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Tuesday, Jul 06, 2004
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Off-shore Development ACI to relocate notebook unit from UK to Gujarat Our Bureau
Gandhinagar , July 5 THE Allied Computers International (ACI), the UK-based notebook manufacturer is starting the country's first laptop manufacturing unit at Infocity, Gandhinagar. The company plans to shift its entire UK production facilities to India by the end of September 2004. Though the unit will be 100 per cent EoU under the Electronic Hardware Technology Park scheme, ACI's new manufacturing base will also cater to the domestic market requirements. ACI plans to start its first phase of operation by the end of this month, initially to cater to the domestic market. It will commence operations with the `Ethos' model with a production capacity of 7,000 - 10,000 laptops per month. Subsequently, by March 2005, the production capacity would be scaled up to 50,000 units per month. The second phase of operations would include exports to the UK, Dubai, Sri Lanka, South Africa and East Africa. "The facilities at the InfoCity will help bring prices of notebook down even further and sparkle a massive boom in the notebook markets where the company operates. Present duty structures are clearly designed to discourage local manufacturer and favour the established foreign brands. Against this, ACI would try and encourage local partnerships in India," Mr Hirji Patel, Chairman of ACI, told the media here on Monday. ACI would initially invest Rs 10 crore and this would go up to Rs 20 crore by the year-end. ACI was also contemplating to acquire 20 acres of land near the Infocity to further scale up its operations and help the unit emerge as a sourcing base for all its global business outlets.
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