Chennai: After a gap of six years, Nokia factory in Sriperumbudur restarted production, making phone parts and chargers under its new owner — Salcomp, Finnish electronics component maker.
The unit which was restarted by the Tamil Nadu chief minister will be fully occupied in phases.
“We have started with 1,000 persons making phone chargers. We will slowly ramp it up and by 2022 we will have nearly 7,000 persons inside this unit,” said Sasikumar Gendham, MD, Salcomp Manufacturing India Private Ltd.
Salcomp will now work at restarting another factory inside the Nokia SEZ, that of Lite-On-Mobile.
“We may start that factory in January,” he said.
Salcomp, largest supplier of chargers for Apple phones, will invest a total of Rs 1,800 crore and employ 10,000 additional persons.
Nokia shut operations after Microsoft decided to keep the Sriperumbudur factory out of a global deal due to tax disputes. The unit was forced shutdown and after a protracted legal battle, the dispute was settled in 2018 paving way for Salcomp to take over the factory.
The unit which was restarted by the Tamil Nadu chief minister will be fully occupied in phases.
“We have started with 1,000 persons making phone chargers. We will slowly ramp it up and by 2022 we will have nearly 7,000 persons inside this unit,” said Sasikumar Gendham, MD, Salcomp Manufacturing India Private Ltd.
Salcomp will now work at restarting another factory inside the Nokia SEZ, that of Lite-On-Mobile.
“We may start that factory in January,” he said.
Salcomp, largest supplier of chargers for Apple phones, will invest a total of Rs 1,800 crore and employ 10,000 additional persons.
Nokia shut operations after Microsoft decided to keep the Sriperumbudur factory out of a global deal due to tax disputes. The unit was forced shutdown and after a protracted legal battle, the dispute was settled in 2018 paving way for Salcomp to take over the factory.
