Dell completes second high-tech factory in Xiamen
Updated: 2006-05-31 10:20
Dell, a world personal computer giant, on Tuesday completed the building of
its second factory in China, enabling it to double its annual production
capacity in the country.
The two factories, both in Xiamen, a coastal
city in east China's Fujian Province, make China the third largest manufacturing
base globally.
The two factories will contribute to eight to 10 percent
of Dell's global production capacity when the second plant goes into full
operation.The new factory produces 7 million computers annually, a source with
Dell said.
"China has become Dell's fifth largest market," said Stephen
J. Felice, president of Dell Asia-Pacific and Japan. "Its huge market
potential has been fuelling the rapid growth of Dell's business in Asia."
Dell's output in China last quarter increased by 40 percentage points
compared with figures a year ago and the sales revenue rose by 29 percentage
points.
Computers from the new factory will be sold in Hong Kong, Japan
and the Republic of Korea among other regions, while its first factory mainly
supplies the Chinese mainland, said sources with Dell.
New technologies
in the second factory have raised production efficiency by 30 percent, said Li
Yuanjun, general manager of Dell China's Customer Service Center.
Dell also
has a design center in Shanghai.
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