Foxconn to Apple: iPad 2 Production Remains On Schedule

By Craig Agranoff May 23rd, 2011

Tragedy hit a Foxconn factory in China (the company produces Apple’s iPad, iPhone, etc.) last week when an explosion killed 3 and injured more than a dozen others. The company as well as Apple are investigating the cause of the explosion, but Foxconn has officially told China Times that the tragedy will not delay iPad 2 and related item releases slated (unofficially) for this September.

This is not surprising since Foxconn has several facilities throughout China and employs over a million people, so the factory affected may or may not have been integral in production of the iPad 2 or the upcoming iPhone.

Background on the factory itself is sketchy, but shows that the explosion was apparently in a “polishing shop” and not a main production floor. The factory itself was built in record time and is capable of producing around 40 million iPads per year. Teh factory itself was built in Chungdu, the capital of a province where most of the young people who were migrating to other areas of China (including the much-maligned Shenzhen) came from.

The location is meant to keep suicides and defections of factory workers at a minimum, since they will be working and housed close to home and thus able to see family and friends – a problematic topic in Chinese factories where most workers leave home and go long distances to cities in order to find factory work.

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I don’t see it as a major loss
for Apple. That estimated 500k units are just 7% of their 7.4 million forecast.
It wouldn’t hurt them that much. Maybe that loss is a blessing in disguise for
them since the sales of tablets starts to decline most especially in 3rd
Quarter of the year. I’m also surprised
to know that up until now, they do not know the real cause of the accident.
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Very sad to see that building explosion and inspite of that they have told the production will be continued,I wish them a success.
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I’m sorry about the accident. But they seemed to manage it very well. Good news for apple.
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