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AXL Shanghai (Fender joint venture): guitar plant in Shanghai, China · Guitar Story

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AXL Shanghai (Fender joint venture)

Name: AXL Shanghai (Fender joint venture)
Address: Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China^{[1, 2]}. Built for 1 brand on record.

Squier brand job, 15 Oct 2026. Shanghai joint-venture plant dated 2004 by GuitarInSite (S450); the Fuzzfaced prefix table gives CAE c.2002-06 and CXS (Shanghai) c.2007-12 (S453), so an earlier AXL plant may exist. Address not found.

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Where it is

No location is on record for this plant (China), so it is not mapped.

Brands built here

Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.

Brand	Lines	Years
Squier	Squier China	2004–2012^{[1, 2]}

Who ran the plant

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Years	Operator	Source
undated	AXL (Fender joint venture, Shanghai)	unverified^[1]

Production record

Years	Brand	Line	Role	Source
2004–2012	Squier	Squier China	full build	unverified^{[1, 2]}

Owners while this plant was building

The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.

Years	Line	Owner	Parent
2004–2012^{[3, 1, 2]}	Squier China	Fender Musical Instruments Corporation	—

Where its materials come from

No supply records for this plant yet.

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

1
Squier Factoriesgraded community
2
Serial numbers Stratocaster China and Indonesiagraded community
3
Fender Musical Instruments Corp, Form S-1/A (2012), accession 0001193125-12-298421graded primary

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