"Rob Schmitz films inside Foxconn to reveal how iPads are really made"

• Journalist given access to film Foxconn factories 
• He estimates new iPad made every two seconds 
• Process is repeated hundreds of times a day 

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VIDEO footage has revealed how a new iPad is produced every two seconds in Apple's controversial Chinese factories.

Marketplace’s journalist Rob Schmitz produced the exclusive video when given special access to the Foxconn factories in the southern city of Shenzhen by Apple public relations.

Schmitz reported every single part of an iPad is fastened by a worker in seconds, and repeated hundreds of times a day.

He said the factory is separated into working groups which are each responsible for different parts of the iPad - from the chip, the motherboard and the battery to the touch screen.

Schmitz called the work hypnotic, and their movements engineered to be efficient as possible.

“At the end of each line, workers box up iPads as fast as they can,” he said.

“After timing several lines, I arrived at a very rough estimate: one new iPad every two seconds. It’s believed that Apple makes between $200 and $300 off each iPad. If that’s true, the people in this room help Apple make more than $10 million in pure profit, each day.”

Schmitz is the second journalist after Bill Weir, of the US ABC’s Nightline, to be granted an exclusive tour inside Foxconn.

Victims injured by an explosion at the Foxconn factory arrive at a hospital in Chengdu. Working conditions at the factory, which produces Apple's iPad 2, have been the subject of an online petition and calls for boycott

Apple opened up the secretly guarded factories after an independent labour audit announced workers often put in 60-hour weeks - violating Chinese law.

Foxconn was the site of nine suicide attempts and seven confirmed deaths over the past year. An estimated 360 workers reportedly threatened suicide last year after their requests for a salary increase were rejected.