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Electronics Production | October 23, 2019
GPV expands warehouse in Thailand
GPV’s electronics production facility in Thailand has officially opened its new, 2,300 square metres warehouse.
The old warehouse, with a size if 900 square metres, will be converted into an additional electronics production area. The new warehouse (7,5 m high shelves are installed in a narrow pattern and material handling will be done by a VNA forklift truck) and electronics production area will be fully operational in December 2019, a small press announcement reads.
While GPV Electronics’ facility in Thailand currently uses 15’000 square metres of production space, plans to increase production area with a further 5'000 square metres already exist for 2022.
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