Monday, October 17, 2011

Apple's Unibody MacBook enclosure manufacturer ordered to shut down over environmental concerns



According to 9to5mac , the partial shutdown of key Apple manufacturer Catcher Technology due to environmental concerns could lead to supply constraints for company's MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lineups.


Financial Times reports:
In an emergency announcement on Sunday night, Taiwan’s Catcher Technology (2474:TAI), one of the world’s biggest makers of metal casings for notebook PCs, said it had been ordered to close part of its plant in China’s Suzhou province by regulators, after local residents complained of bad odours generated by the plant.
The Apple's current MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lineups is probably the main reason Catcher is one of the biggest maker of metal casings for computers. The company expects the shutdown to cut sales by a fifth in October and Catcher's president Allen Horng had this say at a press conference on Monday:
“Shipments to our customers will inevitably be affected. We already asked them to make adjustments to their (casings) procurement.”
(via 9to5mac) 

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