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After reading Apple in China - The Capture of the World's Greatest Company I’m extraordinarily skeptical of the US’ ability to compete with low wage, lower workers rights countries and bring back a meaningful amount of Apple’s manufacturing business.
Some leading edge chips? Sure, extremely automated. iPhone assembly in Peoria instead of at Foxconn in China or India? Ain’t no way.
But, hey, maybe Foxconn Wisconsin really was the long game after all?
Foxconn Wisconsin has mostly been converted to Microsoft “token factories” that employ far fewer people, than the originally envisioned 13,000 in the Foxconn “8th Wonder of the World”.
Microsoft intends to expand in a place where it's been welcomed, months after backing down on a rezoning attempt in an adjacent village when residents objected.
www.cnbc.com
But if you want to see new real physical manufacturing factories, you have to look 10 miles further south in Kenosha, where they make something as valuable as chips by volume.
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company Thursday announced a $3 billion expansion at its recently acquired manufacturing facility in Kenosha County.
