Desi Disruption: India’s local contract makers ready to be +1 to China at manufacturing gala

Homegrown contract manufacturers of electronic items such as Dixon Technologies and Karbonn Group have been able to nearly equal the cost of manufacturing in India with that in China, executives said. They have been able to do so by learning from Chinese methods and will invest in automation to further pare expenses.

“The discussions that we have had with our global customers (laptop and tablet brands) is that we feel we have almost matched the China manufacturing cost,” Dixon Technologies managing director Atul Lall told analysts last week.