Why do famous handset makers fall collectively?

December 5, 2014, well-known mobile phone parts factory Suzhou Joint construction technology announced the closure. Not only that, "Huaxia times" reporter recently in Suzhou to understand that, in the joint construction technology "accident", located in Suzhou Xu Kou town, Nokia mobile phone parts supply Shang technology also announced the shutdown shutdown, and dismissed most of the staff.

The story of the rise and fall of enterprises is not surprising, but the joint construction technology Hayhui technology are local large enterprises, the number of employees at the most people in more than million, why would suddenly fall collectively?

"Electronic foundry industry has developed for several decades, most of them still stay in the lowest end of the industrial chain, the profit is meager, more terrible is completely dependent on a single customer, the market a problem, immediately unsustainable." "Well-known 3C industry research expert Liang to this reporter pointed out that with the domestic labor cost advantages of the east decline and the acceleration of technology upgrades, the future will not rule out a large number of OEM enterprises crisis."

Chain

At the beginning of January, the reporter came to the town of Xu Kou in Suzhou Xiahong Hui Technology Factory, from outside the door has not seen a worker, factory security refused to enter the interview, he told reporters, the factory has no people, leadership is not, go in and see what.

According to security, Xiahong Hui technology at most when there are more than 10,000 employees, has been completely discontinued in November last year, from November 28, the company began to dismiss employees, the factory now left only the management staff stay, but did not declare bankruptcy, machine equipment also did not deal with.

A Xiahong Hui technology staff told reporters, Xiahong Hui Technology and the local government signed an agreement, must be two years before moving away, or to compensate the government 150 million yuan liquidated damages, so the company decided to stop production, and so on two years after the expiry of the contract officially closed. It is not important to declare the timing of the bankruptcy, but it is important that factories such as this scale come to such a position.

Xiahong Hui Technology is a listed company in Taiwan Xiahong Hui Industrial subsidiaries, mainly the production of mobile phones and automotive parts, including a variety of mobile phone keypad, magnesium alloy mobile phone shell, car audio and other plastic parts. According to the data, the company reported impairment losses of NT $972 million in the first three quarters of last year, and the net loss amounted to NT $1.265 billion.

The reporter also learned that, in addition to mismanagement, last August 2 occurred Kunshan a metal products workshop explosion also implicated in the Xiahong Hui Technology, a week after the government ordered the production of rectification.

The Suzhou Industrial Park in the joint construction technology last December 5 announced the collapse of the company, more than 3,000 workers suddenly unemployed, due to the compensation scheme dissatisfaction, the day more than 2000 people gathered at the factory gate protest and petition.

The joint construction technology is Taiwan Sheng Hua Technology subsidiary, was Apple mobile phone screen supplier, and later with Millet also had several years of cooperation. For the reasons of bankruptcy, Suzhou Industrial Park said that Sheng-hua technology was declared bankrupt, the creditor bank applied to the Sheng Hua Technology and its subsidiaries of all accounts to take the freezing of security measures, leading to the joint construction technology capital chain break.

It is understood that the joint building technology brilliant when there are more than 20,000 employees, 2014 business is deteriorating, until the collapse of more than 3,000 employees. After the petition incident, after the local government coordination, the company raised the compensation standards, the storm side to quell.

Industrial Winter

Over the years, the domestic countless foreign brands on behalf of the factory to support China's "world factory" reputation, but with the increase in domestic production costs, coupled with the world economic downturn, the domestic processing industry faced great pressure, in Dongguan, for example, only last October statistics show that, Dongguan Large factory bankruptcy has Taiwan hing Hong Shoes factory More than 10 foundry enterprises. Industry estimates, before the Spring festival in Dongguan at least hundreds of large factories closed or discontinued.

Liang analysis of the reasons for the failure of the factory, said: "The first is the downstream customer failure or loss and arrears of large amounts of money, to bring down the capital chain of foundry Enterprises; The second is that the major shareholders of foundry enterprises are in crisis, and they have to draw blood from their enterprises or withdraw their capital; third, the foundry enterprise technology is outdated, cannot keep up with downstream customers ' technology upgrading and being eliminated, such as Xiahong Hui technology is because of backward technology, poor production environment by Nokia abandoned. ”

The above Xiahong Hui technology staff told reporters, Xiahong Hui technology mainly for Nokia production cell phone keypad, "Now who still use the button cell phone ah?" are touch screen, factory technology is too backward, even Nokia can not run down.

and the joint construction technology has also been Apple and millet Company's important parts suppliers, the factory an employee told reporters, because of its backward technology, good product rate is too low, the cost is too high, has been apple and millet out of the list of suppliers.

"While the company has expanded its production facilities based on the prospect of iphone sales growth, but these devices are mainly used in previous versions of the iphone 4s, Apple has since last year launched a more screen-demanding iphone 5 and iphone 6, and the technology products are not adaptable, Eventually quit the Apple supplier. "said Mr Wang, a former middle-class manager at the joint Building technology.

Liang said that the domestic generation of factory closures have become more frequent, mainly because the domestic production cost advantage has been gradually lost, to the downstream customer's premium capacity is lower and higher, and many companies to a single customer dependence is too high, so that the customer orders as soon as the end of the enterprise immediately closed down.

The immediate consequence of the factory failure is the large number of workers unemployed. Suzhou Park Management Committee An official said: "Suddenly after the collapse of a large number of workers to the community, in the short term it is difficult to solve the problem of employment, can only gradually divert diversion." ”

"Now the foundry enterprises must be prepared for a rainy day, not because there are still some orders to relax." "Either move to lower-cost areas like the Midwest or South-East Asia, or take advantage of the money to step up independent branding, such as Asus and Acer in Taiwan," Liang. ”