HUIZHOU, CHINA – Foxconn International plans to spend more than $500 million on a new campus in Huizhou that, when up and running, will employ more than 10,000 workers.
 
The plant is due to start up in the third quarter of 2008, the firm says. The world's largest EMS firm hopes to hire more than 10,000 workers next year for the factory, and begin shipments in the second half.
 
Foxconn said the Huizhou campus, located in southern China, will take pressure off its Shenzhen plant, which is now at capacity.
 
The plant is expected to become the company’s main southern Chinese manufacturing operation. "The size of this newest plant would be similar to the one in Shenzhen," the China Post quoted a Foxconn spokesman as saying.
 
Foxconn previously announced plans to build factories in Taiyuan and Langfang, China.