Industry sources suggest Apple will not cease its manufacturing business arrangement with Foxconn, even as questions over the Chinese company’s alleged interrogation tactics continue to mount.

Citing Taiwanese sources, DigiTimes said speculation that Apple would end its partnership with Foxconn is unlikely to come to pass.

“Players from the component sector said such a change is unlikely to happen because product development involves collaboration on technologies that cannot be easily transferred to other makers,” the report states.

This as allegations have surfaced that Apple investigated complaints about Foxconn well before the alleged suicide of a 25-year-old Chinese man last week. According to eWeek, Apple audited Foxconn in 2006 after reports surfaced in a British newspaper about supposed poor working conditions in the Chinese factories.

This month, the company’s foreign factories came under fire again, as a new investigation found that 45 of the 83 factories that built iPhones and iPods in 2008 weren’t paying valid overtime rates, and 23 weren’t even paying some of their workers China’s minimum wage.

All of this bad publicity can’t be good for Apple, so there must a lot of money at stake if they did change suppliers.