Catcher Technology, that laptopbehuizingen manufactures for Apple, Dell, Lenovo and Sony, under pressure from the government production facilities in China are closed. The company cites environmental concerns as the reason.
Chinese citizens living in the vicinity of the factory of Catcher Technology in the province of Suzhou, live, would have complained about odour nuisance. Accordingly, the authorities have decided to the manufacturing facility immediately to stop laying, the Financial Times reports. Catcher Technology would be technical adjustments in the challenged plant should make before the relevant parts again. How long this process will take, is not yet known.
The Taiwanese Catcher Technology warns that its production capacity by the close of the factory or fabrieksonderdelen this month with a fifth, will decrease. The company makes, among other things, the aluminum unibody enclosures for Apple’s Macbook Air and Macbook Pro. Also, it laptopbehuizingen for Dell, Lenovo and Sony. What impact this will have on the availability of certain laptops is still not entirely clear, but the company claims that other manufacturers may be a part of the demand can absorb.
The mandatory closing of a production facility, shows that in each case a part of the Chinese government the possibility of harm to humans and the environment now takes seriously. In August published Chinese environmentalists have a list of companies that are components for Apple and it is not very closely would take with the environmental regulations in the country. Also a private study of Apple showed that certain eighty suppliers of hazardous substances are not safe knew to save or that there is wrong with was presented. Also were 137 employees of supplier Wintek in contact with the hazardous substance n-hexane.