Western Digital granted permission to expand HDD production facility in Thailand

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The Board of Investment (BOI) of the Kingdom of Thailand has approved Western Digital's plan to expand its hard disk drive production facility in the country. If Western Digital proceeds with this plan, this will be the first significant expansion of its HDD production capacity in years.

In total, Western Digital plans to invest ฿23 billion ($689 million) in the expansion of its 'HDD production and related equipment operations' in Bang Pa-In Industrial Estate, Ayutthaya Province, and 304 Industrial Park in Prachinburi Province, as noted by The Register. Western Digital has been operating in Thailand since 1997, employing over 28,000 people. The expansion will create over 10,000 jobs for Thai personnel and benefit related businesses by utilizing domestic raw materials such as electronic circuit boards (PCBA), metal and plastic parts, and PSUs.

Anton Shilov
Contributing Writer

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

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    Not that it is a problem yet (see 2011), but Ayutthaya sometimes suffers flooding and the levels are high this year.
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