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iPhone City Is Back at 90% Capacity After Covid Turmoil Subsides
3Jan By adminNo Comments
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iPhone City Is Back at 90% Capacity After Covid Turmoil Subsides

[ad_1] Foxconn Technology Group has brought the world’s largest iPhone plant to about 90% of anticipated peak capacity. Foxconn Technology Group has brought the world's largest iPhone plant to about 90% of anticipated peak capacity, suggesting Apple Inc.'s biggest main production partner has secured enough workers despite a Covid resurgence and recent staff upheaval. Foxconn's plant in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou is now operating with roughly 200,000 staff, the official Henan Daily reported, citing Foxconn executive Vic Wang. That is about the normal staffing level, based on previous reports. As of Dec. 30, the plant was shipping at 90% of the peak capacity forecast at the start of last year, the representative said. The factory's speedy bounce-back bodes well for produ...
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Shock move! Apple plans to shift production out of China
4Dec By adminNo Comments
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Shock move! Apple plans to shift production out of China

[ad_1] According to the Wall Street Journal, the people involved in the discussions said that Apple is also looking to reduce the dependence on Taiwanese assemblers. Apple, in recent weeks, is accelerating its plans to shift some of its production outside China and telling suppliers to plan more for assembling the product elsewhere in Asia, particularly India and Vietnam. According to the Wall Street Journal, the people involved in the discussions said that Apple is also looking to reduce the dependence on Taiwanese assemblers led by the Foxconn Technology Group. The recent turmoil at China's Zhengzhou 'iPhone City' plant propels Apple to shift its production. In China, Zhengzhou has as many as 300,000 workers working at a factory run by Foxconn to make iPhones and other Apple pr...
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China Adjusts Covid Restrictions in City With IPhone Plant
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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China Adjusts Covid Restrictions in City With IPhone Plant

[ad_1] The Chinese city of Zhengzhou shuttered hundreds of buildings and apartment blocks hours after lifting broader lockdown measures. The Chinese city of Zhengzhou shuttered hundreds of buildings and apartment blocks hours after lifting broader lockdown measures, as officials strive to make their Covid controls more targeted in line with Beijing's directives. The city, home to Apple Inc.'s largest manufacturing site in China, said late Tuesday that it was lifting a lockdown of its main urban areas put in place five days ago as Covid cases climbed. Authorities then issued a lengthy list of buildings that would be declared high risk spanning the greater Zhengzhou region, which means they will continue to be subject to lockdown-style curbs.  The shift comes after China's top health of...
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China’s ‘iPhone City’ Sends 870 Workers Away Without Notice
27Nov By adminNo Comments
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China’s ‘iPhone City’ Sends 870 Workers Away Without Notice

[ad_1] Without giving any advance notice about the measure to curb Covid transmission, China’s Zhengzhou relocated 870 iPhone workers. China's Zhengzhou — the capital of Henan province known as “iPhone City” — relocated 870 workers to a hub about 230 miles away in a neighboring province, without giving them any advance notice about the measure to curb Covid transmission.The workers were transported to Xuzhou in Jiangsu province early Friday “without prior communications,” the city's authorities said in a statement Saturday on its official WeChat account. It didn't say whether any of the people tested positive. Zhengzhou, home to Apple Inc.'s largest iPhone manufacturing site, shot to global prominence after videos emerged on social media showing hundreds of workers in violent clashes ...
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China’s ‘iPhone city’ under Covid lockdown after violent clashes
25Nov By adminNo Comments
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China’s ‘iPhone city’ under Covid lockdown after violent clashes

[ad_1] Six million people were on Friday under Covid lockdown in a Chinese city home to the world's largest iPhone factory, after clashes between police and workers furious over pay. Authorities have ordered residents of eight districts in Zhengzhou, in the central province of Henan, not to leave the area for the next five days, setting up barriers around "high-risk" apartment buildings and checkpoints to restrict travel. There have been only a handful of coronavirus cases in the city but under China's zero-Covid policy even tiny outbreaks can spark gruelling lockdowns, travel restrictions and mass testing. The lockdown in Zhengzhou follows protests by hundreds of employees over conditions and pay at Foxconn's vast iPhone factory on the outskirts of the city, with images of fres...
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China’s ‘iPhone city’ tightens Covid rules after violent protests
24Nov By adminNo Comments
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China’s ‘iPhone city’ tightens Covid rules after violent protests

[ad_1] City centre residents cannot leave the area unless they have a negative Covid test and permission from local authorities, and are advised not to leave their homes "unless necessary". China has ordered six million people into lockdown in a city where violent protests broke out at an iPhone factory over Covid isolation policies and working conditions.Hundreds of workers took to the streets around the vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou on Wednesday, confronting hazmat-clad personnel wielding batons in a rare display of public anger in China. In the wake of the unrest, Zhengzhou authorities ordered mass testing and an effective lockdown for several districts in the central Chinese city starting Friday. City centre residents cannot leave the area unless they have a negative Covid test...
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Covid Surge Tempers Hopes ‘iPhone City’ Lockdown Will Lift Soon
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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Covid Surge Tempers Hopes ‘iPhone City’ Lockdown Will Lift Soon

[ad_1] Covid cases have more than doubled in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, dampening hopes that authorities will lift a lockdown of the area surrounding the world’s largest iPhone factory. (Bloomberg) -- Covid cases have more than doubled in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, dampening hopes that authorities will lift a lockdown of the area surrounding the world's largest iPhone factory. A seven-day lockdown of the Airport Economy Zone, which houses Apple Inc.'s global iPhone production base, expires noon Wednesday. The local government may extend those curbs -- which curtail the flow of everything but essential goods and personnel -- depending on the progress of a local outbreak. Covid cases across the city jumped to 733 as of Monday from 297 the previous day. An ex...
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