Starting as a supplier of connectors to Apple in 2011, Luxshare is now the most important Chinese components supplier and manufacturer of AirPods, Apple Watches, and iPhones. The Chinese company is the fastest-growing tech manufacturer among Apple suppliers when it comes to product portfolio, Nikkei said. Once completed, the complex will have 39 production lines, according to Nikkei. Luxshare and the Kunshan City government had a groundbreaking ceremony at the end of October. Apple ships approximately 200 million iPhones per year, with Foxconn responsible for assembling around 60 percent and Pegatron about 30%, per the report. Luxshare, which currently manufactures iPhones in a Kunshan plant purchased from Taiwan’s Winstron in 2020, is hoping to increase production from 6.5 million devices this year to between 12 million and 15 million units as early as next year, Nikkei said. Luxshare is expected to finish the initial phase of the new facility in mid-2022, according to the report. The Chinese manufacturer has also leased and remodelled a neighbouring plant that was previously owned by iPad assembler Compal Electronics. The move signals Apple’s growing reliance on Chinese suppliers, the outlet said. According to Nikkei, Luxshare is building a 285,000-square-metre manufacturing complex in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province with a $1.72 billion (NT$47.8 billion) investment. Luxshare Precision Industry is constructing an immense iPhone manufacturing complex in eastern China to challenge Taiwanese manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron. Luxshare building massive iPhone plant in China to compete with Taiwan’s Foxconn
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