The LEGO Group announced plans to train hundreds of its Vietnamese factory employees in high-tech production in Jiaxing, China. Employees will learn the skills and knowledge necessary for operating at the company’s new factory in southern Vietnam, which will open next year.
LEGO employees headed to Jiaxing will participate in on-the-job training with hands-on learning. They will be trained by both employees of the Jiaxing factory and additional international factory employees. Employees from LEGO’s Billund, Denmark and Czech Republic factories are also on-hand in China to train employees from Vietnam. Jiaxing employees are focused on molding training, while European employees are dedicated to showing their colleagues the ins and outs of packing.
Our team members are our most important assets. I’m incredibly thankful for the close collaboration we have had with other LEGO factories around the world to design trainings that provide our colleagues with best-in-class knowledge into the scale and technology behind what we are building at the site. These trainings are essential in ensuring operational readiness and are the foundation on which future team successes are built."
This is not the first exchange of factory employees. The Jiaxing factory hosted Vietnamese workers for a week in August.
LEGO will open its Vietnamese factory in the first half of 2025. The company reports construction is 85% percent complete and is on track to begin test production at the end of 2024. The LEGO Group announced the construction of the Vietnamese factory in 2021. The company plans to create more than 4,000 jobs over the next 15 years.
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