OnePlus has announced its plans for the local production of its smartphones in India through contract manufacturing at Foxconn’s Rising Stars factory within the Sri City Integrated Business City in the state of Andhra Pradesh by the end of 2015.
Representing the Government of Andhra Pradesh at the announcement event were B Sreedhar, IAS, Vice Chairman & Managing Director – Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Ltd and SA Srinivasa Moorthy, Chief Executive Officer, Andhra Pradesh Electronics & IT Agency.
Today is a big day for us. Producing smartphones in India is one of the most important decisions that we have made so far at OnePlus, and we are thankful to the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Foxconn for helping us make this happen. India being one of our biggest markets worldwide, we are committed to a long term sustainable growth path. This move will strengthen our presence and help us step up momentum in India.
— Pete Lau, Founder & CEO, OnePlus
The local production of OnePlus’ upcoming devices will start before the end of this year at the 30,000 sq ft facility at Foxconn’s Rising Stars factory.
The facility will have a cumulative peak capacity of producing up to 500,000 units per month, thus scalable to locally fulfil the demand for OnePlus’ smartphones in India in the future.
The facility will also generate direct employment of over 1,000 fulltime workers, thereby giving further support to the government’s Make in India initiative.
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