Foxconn’s “HP desktop computer” facilities in Çerkezköy, which is currently on the agenda with the suicides in its factory in China, are getting ready for production very soon.
Taiwanese Foxconn, which outsources production to technology giants (Apple, HP, Intel, Sony), has recently been on the agenda with suicides (due to poor working conditions) in its facilities in Schenzen, China. Turkey’s Foxconn agenda is quite different these days.
Turkey, especially the “Prime Ministry Investment Support and Promotion Agency”, maintains close relations with this company.. The goal lies in Foxconn’s idea of structuring the largest facilities in the region after Russia in Turkey.. Important steps have also been taken in this business.
Foxconn, which will make production in Çerkezköy for HP, which has made a strategic decision to expand to the Middle East and African countries through Turkey, has started the establishment of the factory to produce desktop computers.. The factory, which will have a production capacity of 2.4 million computers with an investment of 60 million dollars, is planned to produce 800 thousand units in the first stage.. Then the target is to reach full capacity in a short time.. In total, it is planned to reach 2,000 people on the employment side.
The situation in China is bad…
HP Personal Systems Group Turkey Manager Ertuğ Ayık spoke about the recent events in China. While making an assessment on the subject, he reminded that similar incidents took place in many facilities in the region.. Pointing out that there is a much more dramatic picture than the last ones in many facilities in China, Ayık also stated that Foxconn is working to prevent such incidents from happening.. Ertuğ Ayık reminded that the facility to be established in Turkey will comply with the working conditions in Turkey. “Exterior works of the facility established in the Free Zone have been completed.. Currently the work inside has been passed. It is planned to start test production in the winter months and start production with the new year.”
‘We competed with Macedonia’
Underlining that this factory will be the only technology factory in the Free Zone, Ertuğ Ayık , based on the example in the automotive industry, emphasized that new business potential will emerge in the name of technology in this region in the coming period.. Stating that Turkey is a very important center in terms of logistics, Ertuğ Ayık stated that Macedonia and Turkey were the last two countries in the selection of a location for the Foxconn factory, and that Turkey stood out and made an investment in the evaluation made.
Will investments return to R&D?
When evaluated from HP’s point of view, Ayık stated that they took the first step in R&D with the innovation center established at Istanbul Technical University. He explained that the company clearly reveals its view of the region and its future investment vision.. Emphasizing that they will do business on behalf of desktop PC production with Foxconn, not in the field of R&D, Ayık stated that they are also willing to work with HP in the R&D category in the future, together with the engineers to be employed at the factory and the young minds at the innovation center.
800 thousand people are working and producing iPad, Kindle
Foxconn, which was founded in Taiwan in 1974, has shifted its business, which started with the production of plastic parts, to the field of technology nowadays. case. One of the world’s largest contract manufacturers in the field of technology, the company produces for popular devices such as Apple’s iPod, iPad and iPhone, Amazon’s Kindle, as well as for Intel, Dell, HP, Sony, Microsoft, Motorola and Cisco.. The company, which was listed on the stock market in Taiwan in 1991, employs 420 thousand people only in its factories in China.. The total number of employees of the company is over 800,000.. The company also has production facilities in the USA, England, Hungary, Czech Republic, Mexico, Brazil, India, Russia and Vietnam. the number reaches 13. The company has been criticized for its low wages and harsh working conditions.