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mucifer

(23,569 posts)
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:08 AM Jan 2019

Foxconn may not build $10B Wisconsin plant Trump touted

Foxconn is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.

Announced at a White House ceremony in 2017, the 20-million square foot campus marked the largest greenfield investment by a foreign-based company in U.S. history and was praised by President Donald Trump as proof of his ability to revive American manufacturing.

Foxconn, which received controversial state and local incentives for the project, initially planned to manufacture advanced large screen displays for TVs and other consumer and professional products at the facility, which is under construction. It later said it would build smaller LCD screens instead.

Now, those plans may be scaled back or even shelved, Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn Chief Executive Terry Gou, told Reuters. He said the company was still evaluating options for Wisconsin, but cited the steep cost of making advanced TV screens in the United States, where labor expenses are comparatively high.


https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/foxconn-may-not-build-10b-wisconsin-plant-trump-touted-n964411?cid=public-rss_20190130

Guess they just can't get enough corporate welfare. You know you can never get enough corporate welfare.
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Foxconn may not build $10B Wisconsin plant Trump touted (Original Post) mucifer Jan 2019 OP
Also, so much winning. Mc Mike Jan 2019 #1
Who was that dickhead Governor who pushed BootinUp Jan 2019 #2
I'm glad Wisconsin wised up and voted the dickhead out. lkinwi Jan 2019 #3
Wanker is going to be working on tRumps re-election campaign...... a kennedy Jan 2019 #6
Foxconn con on Wisconsin! Freethinker65 Jan 2019 #4
really they are going to build a plant with no plans scarytomcat Jan 2019 #5
Foxconn has 803,000 employees fescuerescue Jan 2019 #14
Anybody with a remnant of a brain saw this one coming Firestorm49 Jan 2019 #7
But but but why are they going to assemble in Mexico and ship ooky Jan 2019 #8
the whole thing was bullshit from the get go... Javaman Jan 2019 #9
WISCONSIN WAS CONNED ROB-ROX Jan 2019 #10
... Scurrilous Jan 2019 #11
Where's McDonald? gratuitous Jan 2019 #12
Deplorables got played! oasis Jan 2019 #13
Looks like the FoxConn is back on with call from tRump..... a kennedy Feb 2019 #15
Words are cheap, and Trump has an attention span of a gnat on crack dalton99a Feb 2019 #16

lkinwi

(1,477 posts)
3. I'm glad Wisconsin wised up and voted the dickhead out.
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:23 AM
Jan 2019

I just wish he’d move out of our state, so we wouldn’t have to deal with him trying to run for public office again.

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
5. really they are going to build a plant with no plans
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:32 AM
Jan 2019

for what they are going to do there?
good business strategy
we should all loan them lots of money
NOT

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
14. Foxconn has 803,000 employees
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 08:17 PM
Jan 2019

This isn't 3 guys in a garage thinking up stuff.

They have more planners than DU has members.

Any plans they have - are only made public to the extent that they have to (to secure tax breaks etc). Anything else they keep to themselves for competitive reasons and to not embarrass themselves in the event they change their minds.

Firestorm49

(4,037 posts)
7. Anybody with a remnant of a brain saw this one coming
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:46 AM
Jan 2019

After eminent domain was used to scalp people from their homes, the Milwaukee / Chicago freeway became endlessly clogged, and our former dipshit ex-governor has been booted, all we’re left with are the lies, deceit, and shallow Republican pipe dreams.
I doubt anybody really thought Foxx “Con” would create the predicted 13,000 jobs at an average $53,000 per year. If something sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is.
The real joke here is that Skippy Walker has said he’d consider another run for Gov. Good luck with that one, Skippy.

ooky

(8,929 posts)
8. But but but why are they going to assemble in Mexico and ship
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:48 AM
Jan 2019

finished product into the United States, after Trump's great new trade deal with Mexico that is going to add so many new manufacturing jobs in the United States and eliminate the trade imbalance? And cause Mexico to pay for the wall indirectly?

Javaman

(62,534 posts)
9. the whole thing was bullshit from the get go...
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:48 AM
Jan 2019

foxconn has a long history of baiting and switching towns and cities with their grand pronouncements.

Check out this article and this podcast which were both about the mount pleasant plant...

podcast
https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/132-negative-mount-pleasant

The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18128133/foxconn-deal-wisconsin-factory-mount-pleasant-trump-reply-all-sruthi-pinnamaneni

ROB-ROX

(767 posts)
10. WISCONSIN WAS CONNED
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 07:11 PM
Jan 2019

I just hope the republicans in Wisconsin wake up from their zombie drone state of mind and REMEMBER. The big screw job was FAKE on day one. The waste of time and money was criminal. I still do not know why this country does not have the technology to do what was planned?? The damn people will not HANG their hero president for this con job, but he sure was a major player who played these poor fools.....

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
12. Where's McDonald?
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 08:05 PM
Jan 2019

He was there for all the hype and hope. Now Foxconn is cutting and running. Isn't Trump going to do anything about it??? He told the country that he was the only one who could fix things. Well, here's something that needs fixing. 13,000 promised jobs have gone where the woodbine twineth. Doesn't that bother the president, who had such high praise for the public/private partnership that got Foxconn to promise all sorts of things just a year and a half ago?

a kennedy

(29,709 posts)
15. Looks like the FoxConn is back on with call from tRump.....
Fri Feb 1, 2019, 03:05 PM
Feb 2019

Foxconn says it is returning to its original plan to make flat screen panels at a new plant in Wisconsin following an appeal from President Donald Trump.

The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer caused a storm this week when it said it was considering dropping plans to build the panels at the facility, even though it said it was still anticipating hiring 13,000 workers. The company has been promised $4 billion in state and local incentives to develop the Wisconsin facility.
In a statement Friday, Foxconn said that after a call between Trump and its chairman, Terry Gao, the company has decided to stick with its manufacturing plans after all.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/tech/foxconn-wisconsin-plant-trump/index.html

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