Samsung Electronics is planning to shift a lot of its show manufacturing from China to its plant in southern Vietnam this 12 months, state media stated on Friday.
Samsung is the only largest overseas investor in Vietnam, with investments totalling $17 billion (roughly Rs. 1.29 lakh crores).
“Samsung sees Vietnam as a necessary gateway to different Southeast Asian nations and a hyperlink in its world provide chain,” state-run newspaper Tuoi Tre reported.
“The transfer will make Vietnam develop into the world’s main provider of Samsung screens.”
Samsung didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
The information comes as extra corporations look to diversify provide chains past China, after widespread disruption globally when the novel coronavirus first struck on the planet’s manufacturing powerhouse.
The South Korean tech large already produces shows in Vietnam, the place it has six factories in Vietnam and two analysis and improvement centres.
The screens might be produced within the Samsung Electronics Complicated in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Vietnam’s enterprise hub, Tuoi Tre stated.
Read More Tech News
