Flextronics to set up 250 acre mfg plant at Chennai

BANGALORE: Flextronics Technologies, the $16 billion electronic manufacturing services provider, is setting up a manufacturing facility near Chennai on a 250-acre plot.

Speaking on Flextronics - The Total EMS Solution Provider in India at the Texas Instruments Developer Conference, Joseph Devadass, director, Flextronix India, said that the plant will be operational by June 2006.

The manufacturing facility will up the employee strength to around 2,000 people by the first 18 months from the current strength of over 400 employees. The company has a total employee strength of around 5000 in India.

He said the new unit will have 18 PCBA manufacturing units and will offer product industrialization, support-based industrial automation, volume manufacturing and reverse logistics.

Besides the reverse logistics and repair service center in Bangalore, the company has also plans to open a new center in North India.

In addition to the facilities in Chennai and Bangalore, Flextronics has a unit in Pondichery, set up on a 40,000 sq.ft plot.

Earlier, the company had announced its plans to invest $70-100 million in the Chennai plant for the first five years. It expects to get annual revenue of $200 million from the plant.

The Chennai plant would offer the company's integrated services, including plastic injection moulding, printed circuit board assembly, set-top boxes, handsets, distribution, logistics and repair services.

The center would also support manufacturing requirements of the company's local and global OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), such as Nortel.

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