Throughout the years, Sony built several more TV plants in Japan.īut around 2009 to 2010, the company started selling many of their plants in the country. Today, some plants in Japan continue to operate and manufacture TV.īut the production is comparably small than before.Īnd the TV produced in Japan is for the local markets only. So, all Sony TVs you see in the market outside Japan are from different plants worldwide. The biggest Sony TV manufacturing plant outside Japan is in Malaysia. Trivia: it’s considered as the main Sony development and production facility.Ī large percentage of Sony TVs came from the plant in Malaysia.Īnd it produces TVs for Japan, Malaysia, other Asian countries, Australia, and many more. The same location where the Sony R&D centers are.īut in September 2020, Sony stopped operation in its main TV factory in Penang. And it moved its production from Penang to Selangor, Malaysia. “Are they stopping production in Malaysia?” The company announced that the plant would officially shut down in March 2022. TV productions in Malaysia will continue.
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The company only wanted to upgrade its production system. In 2021, Sony has deployed its first unmanned TV manufacturing in Malaysia. The plant in Selangor will continue to produce Sony TVs.īut this time, it will be operated by robots and machines. The Sony TVs in the Americas region came from as Sony TV plant in Tijuana, Mexico.
Want to see what Sony’s CRT TV factory looks like? Then watch this video! This plant has been producing Sony TVs for decades already. It was only in 2005 that Sony started manufacturing LCD TVs in this plant. Trivia: Tijuana, Mexico houses many manufacturing plants by different companies worldwide.īut in 2009, Sony Baja California sold 90% of its shares to a Taiwanese manufacturing company. That company is Hon Hai, which is popularly known as Foxconn. Part of that transaction is handing out Sony’s Mexico plant to Foxconn. Since then, Foxconn has manufactured Sony TVs for the Americas region. So, every Sony TV you see in the Americas region today is manufactured by Foxconn. The company, Sony, has left the American market. There are two TV manufacturing plants in Slovakia. One is in Trnava, which started operating in 1996. This plant focused on manufacturing TV components. And those components are shipped to other Sony TV factories around the world. In 2006, the plant began production of LCD TVs for the European market.īut that isn’t the end of the journey of Sony TVs in Europe. To meet the demand of Europeans for LCD TVs, Sony built a larger TV factory in Nitra, Slovakia, in 2007. The next year, the company announced that they’re expanding their production for LCD TVs. Some production lines in the Trnava plant were relocated to the new Nitra plant. Sony aimed to make this plant their biggest LCD TV manufacturing facility. Until 2010, when Sony also sold the plant in Nitra to Foxconn. Learn more: Will smart TVs become obsolete? #5: China Today, Foxconn manufactures Sony TVs in Europe. When Sony sold its TV factories in Mexico and Slovakia, it made a co-established factory in China. In 2011, Sony and Foxconn decided to build an LCD TV manufacturing plant in Shandong, China. That plant produces about 30 million panels each year.Īnd that’s why the plant in Shandong is recognized as the largest LCD TV plant. “Is it possible that my Sony TV is from China?” Now, Foxconn manufacturer Sony TVs for local Chinese consumers.
That’s less likely to happen unless you buy your TV see from China.įoxconn manufactures Sony TVs for Americans in its plant in Mexico.
And it manufactures Sony TVs for Europeans in its plant in Slovakia. Sony used to have its own TV manufacturing plant in India.īut due to losses, the plant closed down.Īnd manufacturing of Sony TVs in India stopped for about a decade.
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