Canada’s Datawind setting up ₹100-crore facility in Hyderabad

Canadian tablet and phone-maker Datawind is setting up a ₹100-crore manufacturing facility in Hyderabad.

The firm signed an agreement with the Telangana government here on Thursday to set up the facility near the GMR International airport here. The firm would manufacture both phones and tablets at the facility.

Datawind President and Chief Executive Officer Suneet Singh Tuli told BusinessLine that the facility would start operations in the next three months and would provide jobs to 500 people. The Hyderabad facility would have a capacity to produce 20 lakh units of phones and tablets.

“To begin with, we will start with a production of 60,000 units a month. We will scale it up over the next few months,” he said. This will be the second manufacturing facility for the firm after Amristsar facility.

Suneet was here along with a Canadian delegation that sought investment opportunities in energy, environment, infrastructure and higher education sectors. The upcoming facility in Hyderabad would be an assembly unit.

“In the second phase, we will start a fab (semiconductor fabrication) facility that will produce chips for company’s phones and tablets,” he said.