China ignored: Know why did Lego choose Vietnam for its first carbon neutral plant.
With businesses looking for other places for their factories to escape expensive tariffs, Vietnam has been considered as one of the key winners of the US-China trade war. Vietnamese Post correspondent Erika Na recently visited the nation, and her three-part series examines Vietnam's progress over the last four years. She explores the effects on China's status as the "world's factory" in this second section.
The first carbon-neutral factory for Lego, the largest toy manufacturer in the world by revenue, just broke ground in Asia. The US$1 billion project will cover 44 hectares (108 acres) when it opens the following year.
Modern technology will be used in the vast project, which will be powered primarily by solar energy, to mould, process, and pack the plastic interconnectable ...