Increase the production capacity outside China to expand to Southeast Asia

(Taipei Bloomberg) Apple's two foundries Foxconn and Heshuo will include Southeast Asia into this year's expansion plan, showing that the world's major contract electronics manufacturers will continue to increase production capacity outside mainland China to reduce geographical politics andEconomic risk.

Liu Yangwei, the chairman of Hon Hai Precision, Fujikang's parent company, said on Sunday (January 15) at a company event: "We will continue to expand the scale in mainland China, the Americas and Southeast Asia."

Foxconn does not explain which country and Shuo Shuo intends to increase production in Indonesia, Vietnam

However, Foxconn does not specify which Southeast Asian countries are investing in Southeast Asian countries.

Foxconn's competitors and scholar executives also disclosed on the same day that the company will allocate 300 million US dollars to $ 350 million (about S $ 395 million to $ 461 million) this year for capital for capitalSome of them will be used to expand the capacity of Southeast Asia.Deng Guoyan, CEO of Heduke, said: "The diversified supply chain is a continuous trend."

Foxconn and Hutchison in addition to assembling the production of iPhone for Apple in mainland China, they also produce iPhone in India.Apple also produces peripheral products in Vietnam, such as wireless headphones AirPods.

Cheng Jianzhong, deputy chairman of Heduke, said that the company plans to increase production capacity in Vietnam and Indonesia.Although the company has factories in these two places, these factories have not produced Apple products.

During the President of the United States, the U.S. government levies high tariffs on some Chinese imported goods, prompting major contract electronics manufacturers to start vigorously expanding its manufacturing business outside China.After the outbreak of the crown disease, the Chinese government has implemented long -term blockade measures, causing the supply chain to be chaotic, and some suppliers have accelerated the pace of diversification.

Foxconn's business in China is also affected by the epidemic.Heshuo was temporarily suspended. Foxconn was located in the Zhengzhou factory area to launch violent protests due to a large number of employees, disturbing the operation of the main manufacturer of this iPhone. As a result, Apple reminded that the market shipments may be lower than expected.