Taiwan-based maker Foxconn starts display manufacturing factory in Vietnam
Taiwan-based maker Foxconn starts display manufacturing factory in Vietnam
Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics turned out the first batch of displays this week at its $26 million factory in Vietnam, as reported by Reuters.
Foxconn Electronics announced the first batch of display screens in Quang Ninh
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Most of the 20,000 screens to be produced each year at the factory in the northern province of Quang Ninh are destined for export, the government said in a statement.
“Foxconn is preparing to expand the project and form a production complex,” it added, saying the plan would make the company the leading exporter in the province.
The nation of 96 million has become a key production base for firms such as South Korea’s Samsung Electronics to LG Electronics Inc. after it signed several free trade pacts.
Foxconn is to expand the Quang Ninh factory, which took a year to build, to eventually produce a million display screens and televisions, for a total export revenue of about $250 million next year, the government said.
That figure is to rise to $1 billion in later years, it added.
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, set up its first factory in Vietnam in 2007 in the northern province of Bac Ninh.
