LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it has started producing handsets in Iran with a local partner.Posted on 14 March 2007 @ 14:52 GMTProduction started this month, and the facility can make 1 million phones a year, LG spokeswoman Judy Pae said. Pae said she could not identify the Iranian partner or provide other details of the production arrangement or even the facility's location in Iran.
Maadiran Group, which describes itself as Iran's leading technology and office automation company, said on its website in a Feb. 17 press release that it began producing five models of handsets under license from LG Electronics, the world's fifth-largest manufacturer of mobile phones.
Iran's Minister of Industries and Mines Alireza Tahmasebi attended a ceremony marking the start of the phone production, the release said.