Samsung‘s smartphone factory in Vietnam has reached a remarkable milestone. Located in the Thai Nguyen province of the Southeast Asian country, the factory has produced a billion mobile devices in its lifetime. It churned out the one billionth product, a Galaxy S24 Ultra, on Wednesday, April 17. SEVT (Samsung Electronics Vietnam Thai Nguyen), as the factory is known, organized an event to celebrate the milestone.
Samsung factory produces one billion devices in ten years
Established in 2013, SEVT is one of Samsung’s largest factories globally. Along with Galaxy phones, the factory makes various other products such as smartwatches, TWS earbuds, and chargers. It recently produced its one billionth product, achieving a remarkable milestone ten years after its inception. “This is an extremely impressive and proud milestone that few phone factories in the world have achieved,” the company said in a press release.
The celebratory event was attended by SEVT’s General Director Mr. Park Sung Ho. General Directors of five other Samsung factories in Vietnam, representatives of the Trade Union executive committee, management levels, and employee representatives of SEVT functional departments were also present during the ceremony. The company played a video recreating the journey from the first to one billionth product at the event.
Samsung also made special trophies marking the history of milestones from 100 million to 900 million products. Automated mobile robots brought the trophies to the stage. According to the company, SEVT manufactured its 100 millionth product in 2015. It was a Galaxy Note 5. The Galaxy S7 in 2016, S8 in 2017, S9 in 2018, S10 in 2019, and S20 in 2020 respectively marked the milestones from 200 million to 600 million products.
The 700 millionth product manufactured by SEVT was a Galaxy Note 20. The Galaxy Z Flip 3 earned the distinction of being the 800 millionth product, while the honor of the 900 millionth product went to the Galaxy S22 Ultra. The Galaxy S24 Ultra fittingly achieved the huge milestone of the one billionth device churned out by Samsung’s massive factory in Vietnam. It is the best smartphone to come out of the Korean firm’s doors yet.
Samsung has five more factories in Vietnam
Vietnam is a huge manufacturing hub for Samsung. It operates five more factories in the county. Its Bac Ninh factory, which kicked off the Korean firm’s heavy investments in Vietnam in 2008, has already produced more than 1.13 billion products. The company also has a retail unit and a Research and Development Center in the capital city of Hanoi.
“Samsung started producing the first mobile phone in 1988. To date, the total output of Samsung phones produced globally is more than 6 billion products. The time to reach the number of the first 1 billion Samsung phone products in the world was 21 years, but for SEVT alone, it only took 10 years to achieve that output. That is enough to show the strength and pride of our legal entity,” Ho said (Google translated from Vietnamese).