Text 13 Sep 1 note BLOG Week 4 – Globalisation and the New Economy

LCD Manufacturing

I wanted to investigate manufacturers of LCD displays for my week four blog. On my search I came across a company named Orient Display, a company producing LCD screens and technology for various applications. Some of these applications include portable devices such mobile phones, mp3 players, cameras, and GPSs as well television/computer screens – pretty much anything that could contain an LCD display they have a solution for. The website claims that they are to be able to produce 480,000 square metres of LCD panel and 2,000,000 pieces of LCD module per year. Orient Display is a based in North America with offices in Canada and the USA, and its factory located in Shenzhen, China. The website focus’ heavily on their China production boasting factory features such cheap labour force (employing 40 engineers and 860 skill workers) and advanced management (the website even has a factory tour link). Perhaps the most interesting feature they highlight, in relation to this weeks lecture, is the factory’s “convenient transportation, just a bridge away from Hong Kong” (Orient Display Ltd, 2009). I think this is referring to the ease to access to Hong Kong’s busy container port so that goods can be transported quickly and efficiently worldwide. According to the Hong Kong Port Development Council the port of Hong Kong port is one of the busiest and “one of the world’s most efficient container ports by handling 24.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). The port of Hong Kong is a major hub port in the global supply chain with 450 container liner services per week to over 500 destinations worldwide” (Hong Kong Port Development Council, 2009). According to Orient Display they can complete Custom LCD Sampling in 2-4 weeks, Custom Module Sampling in 3-5 weeks, LCD Panel Production in 3-4 weeks, and Module Production in 4-6 weeks (Orient Display Ltd, 2009). This means that in potentially as little as 12 weeks a product can be sampled and produced, then container shipped from Hong Kong. The process is very quick.

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