Abstract: The zipper giant moved its headquarters to Vietnam, and its production in Vietnam expanded 100 times in 25 years
YKK zipper
Recently, YKK has moved its headquarters to Vietnam.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves, and people from all walks of life have different opinions.
As a Japanese company and the largest market share in the zipper and button industry, YKK has factories all over the world, but it has moved its group headquarters to Vietnam.
The top page of the YKK official website
YKK Vietnam was established in 1998 as the 10th fastening company in the ASAO (ASEAN South Asia and Oceania) region. Over the course of 25 years, YKK's production in Vietnam has increased 100 times, while its employees have increased by 7 times. Most of the production stages in YKK Vietnam, including dyeing, are automated, which also explains the important role of automation in the manufacturing industry to some extent.
YKK Vietnam official website
As the world's largest zipper manufacturer, YKK has an annual output of more than 8 billion zippers, and the largest YKK factory is located in Georgia, USA, with a daily output of more than 700,000 zippers. At present, YKK is still the largest market share holder in the zipper and button industry. Most Uniqlo products use YKK zippers, while Nike and Adidas brands use about 70-80%, and have even become the standard for Adinike and some European and American luxury brands.
YKK's overseas factories are distributed
Some people say that Japan's business environment is too poor, and Japanese technology giants such as Panasonic, Toshiba, and Sony have also moved their factories from Japan, which is worthy of collective reflection by the Japanese.
In fact, it is easy to find that with a large number of well-known sports brands setting up factories in Vietnam, YKK, as an important part of the global supply chain, has made it more convenient to supply products directly to brand processing factories in Vietnam, and Vietnam's status and manufacturing level are also further improved. At the same time, Vietnam can also provide YKK with a large number of cheap labor and land resources.
Under the temptation of such resources, more and more capital is pouring into Vietnam, on the one hand, capital enterprises have saved costs, and on the other hand, Vietnam has also achieved further development because of these resources.
Samsung Vietnam factory
Some people say that Japan's inability to retain these companies will affect its domestic economic development and will slowly become an empty shell.
Some people say that as a country with very limited land resources, Japan can make better use of the resources of other countries and regions, greatly save all kinds of resources of Japan, and feed back its own development. YKK may be one example of this.
It is also said that Vietnam will replace China and become the world's factory!
What do you think?
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At the same time, how to continue to maintain our speed of progress, catch up with the former, and far behind competitors like Vietnam is a question that all garment practitioners must think about.
Perhaps, just like YKK's factory in Vietnam, we should pay attention to automation and intelligence.
In this regard, Lilang's smart factory is a good example for us to learn from and reference!
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On April 28th, I sent a private message to Brother Xiao to go to the scene, and let's go to Lilang Benchmarking Factory to see and learn!