Flextronics to make IT products for Ericsson
By : Roseanne Gerin
Flextronics, a Singapore-based electronics manufacturer, announced in late January it would start making third-generation mobile network products at its Tczew manufacturing facility for Swedish mobile phone firm Ericsson. The announcement came on the same day that Ericsson said it would stop manufacturing mobile handsets and transfer its production activities to Flextronics.
Flextronics operates one factory in the Tczew special economic zone (SSE) just outside Gdansk and plans to add three more manufacturing plants, said Lotta Lindgren, the company's director of communications for Western Europe. She would not give any details about Flextronics' deal with Ericsson.
The company has started the construction of its second factory in Tczew, she said, adding that each new facility would take six to eight months to complete. Flextronics would hire mostly Poles for the new factories, Lindgren said. She estimated that the company would employ more than 1,000 workers. The current factory has a staff of 600, she added.
Katarzyna Pak, the spokeswoman for Ericsson's Warsaw office, was not available for comment.
