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Day: July 10, 2024

South Korea to develop resource recycling industrial park in Vietnam

the-shiv July 10, 2024

Of note, despite the staggering volume of waste generated in Vietnam, waste treatment in the country remains ineffective. Currently, 70 percent of trash is buried, around 10 percent recycled and the rest, processed in other ways. According to the National Environmental Status Report in 2021, the majority of waste is taken to landfill sites, with only 20 percent meeting national sanitary requirements…

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What’s Happened to Vietnam’s Beer Market? Unpacked 2024

Mark Barnes July 10, 2024

The closure of the Heineken plant in Quang Nam, in central Vietnam, announced a week or two ago, has been big news. This is off the back of slow growth in beer sales post-pandemic and in line with falling revenues among a number of Vietnam’s major beer brewers. This has been blamed on broader economic challenges and harsher drink driving penalties, however, it is all a little more nuanced than that…

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Malaysian hardware retailer expands foothold in Vietnam

the-shiv July 10, 2024

This is in line with a rapidly growing DIY and home hardware industry in Vietnam–in 2024, revenue in the industry in Vietnam is expected to reach US$18.91 billion and will grow at an estimated compound annual growth rate of 3.13 percent from 2024 to 2028, according to data compiled by Statista…

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Amkor to push up investment in northern Vietnam by 11 years

the-shiv July 10, 2024

This will make the province one of Amkor’s most extensive facilities in the world with total funding for the project reaching $1.6 billion–a $520-million factory in the first phase was inaugurated in October 2023 and is in line with a number of other big names investing in Bac Ninh including Samsung, Fushan, Canon, and Foxconn. Of note, Bac Ninh was the second most popular province for foreign invested projects in the first quarter 2024…

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Singapore battery maker increases Vietnam investment by US$5.5 million

the-shiv July 10, 2024

The move to expand battery production capacity aligns with increasing global demand for electric vehicles–or EVs for short. The world is witnessing an explosion of EVs, with electric car sales in 2023 six times higher than in 2018, just 5 years earlier. Furthermore, global EV sales are predicted to grow from less than 45 million in 2023 to 250 million in 2030 and reach 525 million in 2035, according to the latest research by IEA…

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