Hon Hai Precision Technologies (2330.TW) (Hon Hai) is one of Taiwans signature companies. Most Taiwanese people know about Hon Hai and its founder, Terry Guo. The Hon Hai factory in Shenzhen is, being probably the biggest factory in the world, legendary. Hon Hai is the largest EMS (electronic manufacturing services) company in the world but, outside of analyst circles or the tech sector, not widely known.
Tech-ON recently ran a three-part translation of an article about Hon Hai from the July 31, 2006 issue of "Nikkei Electronics." The article starts:
In the town were a number of brand-new factories with exterior walls painted off-white, residential buildings for the factory workers and commercial facilities. There were more than 70 huge buildings as far as I could see. Loaded trucks were continuously coming and going on the three-lane roads among the buildings.
The number of employees working at the site reportedly surpasses 100,000. Given the size of the expansive site, some travel from a building to another in electric golf carts. This is the Shenzhen plant of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (commonly known as Foxconn) of Taiwan.
Anyone would be surprised by what end-products they are producing at this plant, which never stops operating, day and night. The products manufactured there include the "iPod nano," the "Nintendo DS," the "PSP" and Motorola Inc's "RAZR" slim mobile phone. Mobile phones from Finland's Nokia Corp and Dell Inc's PCs are also manufactured here. It sounds like a global list of hit products.
The three part article is a good one and well worth the read. You can read the article by following the links below:
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