On Monday, Apple supplier Pegatron temporarily halted iPhone assembly at its location in Chennai, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, following a fire at the factory.
Apple has targeted a large manufacturing base in India since it started assembling iPhones in the country in 2017.
Apple products in India are currently manufactured under contracts with companies including Foxconn, Wistron Corp, and Pegatron Corp. The company has a total of 14 suppliers with facilities in India.
The following are other incidents that disrupted operations at Apple facilities in India:
February 2023: Foxlink, which makes iPhone chargers, halts production at its assembly plant in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh state, after a fire causes part of the building to collapse.
December 2021: Operations at a Foxconn factory in the Tamil Nadu city of Chennai are halted for more than three weeks after 250 workers fall ill, sparking protests. Apple later discovered that the facility did not meet the required standards.
December 2020: Workers at the Wistron factory in Narsapura, Karnataka state, destroy property during a protest over non-payment of wages, causing millions of dollars in losses and forcing the Taiwanese contract manufacturer to close the factory for three months. (Compiled by Blassy Boben and edited by Mark Potter)
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