{"id":27832,"date":"2010-12-03T03:49:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T01:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=27832"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:57:18","slug":"electronics-giant-opens-plant-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/03\/electronics-giant-opens-plant-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics giant opens plant in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISTANBUL – Anatolia News Agency<\/p>\n

Foxconn says it will employ around 2,000 people at its \u00c7orlu facility.<\/p>\n

Foxconn, a leading Taiwanese electronic components manufacturer, will start production in Turkey for U.S.-based HP, executives announced at a press meeting Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Foxconn says it will employ around 2,000 people at its \u00c7orlu facility.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With an investment of $60 million Foxconn will produce desktop computers for HP in \u00c7orlu, in Turkey\u2019s northwestern province of Tekirdag, in 2011, Director General of HP Turkey Serdar Ur\u00e7ar said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Foxconn has recently been shaken by a string of suicides at its Chinese\u00a0factories, attracting bad press for the normally publicity-shy company.<\/p>\n

Ur\u00e7ar said HP had brought its global supply chain to Turkey and the factory in \u00c7orlu would be a base for exporting desktop computers from Turkey to Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n

Foxconn Turkey Director General Tuna Karde\u015f said the reason Turkey was chosen as the location for the investment was because Turkey has an experienced and qualified workforce.<\/p>\n

“We plan to start mass production in the second half of January,” Karde\u015f said.<\/p>\n

Karde\u015f said the company aimed to produce between 250,000 and 300,000 desktop computers for HP by the last quarter of 2011 and forecast a turnover of between $1 billion and $1.5 billion in 2012.<\/p>\n

HP computer sales in Turkey were up 18.5 percent year-on-year in 2009. \u00a0The company expects this rate to be around 6 percent or 7 percent by the end of 2010.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year the company announced it would employ 2,000 people at its \u00c7orlu facility.<\/p>\n

The latest suicide \u2013 the 12th this year \u2013 marring the company occurred Aug. 4 when a 22-year-old woman jumped from her factory dormitory in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu. The group raised workers’ wages and installed safety nets on buildings to catch would-be suicides following the deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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