The new facility will produce up to two million units a year.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the opening of the factory in northern Vietnam, 100 kilometres east of Hanoi in the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park in Haiphong City. The site, which cost ¥9 billion ($90.2 million/€66.7 million) will be able to produce two million units a year for the OEM.
The machines set to be built at the factory include copiers, digital colour MFPs and a host of other printers, with the 57,563 square-metre site “mark[ing] a major milestone for [Fuji Xerox] in Vietnam”, the newspaper added. The factory will “serve as its key manufacturing hub globally” outside of China, and “aims to meet increasing global demand” for new printers.
In terms of printer components, Fuji Xerox noted that they will be “sourced from all over Asia to reduce cost”, with the factory “ultimately produc[ing] products mainly for emerging markets in the Asia Pacific as well as for the US and Europe”. The site was planned and first announced in August 2012, as The Recycler previously reported.