Two Apple suppliers in Vietnam have been forced to temporarily shut down their factories due to a localized increase in COVID-19 cases.
The Vietnamese government has ordered the closure of four industrial parks, resulting in plant closures for Foxconn and Luxshare…
Bloomberg reports:
Vietnam has instructed Foxconn Technology Group and Luxshare Precision Industry Co. to temporarily shut down their factories due to a virus outbreak in the northern region, said Le Anh Duong, chairman of the Bac Giang Province People’s Committee.
“They are implementing our demand to temporarily shut down entire factories and we will send health officials to help them reorganize so that we can quickly resume operations and limit the spread of the virus at the same time,” he said. declared by phone. “We hope to resume operations at these factories in two weeks to limit disruption to the global supply chain” […]
Luxshare and Foxconn – both suppliers to Apple Inc. – have factories in the Van Trung and Quang Chau industrial parks, Duong said.
The action was prompted by the fact that more than a third of all COVID-19 cases in Vietnam have occurred in Bac Giang province.
The report does not say whether Apple production has been affected, but it seems likely. Foxconn has been working to move some of its iPad and MacBook production from China to Vietnam; the assembly plant was among those forced to close; and production was scheduled to start in the first half of this year.
Foxconn is moving an iPad and MacBook assembly to Vietnam from China at the behest of Apple Inc, a person familiar with the plan said. […] Foxconn is building assembly lines for Apple’s iPad tablet and MacBook laptop at its factory in northeastern Vietnam’s Bac Giang province, which will go live in the first half of 2021.
Apple has reportedly struggled to produce the latest 12.9-inch iPad before due to the limited capacity of miniLED backlight technology. The company warned last month that iPads and Macs would likely be in short supply this quarter.
Additionally, iPhone production in India has been disrupted by the spread of the virus.
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