Hewlett-Packard eliminated unprofitable production of computers near St. Petersburg
Hewlett-Packard ( HP ) turned the production of personal computers near St. Petersburg. According to kartoteka.ru, it was located in the village of Shushary and was liquidated on July 8. Sources of "Kommersant" reported that the plant stopped working in mid-2014.
“The plant was closed for economic reasons. The cost of PCs collected in Russia is significantly higher than those collected in Asia. When deciding on the closure of production, there was no talk about import substitution, and therefore the Russian assembly was not in demand, ”the source said.
"The plant began with the production of 10 thousand units per month, but did not reach the expected volumes," said another source. Foxconn looked for other partners for assembly in Shushary, but did not find it. At the same time, the HP plant in the Czech Republic was chronically underloaded, and the corporation moved the assembly to a more modern enterprise, added Alexander Kalinin, president of Aquarius .
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Construction of the HP personal computer factory in Shushary began in 2008. In April 2010, production was launched. HP teamed up with Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn to invest $ 50 million in the project.
At first, HP produced only desktop computers in Shushary, and in August 2013 it launched the assembly of monoblocks. Total planned to produce up to 480 thousand units per year.
The fall of the computer market began in 2014. As RBC wrote , in 2014, shipments of personal computers to Russian stores decreased by almost a third compared with 2013 (by 22.7%) to 7.91 million units, in monetary terms - by 32%, to $ 3.89 billion.
“The plant was closed for economic reasons. The cost of PCs collected in Russia is significantly higher than those collected in Asia. When deciding on the closure of production, there was no talk about import substitution, and therefore the Russian assembly was not in demand, ”the source said.
"The plant began with the production of 10 thousand units per month, but did not reach the expected volumes," said another source. Foxconn looked for other partners for assembly in Shushary, but did not find it. At the same time, the HP plant in the Czech Republic was chronically underloaded, and the corporation moved the assembly to a more modern enterprise, added Alexander Kalinin, president of Aquarius .
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Construction of the HP personal computer factory in Shushary began in 2008. In April 2010, production was launched. HP teamed up with Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn to invest $ 50 million in the project.
At first, HP produced only desktop computers in Shushary, and in August 2013 it launched the assembly of monoblocks. Total planned to produce up to 480 thousand units per year.
The fall of the computer market began in 2014. As RBC wrote , in 2014, shipments of personal computers to Russian stores decreased by almost a third compared with 2013 (by 22.7%) to 7.91 million units, in monetary terms - by 32%, to $ 3.89 billion.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/293056/
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