Apple’s supplier Jabil will set up a factory in Tamil Nadu, there will be an investment of Rs 2,000 crore.
Apple’s supplier Jabil, which makes the worldwide popular iPhone, plans to set up an electronics manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu. For this, an agreement has been made with the state government. An investment of Rs 2,000 crore will be made in this plant. This will create about 5,000 employment opportunities.
This agreement has been signed during the visit of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin to America. The state government has signed agreements with American companies involving investment of more than Rs 2,600 crore. Providing electronics manufacturing services and solutions, Jabil’s clients include major companies like Apple, Cisco, HP and Dell. It has manufacturing units in India, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, Mexico and China.
Apart from this, the state government has also signed an agreement with Rockwell Automation, one of the biggest companies in industrial automation and digital transformation. Apple’s iPhone 16 series of premium smartphones, launched earlier this week, can be assembled in the country for the first time. Apple has planned to shift a large part of its manufacturing to China. Under this scheme, the manufacturing of the company’s smartphones can be increased in India.
Apple has started training workers in a new manufacturing process in its factories. The company started manufacturing in the country in 2017 with iPhone SE. After this, iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 were also made in the country. According to Bloomberg report, manufacturing of iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will be important for Apple. This will be the first time that the company will manufacture its iPhone Pro models outside China. In China, these smartphones are manufactured by Apple’s contract manufacturers Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron. The iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus of the iPhone 15 series introduced last year were also manufactured in India. In recent years, Apple has increased its manufacturing outside China. The company had received strong demand for the premium models of the iPhone 15 series. Apple’s new smartphone series has new features and capture button.
