Sonion to Build State-of-the-Art Production Site in Vietnam

(PRWEB) October 12, 2005

Sonion, world pioneer and leader in miniature acoustical components today announced plans for a state-of-the-art, 10,000 square meter production and warehouse facility outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The facility is on schedule to be completed by the fourth quarter 2006.

Sonion offers the industry’s largest and most innovative range of components for hearing instruments and a full range of acoustical components for mobile phones. Its customers are the globally leading hearing instrument manufacturers and mobile phone manufacturers. The company strives to be their preferred development partner and component supplier.

The Ho Chi Minh City plant is key to the company’s global strategy as it supports continual double digit growth through innovative and cost efficient solutions.

The facility in Ho Chi Minh City is one of the many initiatives Sonion has undertaken to position the company for capturing a larger segment of the hearing instruments and mobile phone components market. The company also plans to expand alliances with local suppliers and to launch leading edge products for its customers.

‘Sonion remains focused on strategies that enable us to better serve customers world-wide, continue to gain market share and expand into new market opportunities such as medical devices, while tightly managing operational costs in this challenging economic environment,’ said President & CEO, Peter U. Scheel. ‘Our number one goal is to better serve our diverse customer base with cost effective products for applications such as hearing instruments, mobile phones, PDAs, headsets and medical devices.’

The Ho Chi Minh City facility is designed to produce Sonion’s transducers for hearing instruments, professional audio and mobile terminals, including silicon microphones based on MEMS technology, for export to the global market. Part of the production equipment needed will be transferred from Sonion’s existing facilities in Poland and China.

With the new factory, Sonion strengthens the supply and logistic channel to its customers, provides needed manufacturing capacity and spreads production exposure over three global facilities – Poland, China and soon to be Vietnam.

‘We chose Vietnam primarily because it is an excellent, emerging country for production. It has a large population of 80 million people with an abundance of young, energetic and highly literate persons. Vietnam is also close to our China facilities and the majority of our customers,’ said Executive Vice President, Jørn Bjerregaard-Nielsen.

‘From a purely strategic business perspective, these new facilities will support our determined goals for the future and Sonion’s ambition to grow even stronger than our markets,’ he said.

About us:

At Sonion, we are 3000 committed employees who work jointly at becoming our customers' preferred development partner and supplier of miniature components. We do this by innovatively and efficiently developing, manufacturing and marketing electroacoustical and electromechanical solutions for our customers that manufacture hearing instruments; mobile terminals; headsets and medical devices. Sonion has facilities in Denmark, Poland, the Netherlands, the USA and the People's Republic of China.

To read more about Sonion visit us at http://www.sonion.com.

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