Taiwan company presents US$ 12 .2 billion project
Valor Econômico
Investments from in high technology companies in Brazil marked the first stage of the visit of President Dilma Rousseff to China and she took advantage of the opportunity to ask for a "leap" in the relationship between both countries and concrete efforts in the binational production of scientific and technological innovation. Dilma asked, at the opening of the "Brazil-China High-Level Dialogue" seminar, partnerships of high-tech companies of both countries, "not only with the transfer of technology, but with joint mechanisms of technological research in order to develop legitimately binational products".
The most surprising announcement was made Dilma by the International President of the Taiwanese Foxconn, Terry Gou, who informed it will begin, in November, to assemble, with imported components, the iPad, the Apple tablet, in their plants in Brazil, and presented an investment project of US$ 12 billion in five to six years, for the manufacture in the country of TFT (Thin Film Transistor)-type liquid crystal screens, used in the iPad, next-generation phones, televisions and computer screens.
Should it be made, the investment, probably in the São Paulo city of Jundiaí, will involve the construction of a real digital city. The Brazilian Government requires the participation of a national partner, which would have to invest part of the US$ 12 billion, and it studies the requests of Foxconn, which include federal tax exemptions, such as Cofins and IPI (Value Added Taxes), and State taxes. That would be the only plant of the kind of Foxconn, one of the largest in the sector in the Western Hemisphere, recalled the Minister of Science and Technology, Aloizio Mercadante. During the visit were also announced the plans of Huawei (US$ 350 million in the next ten years) and of ZTE (US$ 200 million) the latter on a Center for Research and Development, distribution of equipment, training, and call center in the city of Hortolândia. "It is much simpler to extract the nanofibers from that material than from wood because it's already clean and treated by the paper plants", he said.