EMS Corridor is an emerging Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) corridor in
Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
. It stretches from
Sriperumbudur
Sriperumbudur is a town panchayat in the Kanchipuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located 40 kilometers southwest of the capital city of Chennai on the National Highway 4 (India)(old numbering), National Highway 4 and i ...
to
Oragadam to the west of Chennai. The corridor boasts of capital investment by EMS companies of about , which is half of the EMS business in India.
EMS hub of India
The corridor is emerging as an EMS hub of India. Many companies like
Dell
Dell is an American based technology company. It develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell is owned by its parent company, Dell Technologies.
Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
,
Nokia,
Nokia Siemens Network
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...
,
Motorola,
Cisco,
Samsung,
Siemens
Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad.
The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...
,
Sony-Ericsson
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. ( ja, ソニーモバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社) was a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001, as a joint venture between Sony Group Corporation and Ericsson. I ...
,
Flextronics
Flex Ltd. (previously known as Flextronics International Ltd. or Flextronics) is an American Singaporean-domiciled multinational diversified manufacturing company. It is the third largest global electronics manufacturing services (EMS), origi ...
,
Foxconn,
Alcatel,
Texas Instruments,
Laird plc
Laird plc was a leading United Kingdom, British-based electronics and technology business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Advent International in July 2018.
History
The company was founded by John Laird (ship ...
, Salcomp, ProWorks, Perlos(LOM), Power Wave Tech, Jabil Green and
Sanmina-SCI
Sanmina Corporation is an American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in communications and computer hardware fields. The firm has nearly 80 manufac ...
have set up their plants in this corridor with an investment of approximately $1 billion.
See also
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EMS Industry in Chennai
Chennai, the Detroit of Asia has now emerged as the Electronics Manufacturing Services hub of India. It already has strong base in Automotive, IT and many other Industries.
EMS Corridor stretches from Sriperumbudur to Oragadam.
List of EMS ...
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Rajiv Gandhi Salai
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Automotive Corridor
Chennai is nicknamed the "Detroit of Asia" due to the presence of major automobile manufacturing units and allied industries around the city.
The 4-wheeler vehicles in Chennai is the base of 30% of India's automobile industry and 35% of its a ...
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SEZ Corridor
The SEZ Corridor is an emerging corridor implementing a number of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) along the Grand Southern Trunk Road ( NH 45) in Chennai. Started with the establishment of the Madras Export Processing Zone in 1984 (converted to a ...
References
High-technology business districts in Chennai
Electronics industry in India
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