Nov 22nd 2013, 15:59, by Adrianne Jeffries
American companies usually go to Asia to do their manufacturing, but this time it's the other way around. Foxconn, the Taipei-based electronics manufacturer that builds Apple's iPhone, is planning to invest $40 million to build robots in Pennsylvania.
Foxconn will spend $30 million over the next two years building a high-tech manufacturing facility in Harrisburg, PA, as well as $10 million on research at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, Bloomberg News reports. Foxconn already has a plant in Harrisburg that employs about 30 people, but the new facility will employ another 500.
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