Dixon India Subsidiary Padget To Manufacture Computers For HP India In Tamil Nadu

Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that consumer electronics majors HP Inc and Padget Electronics have signed an MoU to manufacture HP laptops, personal computers, and all-in-one PCs at a factory in Tamil Nadu. Vaishnaw, this is a major success for the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ programme. The production of HP devices as part of the pact with Padget Electronics, a subsidiary of homegrown Dixon Technologies, is set to commence in February of next year at the production facility at Oragadam, an industrial suburb of Chennai. Spanning across 300,000 square feet, the plant is projected to create 1,500 direct jobs. At peak capacity, it will be capable of producing 2 million units annually. The company will gradually increase local manufacturing of components, modules and peripherals, creating more jobs, the minister added.