Among others, Western Digital and Nikon have as a result of the large floods in Thailand and their production in the country must temporarily close. Also the automotive and chipsector are affected by the flooding.
In a statement, says Western Digital that its manufacturing facilities may still be operational, but that the production of hard drives temporarily stopped, in order to cope with the incoming water and for the safety of its employees. It also says the company that its infrastructure severely disrupted. Western Digital leaning for the production of hard disk drives heavily on the supply of locally produced components. The company expects in the coming quarter, on a limited scale only to be able to produce. In the quarter June 30, ended, shipped Western Digital total of 54 million hard drives from Thailand and Malaysia, of which sixty percent came from Thailand.
Also, Nikon saw itself compelled for its biggest manufacturing facility in Thailand to close. According to a statement from the company is the ground floor of all the buildings of the Nikon factory in Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya province flooded. This industrial area is located about 67 kilometres north of Bangkok. Nikon has the factory 6 October closed. The company enumerates currently the damage, but cannot yet say when production will resume. Nikon produces in the factory under more dslrs and lenses. Also, the new Nikon 1 series is in Shanghai produced.
ON Semiconductor and Microsemi also have their manufacturing facilities in the Rojana Industrial Park have to close. The factories are flooded, and the area is without power and is evacuated. Also Toyota has announced that the factories in the region closed, but is expected after the weekend, the production to resume.
The floods in Thailand, according to Amnat Barlee of the Thai Red Cross, the worst since 1949. About two million residents would be affected by the rising waters in the country.
