Tata Electronics Planning To Expand iPhone Enclosure Production At Hosur Unit

Tata Electronics is reportedly planning to increase the production of enclosures for Apple’s iPhones at its Hosur facility. 

“Tata Electronics is looking to double its existing capacity of around 50,000 enclosures,” a source told ET.

Sources also told the publication that the company aims to double its capacity ahead of Apple’s September product launches.

Inc42 has reached out to Tata Electronics for comments on the development. The story will be updated based on the response.

The electronics manufacturer has been making enclosures for Apple at its Hosur facility and has been rapidly expanding operations, setting up two new units and building dormitories for workers.

In September last year, Tata Sons’ chairman N Chandrasekaran said that its modern electronics factory in Hosur, Krishnagiri employs 20,000 people, and over 15,000 of them are women. In another year, the company was eyeing to operate with 40,000 employees active in the facility.

To note, Tata Electronics’ iPhone manufacturing plant in Hosur suffered a major fire accident, temporarily disrupting the operations in September last year. Following which, the company slowly resumed operations a month later.

As per the report, Tata Electronics achieved a capacity of about 50,000 enclosures before the incident of the fire, while sources also said, “But the capacity is at pre-fire levels now.”

The development comes at a time when the iPhone maker Apple has been ramping up its production goals in India as it looks to reduce its dependence on China.

Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the tech major will source most of the iPhones sold in the North American nation in the June quarter from India.

Prior to that, reports also surfaced that Apple has been planning to shift the entire assembly of iPhones sold in the US to India by as early as next year.

In the same light, its new iPhone manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu has commenced production recently, while Foxconn’s $2.6 Bn under-construction plant on the outskirts of Bengaluru was set to commence initial operations with one assembly line shortly.

Last month, union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that Apple exported iPhones worth more than INR 1.5 Lakh Cr ($17.32 Bn) from India in the financial year ending March 2025, marking a 76% year-on-year (YoY) jump and doubling Apple’s committed target under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme.