While many details around Foxconn's plans for Wisconsin have remained fluid since the Taiwanese manufacturing giant's contract was approved in 2017, we now know two of the specific products the company plans to assemble in Mount Pleasant.
Foxconn announced last week that it has partnered with Qolsys, maker of security and smart-home technology systems, to manufacture its devices at the Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park in Mount Pleasant. Foxconn will make the San Jose, Calif.-based company's IQ Panel home security screen system under its Foxconn Industrial Internet (Fii) unit.
The Qolsys announcement follows news earlier this month that Foxconn plans to assemble Austin, TX-based robotic coffee maker Briggo at its Mount Pleasant facility in a deal with Fii.
Last week Fii gained approval for a 261,000-square-foot manufacturing building, which is slated to open in 2020. Foxconn is also in construction on a roughly 1-million-square-foot LCD screen fabrication plant in Mount Pleasant.
Foxconn has faced scrutiny after the specifics of what it planned to build in Wisconsin have changed over the past several months, and its timeline has fallen behind schedule. Foxconn's incentive package was the largest the U.S. has ever offered to a foreign manufacturer.
The company says it's still committed to creating 13,000 jobs as initially promised.
