A major set of Apple and Tesla suppliers suspended production at some Chinese manufacturers due to compliance with tougher energy consumption policies imposed by Beijing.
This says Reuters, puts supply chains at risk in this country and, therefore, the distribution of products to the rest of the world.
The episode shows that you can do all the marketing campaigns necessary to position a product, even invest millions in digital advertising with the idea of showing the world the benefits of a new item, however, a logistics problem can bring everything down.
To make matters worse, the problem happens just when we are in the peak of sales season for electronic devices.
Production interruptions are related to difficulties in the provision of energy in some regions of China, the shortage of coal in that country overlaps with the tightening of emission standards, which has generated a retraction in the industry.
According to Unimicron Technology Corp, one of Apple’s suppliers that is in charge of different devices of the brand, three of its subsidiaries in China stopped production from September 26 and will do so until October 1 in order to ” comply with the policy of limitation of electricity consumption of local governments ”.
Eson Precision, a Chinese subsidiary of Taiwan’s Hon-Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn), said in a statement that it has suspended production from Sunday 26 until next Friday at the Kunshan plants.
At Concraft Holding, from where components for the iPhone 13 are supplied, the suspension of production will be extended until September 30 in the Chinese city of Suzhou.
The good news is that two of Taiwan’s biggest manufacturers, which also have plants in China, have had no complications.
For their part, United Microelectronics Corp and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (better known as TSMC), have not suffered interruptions in their factories in China.
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