A pair of Foxconn executives brought the company’s vision for its Mt. Pleasant complex to all of Gateway Technical College Wednesday.
Alan Yeung, Director of Strategic Initiatives, and Peter Buck, Chief Administrator of Foxconn’s Wisconsin Valley Science and Technology Park, spoke at the keynote session for the school's Employee Learning Day.
Yeung showed a four minute-long video that depicts what the park's first phase may look like once its built out. But he also advised that the planning process is a work in progress. "Some of you may have heard that our plans have changed," Yeung said. "We may actually change a lot more," he said without offering specifics. The anticipated initial product line has already changed at least once. Foxconn is now planning on producing smaller-sized liquid crystal display screens than what was originally envisioned.
No matter what the exact product line, company officials are confident that the Mt. Pleasant complex will be the next Silicon Valley, and that Gateway will play an important role, with Yeung describing Gateway as being at the epicenter. "We want to thank you all for laying the foundation for us to make it happen," he said.
Yeung did his undergraduate work at UW-Madison while Buck, a retired Marine Corp. colonel, is a Wisconsin native.
Buck said the company was basing Wisconn Valley on a formula used elsewhere---combining research, development and manufacturing with an educational component.
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