Lenovo to open first US manufacturing plant

Three business reasons — quicker, closer and custom — have prompted computer maker Lenovo to open its first US manufacturing operation in North Carolina instead of low-cost foreign locations like Mexico or China, its North American president said on Wednesday.

Lenovo expects to finish hiring 115 production workers by the end of the month at the manufacturing operation that opened in January inside an existing distribution centre in Whitsett. The company on Wednesday celebrated the US production line — small compared to its sites elsewhere.

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