Taiwan-based Foxlink Group has opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, as part of its major expansion of high-precision electronic component manufacturing in the U.S. The facility, located at 4600 Alliance Gateway Freeway, is expected to create approximately 900 jobs at full capacity.
Advanced Manufacturing in Fort Worth
The new Foxlink plant in Hillwood’s AllianceTexas development is one of several new advanced manufacturing sites now calling Fort Worth home. According to Jack Barkley, vice president at Hillwood, the AllianceTexas area has proven attractive to global manufacturers.
Freddy Kuo, newly named CEO of Foxlink Group, stated that the location will support a critical phase of Foxlink’s surface mount technology and final assembly, testing, and packaging production. The Fort Worth factory is key to Foxlink’s aggressive growth plans, with the goal of showcasing what manufacturing should look like in the future.
The innovation at the plant is not limited to the factory’s manufacturing lines. A robot dog is undergoing testing at the site, and the company is deploying physical AI, meaning artificial intelligence systems embedded in machines that can perceive, reason about, and act within the real world, on the production floor.
Foxlink did not disclose the investment amount for the new site, but according to filings with the Texas Departments of Licensing and Regulation, the company is spending $9.2 million to renovate the 147,780-square-foot facility.
Growing Advanced Manufacturing in AllianceTexas
Foxlink is not the only Taiwanese electronics manufacturer growing a presence in Fort Worth. Taiwan-based Wistron plans to establish two AI supercomputer manufacturing facilities in Fort Worth’s AllianceTexas development, investing $761 million and creating more than 800 jobs.
The growth of advanced manufacturing at AllianceTexas is expected to continue, with recent investments including Celestica, which is investing $876 million to build a 1 million-square-foot campus at Alliance Center North to produce AI data center infrastructure and liquid-cooling systems, with plans to employ 1,700.
Original reporting: Fort Worth Report — read the source article.
