Arris has announced plans to sell its Taiwan manufacturing facility to long-time partner Pegatron Corporation.
It means production of Arris’ consumer premises equipment will be moved to Pegatron’s Suzhou site in China by the end of 2018.
“Arris’s global vision is to leverage scale across a key number of global partners that allow us to concentrate on R&D, as well as anticipate the needs and expectations of our customers and their subscribers. Pegatron is a long-term, trusted manufacturing partner of ARRIS, with a proven track-record of quality and performance, and we expect the transition to be seamless for our customers,” said Jim Brennan, Arris SVP, Supply Chain, Quality & Operations.
The sale is part of the Arris supply chain strategy to simplify its manufacturing footprint.
“Today’s transaction builds on a successful 15-year relationship with Arris, during which we have helped them to deliver a range of major innovations to the global marketplace. Pegatron is proud to produce cost-effective, high-quality products; we look forward to continuing our joint success with Arris long into the future,” said Syh-Jang Liao, President and CEO, Pegatron.
Arris will continue its R&D work in Taiwan, which will include the recently acquired Ruckus operations.