Foxconn India's iPhone plant restarts production after December protests


FILE PHOTO Private security guards stand at the entrance of a closed plant of Foxconn India which makes iPhones for Apple Inc near Chennai India December 22 2021. REUTERSSudarshan Varadhan

FILE PHOTO: Private security guards stand at the entrance of a closed plant of Foxconn India, which makes iPhones for Apple Inc, near Chennai, India, December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Sudarshan Varadhan

CHENNAI (Reuters) -Apple Inc supplier Foxconn restarted production at its plant in southern India on Wednesday, a company official said, over three weeks after it was closed because of protests over workers falling sick.

The company official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the factory reopened with one shift and 120 workers, adding it would take over two months for the plant to produce at full capacity.

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