PRC, to the Wistron Advanced Materials enterprise in Kunshan. Then the new plastic material obtained from the recyclable material comes to Dell ODM partners.
As of October 2018, recycled plastic is being used to produce 152 Dell product units. The company aims to use 100 million pounds (over 45 thousand tons) of recycled plastic and other environmentally friendly materials by 2020. Dell also plans to increase the use of recycled materials in production and master new materials in the next 10 years.[3]
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