Samsung launches world’s largest mobile phone factory in India

The Korean electronics giant’s new manufacturing facility in India will have the capacity to assemble 120 million smartphones per year

A woman passes by an advertisement of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphone at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung has built what it claims as the world’s largest mobile phone factory on the outskirts of the Indian capital of New Delhi. Photo: AP

Samsung Electronics, the South Korean maker of Galaxy smartphones, said it is opening the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturing facility on the outskirts of the Indian capital, as smartphone demand in the country surges.

The factory was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday. Both leaders visited the facility adjoining New Delhi, according to India’s ministry of external affairs.

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