— By Plasteurope.com staff — 

Lego (Billund, Denmark; www.lego.com) officially opened its new plant in Vietnam on 9 April. With the production facility in Binh Duong province in the south of the country, the production network now comprises six locations worldwide, according to the toy company. Two of these are in Asia. From the new production facility – around 50 kilometres from the country’s largest metropolis Ho Chi Minh City – the group intends to supply the Asian markets with its ABS clamping bricks. To this end, a distribution centre is to be built in the neighbouring province of Dong Nai. Lego did not provide information on the quantity of toy bricks produced.

The dimensions of the new factory are gigantic – five buildings with a total area of 150,000 m² are located on an area of 44 hectares (around 62 football pitches). They house injection moulding production, packaging stations, warehouses, offices, and an energy centre that will supply the site entirely with renewable energy from next year onwards. Lego estimates the investment cost at USD 1 bn (EUR 913 mn).