Lenovo Announces Grand Opening of US Manufacturing Facility

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 6, 2013 @01:25AM from the unstealing-our-jobs dept.

Kohenkatz writes "Chinese PC maker Lenovo had a ceremony [Wednesday] to mark the official grand opening of their new manufacturing facility in Whitsett, North Carolina. The 240,000-square-foot facility, located approximately 10 miles east of Greensboro, NC, was already being used as a Logistics Center, Customer Solutions Center, and National Returns Center, and is now also being used for Production. While actual line operations began in January 2013, the facility is on track to reach full operation by the end of June. The facility is equipped to build several types of Think-branded products, including desktops, tablets, and ultrabooks. Note that due to the extensive use of automation, the factory only adds 115 manufacturing jobs at the facility."

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I have a better idea by slashmydots · 2013-06-06 02:05 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Instead of focusing on where they're built, maybe they should focus on building laptops that don't suck. They're currently third to last in quality and only complete morons buy them for their company. Real IT purchasers go with ASUS, MSI, Toshiba, Samsung, or Sony in that order because they're the top 5 highest quality and longest useable life rating with the last failures over time and best build quality.