India, March 15 -- B2B manufacturing startup Zetwerk inaugurated its seventh manufacturing facility in Chennai which will produce electronics components.

The 15-acre factory will manufacture control boards for washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, and IT hardware, and will employ 1,200 skilled workers at full capacity, the startup said in a statement.

The new facility was inaugurated by Union electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

"This new facility is a step towards realising India's potential in high-value electronics manufacturing," Zetwerk CEO and cofounder Amrit Acharya said.

In his address, Vaishnaw said that two electronics manufacturing clusters will be developed in Pillai Pakkam and Man...