SCHAUMBURG, Ill., June 7 (UPI) -- Motorola will set up a $30 million plant in India that is expected to be scaled up to $100 million.
The facility will spread across 300 acres in the Sriperumbadur high-tech special economic zone that will be developed jointly between the mobile giant and the government of Tamilnadu at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.
"Motorola's manufacturing facility being set up in the Sriperumbadur Hi-tech SEZ will be a further catalyst to bringing the highest level of technology and electronics manufacturing into the country. The Sriperumbadur Hi-tech SEZ being developed jointly by the state government and Motorola, when fully operational is expected to make Sriperumbadur the electronics manufacturing hub of the country. I congratulate Motorola for yet another major effort in connecting the unconnected and accelerating the country's telecom revolution," Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, the region's minister for telecommunications, said in a news release.
Meanwhile, Motorola's president of mobile devices business Ron Garriques stated that "India is a vitally important market for Motorola and as a strategic manufacturing hub offers a compelling value-proposition of best-in-class talent and strong cost efficiencies. Our decision to make an investment of this scale is a reflection of our continued global commitment to connect the next billion consumers."
