Blaze cripples Apple India's Lightning cable production factory

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Apple supplier Foxlink has stopped production at its India cable production facility after a fire caused part of a building to collapse.

Foxlink halts production over fire
Foxlink halts production over fire


Many of Apple's significant manufacturing partners, such as Foxconn, Pegatron, and Foxlink, have established subsidiaries and manufacturing facilities in India. But a massive fire at Foxlink's assembly facility in Andhra Pradesh has partially collapsed a building on Monday according to Reuters.

J Ramanaiah, head of the state's Fire Services Department for the Tirupati district, said the fire started in the afternoon and damaged approximately half of the factory's machinery. Fortunately, the fire department controlled the blaze, and there were no casualties.

The effect on Apple's operations and the cause of the incident were not immediately apparent. However, "Management has conveyed to us that they estimate a loss of roughly 1 billion rupees ($12 million) from the incident," Ramanaiah said.

Apple has been working to shift its supply chain outside of China after years of COVID lockdowns and US-China trade concerns. The endeavor should stabilize the production of the iPhone and other Apple products.

Foxlink, part of Taiwan's Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co Ltd, makes cables for iPhone chargers. It set up a factory in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 2020.

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  • Reply 1 of 9
    thrangthrang Posts: 1,036member
    Was it a lightning strike?
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  • Reply 2 of 9
    sflocalsflocal Posts: 6,136member
    JP234 said:
    Plenty of other places to get lightning cables. Cheaper, too.
    Probably an insurance fire, to get the money to retool for USB-C.
    Seriously... do people like you just sit around and fabricate conspiracy theories because you have nothing better to do in your life? 
    lkruppJapheyCluntBaby92watto_cobra
  • Reply 3 of 9
    dewmedewme Posts: 5,761member
    Is the universe trying to tell us something?
  • Reply 4 of 9
    thrang said:
    Was it a lightning strike?
    Haha! That one made my day. :D
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 5 of 9
    danoxdanox Posts: 3,429member
    India will never work, it will just be one crisis after another, with plenty of payoffs.
  • Reply 6 of 9
    India is a country with first world aspirations and a third world infrastructure. It is a country with approximately 1.4 billion people or about 1/6th of the world population. 
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 7 of 9
    hexclockhexclock Posts: 1,313member
    sflocal said:
    JP234 said:
    Plenty of other places to get lightning cables. Cheaper, too.
    Probably an insurance fire, to get the money to retool for USB-C.
    Seriously... do people like you just sit around and fabricate conspiracy theories because you have nothing better to do in your life? 
    Perhaps they just realized that there’s more money to be made manufacturing coronaviruses instead..
    watto_cobra
  • Reply 8 of 9
    davendaven Posts: 731member
    My initial thought when I read the headline was that “Blaze” was some sort of computer virus. Never would have thought that before the age of computers.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra
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