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Another blow for embattled iPad maker Foxconn

First came the suicides. Then came the fatal explosion.

Now the Taiwanese company that toils in the shadow of high-profile clients such as Apple is facing another blow - losing its blue-chip status.

Foxconn International will be removed from Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng index, which groups the city's biggest listed companies, on Tuesday.

Shares in the money-losing company have tumbled 10% since the move was announced on 12 May and could fall further as funds tracking the index's 46 constituents adjust their portfolios.

Foxconn's woes highlight the pressures China's low-cost manufacturers are grappling with as the country's deep and cheap labour pool begins to dry up.

Foxconn counts itself as one of a number of "hidden dragons" - the huge but little known companies that manufacture goods, largely in China, for the world's biggest brands in electronics, clothing, toys and home appliances.

For instance, few people are familiar with Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings but most people own a pair of their shoes. The Taiwanese company makes a third of the world's shoes for brands such as Nike, Timberland and Rockport.

Unlike its peers, Foxconn is now a familiar name to much of the world although its rise to prominence has been for all the wrong reasons.

A dozen suicides in 2009 and 2010 ignited concern about working conditions at Foxconn's gargantuan "factory towns" where employees work, sleep and eat.

Initially dismissive of the suicides, Foxconn has since raised pay and cut working hours for its workers - usually migrants from China's poorer provinces.

It has also set up a 24-hour counselling centre, attached suicide nets to factory livings quarters at its Shenzhen plants and invited monks in to ease tension.

However, a report last month by Hong Kong watchdog group, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom), said that while Foxconn had fulfilled some of its promises, working conditions remained poor, particularly at the company's newer plants in the west of China.

At its plant in Chengdu, which exclusively produces Apple products, Sacom reported workers complained about dust, skin allergies, sore eyes and poor ventilation as well as long hours and miscalculation of wages.

These concerns about plant safety were underscored on 20 May when an explosion at the Chengdu plant killed three people.

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