Foxconn scales back plans for its first factory in Mount Pleasant
Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 8:21 a.m. CT June 28, 2018
The Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing complex that President Donald Trump helps launch Thursday in Mount Pleasant will differ significantly, at least initially, from the original plans.
While two economic-impact analyses prepared last year and the state’s contract with Foxconn say the company will build a type of factory that carves display panels out of immense sheets of wafer-thin glass, Foxconn now says it first will erect a plant that uses much smaller sheets of glass.
Such factories typically are much smaller and less-expensive than the sort of plant Foxconn originally planned, industry observers say.
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