The company, which has shifted the project’s emphasis from manufacturing, said it would include a plant that turns out displays for consumer products.
Foxconn, the Taiwan-based consumer electronics giant, said Friday that it was committed to building a manufacturing facility in Wisconsin after a conversation between the company’s chairman and President Trump.
In a statement, the company said it “is moving forward with our planned construction of a Gen 6 fab facility,” a type of plant that turns out displays for consumer products.
Foxconn did not say when the conversation between Mr. Trump and Foxconn’s chairman, Terry Gou, took place or who initiated it.
Mr. Trump hailed the announcement Friday in a Twitter post, calling it “great news.”
The development comes after a tumultuous few days in which Foxconn sent mixed signals about its proposed $10 billion facility in Wisconsin — an investment that was announced in 2017 by Mr. Trump at a White House event with Mr. Gou.
It was not immediately clear how many manufacturing jobs the company would ultimately create and whether it would meet Foxconn’s original goals.
The project, with a promise of 13,000 manufacturing jobs, became a focus of political contention in Wisconsin over the $4 billion in tax credits and other inducements that it involved over a 15-year period.
