Xiaomi opens seventh India plant in Chennai

NEW DELHI: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Tuesday announced a new manufacturing unit in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The 1 million square feet facility, set up in partnership with electronics manufacturing company Flex, will be Xiaomi’s seventh plant in India.

With the start of operations of the new plant, Xiaomi’s production capacity in the country has increased from two phones per second to three phones. Manu Kumar Jain, managing director, Xiaomi India, said that 95 per cent of Xiaomi’s phones are made in India, with 65 per cent of a phone’s value sourced locally. He said that Xiaomi is working towards bridging the 5 per cent gap in local manufacturing and will soon domestically produce 99 per cent of the phones it sells in India.