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Lenovo Announces Grand Opening of US Manufacturing Facility

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Recovering ground by Chas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is probably aimed at some of the issues Lenovo's been having with people inferring that, because Lenovo's a Chinese company, that the Think line of computers are now unsuitable for business and government purposes due to the possibility of back doors and spyware build directly into firmware/hardware.

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    1. Re:Recovering ground by Bill_the_Engineer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This has to do with government mandates that discourage purchasing computers manufactured in China. This does nothing to prevent the existence of back doors or spyware, but it makes the politicians feel good.

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  2. Oh, hell... by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's actually happened...

    Now Chinese are outsourcing to us

  3. Sounds like a lonely job by SirGarlon · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the 115 employees all work the same shift and are uniformly distributed, then each would have 2086 square feet of floor space. That's a minimum spacing of 45.7 feet (13.9 meters) between employees!

    Correction: 45.7 feet between the _center of mass_ of each employee. So if we further assume the employees are spherical ...

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    1. Re:Sounds like a lonely job by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Funny

      Based on what I see from the average american that seems like a totally reasonable assumption.

      My guess is that much of this will be automated and the humans highly concentrated at steps that cannot be automated for one reason or another.

  4. You know... by armahillo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're probably just trying to take advantage of that cheap American labor...

  5. No, it does do some good by MikeRT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A computer built in the US and shipped via American carriers is significantly less likely to be tampered with in transit. In China, you're trusting that there are no "stops" between the factory and the dock.

    It's just a step in the right direction. In that sense and that sense alone you are more correct than wrong.