Taiwan’s Wistron aims to run $24.5 mln Vietnam plant next month

Taiwan-headquartered Wistron, a top electronics provider and a supplier to Apple, plans to officially start operating its $24.5 million investment in the northern province of Ha Nam next month.

Winstron aims to install equipment for the factory this month and enter official operation from January 2025, according to a recent project report.

The project is set to employ 530 people, including 60 foreigners. The employment features 400 manual workers.

Wistron received an adjusted investment registration certificate for its project, named Victory II, in November. The project will cover 6.8 hectares in Dong Van III Industrial Park.

It will have an annual capacity of three million LCD displays, equivalent to 13,140 tons; 5.87 million laptops, or 15,256 tons; 374,400 desktop computers, or 6,551 tons; 1.2 million VoIP phones, or 1,238 tons; 300,000 motherboards, or 21 tons; and others.

Prior to Victory II, Winstron has invested $363.9 million in Victory I, another project in Ha Nam province.

Wistron started the first-phase construction in April 2020 and put the factory into operation in December 2021. For the second phase, the firm kicked off construction in June 2023 and plans to put it into operation in April 2025.

The factory is now operational with 2,900 workers, and employment is set to increase to 14,470 after the expansion.

In the first phase, the investment’s annual output includes 228,000 laptops, 600,000 motherboards, 700,000 desktops, 100,000 webcams, and 720,000 docking stations.

For the second phase, the annual output will rise to four million laptops, six million LCD displays, 1.5 million docking stations, one million motherboards, two million desktops, 375,000 webcams, and others.