PANDORA officially opens modernized and green crafting facility in Thailand

The facility is built to further PANDORA’s long-term growth plans
PANDORA officially opens modernized and green crafting facility in Thailand

PANDORA officially opened the new, highly modernized and green crafting facility in Lamphun near Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. The new facility is built to further PANDORA’s long-term growth plans, and is the first in a line of strategic initiatives to meet increasing demand. The location of Lamphun close to Chiang Mai, 800 km north of Bangkok and PANDORA’s main production site, helps to maximize stability and minimize risks.

“The site in Lamphun is only the first in a line of strategic initiatives. Over the next years, we will expand production capacity at our current site in Bangkok further, investing a total of DKK 1.8 billion in the period 2015 to 2019,” says President and CEO Anders Colding Friis, PANDORA. “With our dedicated and skilled craftspeople in Thailand, located in Bangkok and now Lamphun, we are very well suited to meet future demands from our consumers,” says Anders Colding Friis.

Due to its innovative design, the new facility is prepared to facilitate an even more complex production setup, enabling PANDORA to pursue its strategy to expand its product range and at the same time improve lead time.

Combining traditional craftsmanship and modern workflow the new facility, which will eventually employ up to 5,000 people, is introducing new ways to increase effectiveness and better control production costs without compromising quality and the hand-finished uniqueness of each piece of PANDORA jewellery.

“Our consumer’s increasing demands and expectations on improved flexibility are met by our new facility in Lamphun, where craftsmanship walks hand-in-hand with highly effective LEAN-oriented production principles creating a state-of-art production system” says Senior Vice President Thomas Touborg.

Due to the architecture and design of the site, the new production setup offers come of the best working conditions and most modern production facilities of its kind in Asia. It has achieved the LEED certificate (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), and meets the highest demands in CSR and sustainability.

“The facility will set new standards for the jewellery industry in terms of scale, speed, green profile and modernity,” says General Manger of the facility Lars R. Nielsen.


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