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Motorola to Invest USD 20 Mln on India Manufacturing Facility

Motorola has announced plans for manufacturing facility in India, with an initial investment of USD 30 million. Motorola said the investment will be scaled up to a total of USD 100 million in phases.

The company will establish a manufacturing plant in the 300 acre Sriperumbadur Hi-tech Special Economic Zone (SEZ) being developed jointly by Motorola and Government of Tamilnadu at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.

"India is a vitally important market for Motorola, and as a strategic manufacturing hub offers compelling value proposition and strong cost efficiencies," Ron Garriques, executive vice president at Motorola Inc.

Expected to be operational in 2007, the state-of-the-art facility will undertake full-scale production, to support a wide range of Motorola handsets. It will also support production and assembly of network base stations for products across Motorola’s Networks & Enterprise portfolio.

Motorola’s manufacturing initiative will supplement the presence of its six R&D centres in India, including Motorola Labs, Core Networks Division, Embedded Communications Computing, and Global Software Group.


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