Apple supply chain braces for disruption from coronavirus


Virtually all of the world’s iPhones are made in China, primarily by Foxconn’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co at its so-called iPhone City in Zhengzhou and by Pegatron Corp at an assembly site near Shanghai. Each of those locations is more than 500 km away from Wuhan in central China, the epicentre of the viral outbreak, but that distance doesn’t immunise them from its effects.

LOS ANGELES: Apple Inc’s China-centric manufacturing base is at risk of disruption after the Lunar New Year holiday as the company’s partners confront the coronavirus outbreak that has gripped the country and caused more than 100 deaths.

Virtually all of the world’s iPhones are made in China, primarily by Foxconn’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co at its so-called iPhone City in Zhengzhou and by Pegatron Corp at an assembly site near Shanghai. Each of those locations is more than 500 km away from Wuhan in central China, the epicentre of the viral outbreak, but that distance doesn’t immunise them from its effects.

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