Foxconn closes all polishing workshops, supply affected tech

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal published late Monday, Foxconn has closed all its China workshops dealing with the polishing products and electronic components. According to a spokesman of the company, the closure could last up to two days. "The workshops may be submitted online as soon as they pass the test," the WSJ reported him said. Foxconn produces products for many large of electronics companies in the world, including Apple, Sony, Nintendo and HP.

The closure of the workshop are an explosion of Friday at Chengdu's Foxconn factory, located in the rural interior of China, of which three workers were killed. Fifteen others were injured. The plant is closed for an investigation and security checks are performed. The cause of the accident is thought to be related to an accumulation of combustible dust in a workshop of polishing aluminum. The closure of the workshops of the company increases the likelihood of problems occurring with the global supply of many electronic products.

As the WSJ States, with closed shops, a bottleneck will likely take place, disrupting all manufacturing and Assembly process. According to DigiTimes, out of the iPad 2 could be affected by about 30 percent, although this estimate came before that Foxconn closed all its workshops polishing for the new security checks.

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The company is rarely out of the news - the company was recently awarded its workers to sign a contract "no suicide" following the death of 14 staff over the past two years. In July 2010, 250 workers in a factory in India Foxconn were taken to hospital suffering from poisoning by pesticides, and in June also last year, an employee dies from exhaustion after a change of 34 hours reported for the company.

Number of deaths at Foxconn China plant rises to three (AFP)

BEIJING- the number of people killed in an explosion in a plant to Foxconn in China, reportedly in a building where iPad Apple 2 was made, if student three Sunday after the death of a critically injured worker, says media.

Two workers were initially killed and 16 wounded in the explosion Friday evening at a subsidiary of Foxconn plant in Chengdu, capital of the province of Sichuan in southwestern China, according to the official news agency Xinhua.

An initial investigation indicated that the explosion could have been caused by combustible dust in polishing workshop, he said, adding that investigators had ruled out the possibility of sabotage.

Operations in the workshop and the other sections of the plant with similar processes have been suspended for further investigation and security checks, Xinhua quoted a spokesman for Hongfujin (Chengdu) Precision Electronics Co. Ltd. said.

Hongfujin is a subsidiary of Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn manufacturer most of computer components which manufactures items for Apple, Sony and Nokia.

The journal of the economic observer, has said that the iPad 2 became the building affected by the explosion.

This is the latest incident to hit the crenellated Foxconn, after the death of at least 13 of its employees in apparent suicides last year, activists blame on the difficult working conditions.

Foxconn employs about one million workers in China, almost half of them based in its main facilities in the South of the city of Shenzhen.

Foxconn has expanded its staff in other parts of China that it seeks to scale to the size of its plant in Shenzhen.

The company opened the Chengdu plant two billion in October last year, according to Xinhua.

Foxconn confirms 3rd death factory linked to iPad

NEW YORK Foxconn Technology Co Ltd Sunday confirmed that a third person died after a large explosion in a factory in southwestern China Friday that local media have linked to the production of iPad Apple 2.

The Taiwanese company, manufacturer of Apple Inc. main contract for the popular Tablet for iPhone gadgets, operates the plant in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, China.

Point of preliminary findings of an explosion of combustible dust in one leads to a workshop in the polishing plant, said Foxconn said a working group headed by civil servants and law enforcement.

The company also said that all operations in this workshop remains in suspension and production at all workshops are similar work is also suspended. Perform all other operations of production at its plant in China as in the usual, it added.

An Apple spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.

In addition to the death of three, 15 employees was injured. The six were treated and released from the hospital, said Foxconn.

Foxconn, the largest manufacturer of contract of the world, is a subsidiary of Hon Hai Taiwan to the.