According to four sources, a production slowdown at Pegatron, an Apple supplier,’s (4938. TW) India iPhone facility is anticipated to stretch until Wednesday. It might go longer while authorities look into a fire at the Taiwanese company’s only India unit.
According to Reuters, Pegatron called off all assembly shifts for Monday and Tuesday but defined the Sunday fire as a “spark incident” that had “no financial or operational impact to Pegatron Corporation” and left no one hurt.
According to four people briefed on the situation, Wednesday shifts are also improbable. One of them said that the plant in the Chengalpattu area, close to the southern metropolis of Chennai in the Tamil Nadu state, was undergoing damage repair and that, in the worst scenario, the shutdown may continue the entire week.
One source claimed that Apple personnel were working with Pegatron following the incident.
Requests for a response from Apple and Pegatron went unanswered.
According to a fifth source, Pegatron has requested independent surveyors to evaluate the fire damage.
The setbacks are the most recent to affect Apple (AAPL.O) suppliers in India, where the American firm is rapidly increasing production of the iPhone and other products for both the domestic market and exports. 10% of Apple’s iPhone production in India is done at the impacted Pegatron India factory.
