Tata Group Unit Starts iPhone Manufacturing in New Factory, Apple, Macbook

The manufacturing of Apple’s iPhone has increased rapidly in the last few years in the country. Manufacturing of iPhones has been started at Hosur’s new factory in Tata Electronics’s Tata Electronics Tata Electronics. China has a major stake in manufacturing iPhones. However, Apple plans to increase the manufacturing of iPhones in India to avoid heavy tariffs on imports from China from China. In this factory of Tata Electronics, old models of iPhone will be made on a assembly line. A report by Reuters quoted the sources who are aware of this that Apple’s biggest contract manufacturer FoxConn’s manufacturing will soon be started in the factory being built near Bengaluru in Karnataka in Karnataka. In this factory, 300-500 units of iPhone can be made every hour. It will have assembling iPhone 16 and 16E. About 50,000 jobs are expected to be received when this factory reaches the entire capacity.

In this regard, Tata Electronics, Apple and Foxconn did not answer the request sent for comments. China holds more than 75 percent stake in the manufacturing of iPhones. Foxcony in India has increased to about Rs 1.7 lakh crore in the last financial year. The number of workers of Foxconn has increased by 65 percent. Foxconn has around 80,000 workers in the country. This Taiwan company is the largest manufacturer of iPhones.

Recently, Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had said that the iPhone’s share in smartphones exports from the country has been around Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the last financial year. He had said that guidelines will be released in the next few weeks for the government’s electronics components scheme of Rs 22,919 crore. This year, Foxconn plans to assemble about three million units of iPhone. In this year’s budget, Foxconn can benefit from the announcement of tax exemption on the import of smartphone parts. Apple plans to start manufacturing airpods, macbook and iPad in the country. Manufacturing airpods for export at Foxconn’s Hyderabad plant may be started soon.