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Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (trading as Foxconn) is a multinational electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. It is the world's largest maker of electronic components.[3][4]

Foxconn is primarily an original design manufacturer and its clients include American, European and Japanese companies. Notable products which the company manufactures include the iPad,[5] iPhone,[6] Kindle, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. It is the largest exporter in Greater China and the largest private-sector employer in China.[7][8]

Foxconn has been involved in several controversies, mostly relating to how it manages employees in China, where it is the largest private employer.[9] In 2012, the Fair Labor Association was hired by Apple to audit working conditions at Foxconn.[10]

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History

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. was founded in 1974 as a manufacturer of electrical components (notably electrical connectors for computer components,[6] which found use in the Atari 2600).[11] Foxconn originated as a trade name of Hon Hai, later becoming a Hon Hai subsidiary.[6]

In 2001 Intel concentrated on its core competency of chip making and began using Chinese contract manufacturers such as Foxconn to make Intel-branded motherboards.[12] Hon Hai's first manufacturing plant in mainland China opened in Longhua, Shenzhen, in 1988.[6]

In November 2007 Foxconn announced plans to build a new US$500 million plant in Huizhou, southern China.[13]

In March 2012 Foxconn agreed to acquire a 10 percent stake in the Japanese electronics company Sharp Corporation for US$806 million, and to purchase up to 50 percent of the LCD displays produced at Sharp's plant in Sakai, Japan.[14]

Operations

Foxconn has factories in Asia, Europe and Latin America, which together assemble around 40 percent of consumer electronics products in the world.[15]

China

Workers at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen

Foxconn has 13 factories in nine Chinese cities, more than in any other country.[16]

Foxconn's largest factory worldwide is in Longhua, Shenzhen, where hundreds of thousands of workers (varying counts include 230,000,[15] 300,000,[17] and 450,000[18]) are employed at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a walled campus[6] sometimes referred to as "Foxconn City"[19] or "iPod City".[20] Covering about 1.16 square miles (3 square km),[21] it includes 15 factories,[19] worker dormitories, a swimming pool,[22] a fire brigade,[6] its own television network (Foxconn TV),[6] and a city centre with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore and hospital.[6] While some workers live in surrounding towns and villages, others live and work inside the complex;[23] a quarter of the employees live in the dormitories, and many of them work 12-hour days for 6 days each week.[15]

Another of Foxconn's factory 'cites' is Zhengzhou Technology Park in Henan province where it is reported 120,000 employees work. [24]

Foxconn continues to expand and planned factory sites include at Chengdu in Sichuan province and Wuhan in Hubei province.[16]

Apple contracts with Chinese industry such as Foxconn because it has easy access to the Chinese supply chain[15] within a well developed industrial cluster.[25] In addition, employees at overseas companies are thought to be more flexible, diligent, and skilled than American workers.[15]

Brazil

All company facilities in South America are located in Brazil,[26] including mobile-phone factories in Manaus and Indaiatuba as well as production bases in Jundiai, Sorocaba, and Santa Rita do Sapucaí.[27] The company is considering more investments in Brazil.[9]

Europe

A Foxconn factory in the Czech Republic

Foxconn has factories in Hungary[28], Poland[9], Slovakia[9], and the Czech Republic.[8] It is the second-largest exporter in the Czech Republic.[8]

India

Foxconn has an operation in the Special Economic Zone of Chennai, Tamil Nadu.[29]

Malaysia

As of 2011, Foxconn had at least one factory in Johor state,[30] possibly at Kulaijaya, where it is developing an industrial park that will include four factories once completed.[31]

Mexico

Foxconn has a facility in San Jerónimo, Chihuahua which assembles computers,[32] and two facilities in Juárez – a former Motorola production base which manufactures mobile phones,[33] and a set-top box factory acquired from Cisco Systems.[34] LCD televisions are also made in the country by Foxconn.[35]

Major customers

Foxconn manufactures products for companies including:

(country of headquarters in parentheses)

Controversies

Allegations of poor working conditions

Allegations of poor working conditions have been made on a number of occasions.[49] News reports highlight the long working hours,[19][21] discrimination against mainland Chinese workers by their Taiwanese co-workers,[50] and lack of working relationships at the company.[51] Although Foxconn was found to be compliant in the majority of areas when Apple audited the maker of its iPods and iPhones,[6] the audit did substantiate a few of the allegations.[52] Concerns increased in early 2012 due to a theatrical monologue purportedly based on factual accounts of working conditions at Foxconn,[53] but much of the source material was later shown to be fictional.[54]

Suicides

Main article: Foxconn suicides

There are two suicide events associated with Foxconn. One is the high profile death of a worker after the loss of a prototype and the other, a series of suicides linked to low pay in 2010.

Sun Danyong, a 25-year-old male, committed suicide in July 2009 after reporting the loss of an iPhone 4[55] prototype in his possession.[56][57]

In reaction to a spate of worker suicides where fourteen died in 2010,[58] a report by twenty Chinese universities described Foxconn factories as labour camps and detailed widespread worker abuse and illegal overtime.[59] In response to the suicides, Foxconn installed suicide-prevention netting at some facilities,[49] and it promised to offer substantially higher wages at its Shenzhen production bases.[60] Workers were also forced to sign a legally binding document guaranteeing that they and their descendants would not sue the company as a result of unexpected death, self-injury, or suicide.[61]

ABC News[62] and The Economist[63] both reported that the suicide rate of Foxconn employees is lower than the country's overall suicide rate.

Protests

In January 2012, 150 workers in Wuhan threatened to commit mass suicide because of worsening work conditions.[64] The employees had asked for a raise but were told they could either quit with compensation or keep their jobs with no raise. The employees quit, but did not receive their compensation.[65]

See also

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