Toshiba To Build New Chip Plant In Thailand

[Bagwan]

I'd be more interested if Harry Ramsden was opening a chip factory.

[metisdead]

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[kruangfaifar]

I'm sure if there's any possible way to flood Prachinburi, the government will find some way to accomplish it. Stay tuned.

Perhaps the more telling question we likely won't see reported in the news is... how many Thais was Toshiba employing at its Thailand factories before... and how many are they going to be employing when the dust/mud settles.

That of course would tell the true story... one we're unlikely to hear.

I am pretty sure that most of the workers would be Thai. Why would you think otherwise? Some Japanese factories sent their Thai staff to Japanese factories after the floods to run temporary production facilities.I don't understand why you are trying to find a negative story in a post that Is positive for Thailand and suggests that it is still viable to build factories in Thailand. I am finding that a number of power projects located in Industrial Estates that were flooded last year are now going ahead with flood defences included in the project scope and installed with coordination with IE owners thus showing that developers are not running away or waiting for the government to find some magical cure for flooding. Flood defences have a small impact on power plant economics although varies with location

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[hyperdimension]

Were they encouraged to bid in the tablet supply fiasco? Surely a quality manufacturer producing IN THAILAND should be given a huge preference over some dodgy Chinese mob.

Even if their tablets cost twice as much, most of that would stay here causing economic stimulus.

Toshiba is not a major player in this product line.

I've just came across this new review for one of their new tablet PCs: Toshiba’s 13-inch tablet might be just what the doctor ordered

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I'm sure if there's any possible way to flood Prachinburi, the government will find some way to accomplish it. Stay tuned.

Perhaps the more telling question we likely won't see reported in the news is... how many Thais was Toshiba employing at its Thailand factories before... and how many are they going to be employing when the dust/mud settles.

That of course would tell the true story... one we're unlikely to hear.

I am pretty sure that most of the workers would be Thai. Why would you think otherwise? Some Japanese factories sent their Thai staff to Japanese factories after the floods to run temporary production facilities.I don't understand why you are trying to find a negative story in a post that Is positive for Thailand and suggests that it is still viable to build factories in Thailand. I am finding that a number of power projects located in Industrial Estates that were flooded last year are now going ahead with flood defences included in the project scope and installed with coordination with IE owners thus showing that developers are not running away or waiting for the government to find some magical cure for flooding. Flood defences have a small impact on power plant economics although varies with location

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I think you misunderstood the point of my comment above. I wasn't talking about whether the Japanese companies were likely to use some labor other than Thais... certainly not in Thailand.

I was talking about the TOTAL number of people Toshiba was employing in Thailand BEFORE the floods as compared with the TOTAL number they'll end up with when everything settles. That's going to be a meaningful number, one we probably won't hear.

Any company can shift around and relocate and repurpose plants, but none of that really tells anyone whether that company's presence in a particular country is growing, shrinking or staying the same. It's just shuffling the chairs on the desk.

Total workforce is a much better indicator, and one that's harder to fudge. I want to know how many people/Thais that Toshiba was employing before the floods, and now after them. That's a meaningful comparison.