`Mount Pleasant is not idle`: Hon Hai rebuts reports of broken promises in Wisconsin

Taipei, Sept. 1 (CNA) Taiwan-based manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. on Friday said around 1,000 people were employed at its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin facility after a report in the Washington Post stated that the site was "largely empty."

In a statement, iPhone assembler Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn on the global market, said that the complex in Wisconsin`s Racine County was "not idle" and was currently producing photovoltaic inverters and servers.

Hon Hai said that a glass dome at the center of the Mount Pleasant campus - which locals interviewed by the Washington Post described as showing "few signs of life" - was being used as a high-performance computing (HPC) center and internet communications control center...
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