Laird Invests Over $15 million to Open Manufacturing Facility in Chennai, India

Chennai: Laird Technologies Inc.—in the design and manufacture of customized, performance-critical products for wireless and other advanced electronics applications—announced of its first manufacturing facility in India.

The facility is located in the Nokia Telecom special economic zone (SEZ) in Sriperembudur near Chennai. The company is investing over $15 million for 160,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and will employ between 1,000 to 1,200 people when in full production. The manufacturing facility will initially produce antennas, battery packs and EMI shielding products for cellular handset applications for its Indian customers. The company also expects to export the products manufactured at the Chennai facility to overseas markets.

Sri Talpallikar, managing director-India, Laird Technologies, said, “The choice of Chennai as the company’s first location in India was due to the availability of a skilled work force, support from the Tamil Nadu Government, the presence of good logistics, excellent infrastructure facilities, lower costs and our close to the customer strategy. This new facility will allow us to support our Indian customers with products in a timely and efficient manner.”

Marty Rapp, CEO, Laird Technologies, stated, “Our new manufacturing facility in Chennai is a big step for us in our goal to be local, globally. Now that the facility is in operation, we look forward to introducing a wider range of our products, and servicing the rapidly growing electronics market in India.”

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