Vietnam
Electronics company Molex announced on Friday it is expanding its
existing manufacturing operations in Hanoi to include a new
16,000-sq.-m. (172,228-sq.-ft.) facility. Molex said the expansion will
help support the growing demand for its products that are used in
applications such as smartphones, TVs, home appliances, test equipment
and medical devices. “Molex has operated in Vietnam for 15 years and
this expansion represents our long-term commitment to the country and
the community,” said Joe Nelligan, CEO, Molex. The fully integrated
connector manufacturing facility will feature advanced robotics,
high-speed injection molding, stamping, plating and automated assembly
processes along with tooling fabrication and reliability lab testing
capabilities. The company’s most recent expansions before this were
within its Phillips-Medisize med-tech company’s facility investments in
Katowice, Poland; Little Rock, Arkansas; and St. Crox Meadows in the
company’s home state of Wisconsin.
India
As reported by The Hindu Businessline and other news organizations,
Taiwan-based iPhone manufacturer Pegatron last Friday inaugurated its
new plant at Mahindra World City in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Chennai is also
where Foxconn recently announced it would make the iPhone 14. The
Economic Times observed that “Taiwanese manufacturers are diversifying
rapidly to other Asian destinations amid stringent anti-Covid-19
policies in China, and the ripple effect of Taiwan’s geopolitical
tensions with China.” In the company’s 2021 annual report, released in
early 2022, Pegatron stated that it “has been actively finetuning its
global deployment production capacity in recent years, and continues to
build and expand new production bases in Vietnam, India and North
America.” Pegatron’s manufacturing footprint, according to that annual
report, includes Suzhou, Shanghai, Kunshan and Chongqing in China;
Juarez, Mexico; Ostrava, Czech Republic; Taoyuan and Xindian in Taiwan;
and sites in Indonesia, Vietnam and India.
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