Apple’s iPhone maker Foxconn is doubling production capacity to 400,000 units a day.

The move will cost $1.1bn and will see the company's facility at Foxconn Science Park in Zhengzhou, China, become the world's biggest phone factory, accounting for $20bn in sales revenue in 2012.

China Daily reports [1] that the Zhengzhou factory currently pumps out 200,000 Apple iPhones daily and employs 130,000 people.

Foxconn employs 1.2 million people, with about 1 million based on the Chinese mainland.

The Taiwanese-based company also operates a manufacturing facility in Brazil and is currently trying to iron out local legal issues to fulfil a $12bn investment to build an iPad manufacturing plant in the region. ®

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1. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-12/26/content_14325964.htm

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