Taiwan’s Foxconn Electronics Inc., one of Orange County’s largest contract electronics makers, has closed its Fullerton operations.
The company, which makes PCs, components and telecommunications gear, has moved most of its local workers to the City of Industry in the past few weeks, according to real estate brokers. Foxconn also operates under the Q-Run Technology Co. name.
A large portion of the company’s local operations already had been relocated to a plant in Dallas earlier this year.
Foxconn, a unit of Taiwan’s Hon-Hai Precision Industry Co., had been leasing nearly 406,000 square feet of space in the Fullerton Distribution Center, on East Lambert Road near the city line with Brea.
The building,one of the larger industrial spaces in OC,largely is empty now and is being marketed for lease by the local office of CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.
At its peak, about 800 Foxconn workers had been employed at the Fullerton site, which was used for computer assembly. The company has seen a few rounds of layoffs during the past year.
The Business Journal estimated that the company employed about 600 people at the 18-acre Fullerton site as of last November.
Based on employee count, Foxconn had been OC’s second-largest contract electronics maker, behind Santa Ana’s Express Manufacturing Inc., according to the Business Journal’s November list.
For more on this story, see the Aug. 10 edition of the Business Journal.
