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Boyd Expands Global Footprint With State-of-the-Art Facility in Vietnam
June 15, 2021 | Boyd CorporationEstimated reading time: 1 minute
Boyd Corporation, a world-leading innovator of engineered material and thermal management technologies, announced increased presence in Asia with the expansion of its design and manufacturing facility in Bac Ninh, Vietnam. Expanding Boyd Vietnam is in direct response to growing customer demand for regional manufacturing in Vietnam. The facility will design and manufacture thermal and engineered materials that cool, seal, and protect the latest innovations in the growing mobile, consumer, enterprise, and cloud computing electronics markets.
Boyd’s expanded Vietnam site features lean, automated manufacturing and assembly processes for high volume production of both complex thermal systems and multi-layered engineered materials. The 12,555 sq. meter expansion creates capacity in high performance air, two phase, and liquid cooling system solutions, enabling Boyd to provide the best fit solution for customers’ increasing compute, power, and thermal density requirements. Additionally, Boyd Vietnam will continue to design and manufacture advanced rotary converted solutions with world-leading tolerances and clean room manufacturing for complex, high yield, optical solutions. Boyd Vietnam’s optical solutions enhance screen brightness and clarity while minimizing display heat, reducing energy consumption, and improving battery life for more efficient, advanced display technologies.
“We work diligently to anticipate customer and market needs, continually aligning our company, its supporting footprint, and innovative technologies to stay ahead of megatrends. Post globalization and responsive regionalization strategies are driving more customers to source advanced solutions within Vietnam,” said Boyd CEO Doug Britt.
The Vietnam facility will include on-site design, testing, process, prototyping, and manufacturing engineering teams to enable highly responsive full product lifecycle and program support, ensuring Boyd can best support customers’ growth plans and accelerated speed to market for high volume, high performance applications. The state-of-the-art facility will be ISO 9001 quality management system certified, focusing on continual lean process improvement to drive speed and cost efficiency. The Vietnam expansion will also be ISO 14001 environmental management system certified and powered with renewable, high efficiency energy, helping Boyd and its customers meet increasing sustainability goals by reducing carbon footprint. “We’ve quickly scaled our talent and technologies in Boyd Vietnam to answer rising regional market demand while building on our core values of sustainability and corporate social responsibility,” Britt said.
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