NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dell Inc. said on Tuesday it plans to open a third U.S. manufacturing plant, based in North Carolina with 1,500 workers, in a rare example of a U.S. high-tech company expanding domestic production.
Dell, the world's largest personal computer maker, said the new desktop personal computer production plant will open in the Triad area of central North Carolina in the fall of 2005.
The staff will grow from 700 workers in the first year to 1,500 within five years and supply PCs to eastern U.S. businesses and consumers, Dell said. Its other U.S. plants are in Tennessee and Austin, Texas, where the company is headquartered.
Dell is the only major U.S. computer maker to have U.S. manufacturing operations, though it also has four other production plants in Ireland, Malaysia, China and Brazil.
Its big rivals depend upon contract manufacturers mostly in Asia to build PCs and other electronic products at low cost.
While all U.S. computer makers depend on electronics components from Asia, Dell's strategy is to assemble PCs as close to customers as possible, arguing that logistical and distribution costs exceed U.S. labor costs.
Dell had 22,200 U.S. workers in its latest fiscal year, 1,000 more than the prior year. It had 50,000 employees worldwide in July.
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