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TAIPEI -- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (TAIEX:2317) will hire 600 new employees, mostly engineers, in the initial phase of its new factory in the Central Taiwan Science Park in Taichung, which will feature intelligent robotics and automation equipment manufacturing, science park officials said Thursday.
Hon Hai, the world's largest contract electronics maker, was scheduled to hold a job recruitment fair the following day in the science park, the officials said.
The company is seeking engineers in mechanical equipment design, computer numerical control (CNC) and metal processing, as well as marketing, product planning and human resource experts.
Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou is expected to make a personal appearance at the job fair to show the importance of the automation production base.
The Taichung city government said it will work closely with Hon Hai and the Central Taiwan Science Park's administration office to provide training courses to cultivate precision machinery and automation talent.
Last October, the new automation production base broke ground, aiming to build an "intelligent robotics kingdom" at the science park over the coming few years.
In the first stage of the investment, Hon Hai is expected to pour about NT$10 billion (US$333 million) into the new factory, which will be run by its unit Foxnum Tech. Co., established in 2007 and specializing in the production of CNC machines and other sophisticated machine tools.
Hon Hai expects the new automation base to create about 2,000 jobs and generate about NT$120 billion in production value over the next three to five years.
Hon Hai, which churns out iPhones and iPads for Apple, along with high-tech gadgets for other multinational electronics giants such as Sony, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, mostly in factories in China, is trying hard to cut its operating costs in the face of rising labor costs in China by employing automation equipment and intelligent robots.
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