Thailand Hard Drive Factories
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Q BIG increase in hard drive price?
i go on new egg every few days just to check out some of the new technology, and i always looked at the hard drives and wondered how a 500GB HD could cost as little as $40, but i went on new egg a few days ago and notices that that same drive cost $80, but itwasn’tt just that drive that the price increased, it was every signal one, a 1TB drive that cost $80 not cost like $180
can anyone pleas tell me what happened?
A Floods in Thailand.
Hard drive manufacturers have their factories closed down. There aren’t many being manufactured now, making the prices quite high and hard drive inventories quite low.
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I believe that the query above was posed back on October 29, 2011 ─ if the response did indeed accurately explain the pricing hike, other factors will of course be involved in any similar situation in the present.
If you are really here because of an interest in Thailand hard drive factories, that topic will be covered. However, I intend to offer quite a lot more ─ I like generously spreading the relevance of the content of my posts, thereby bringing in some of the unexpected.
So don’t be afraid to explore a little.
I am laying this foundation on December 12, 2020. And even though I fully intend to add something here each and every day hereafter until the post is published, my struggle will be to get it published before the year runs out. Let’s see how I do!
[NB: I performed abominably where the completion of this lengthy (over 34,000 words) post is concerned, as you can see from the publishing date. The Christmas and New Year’s period consumed far more of my time than I wildly anticipated.]
22 Jun 2020 ─ Indo Pacific Strategy
The pandemic has suddenly raised discussion around the world about us being ‘too dependent’ on China. There are a number of facets to this thinking.
The angry voices are saying that China needs to be punished. That their failure to share information about the virus allowed it to spread and cause significant damage to the world economy. …
With a leader who can’t stand to announce bad news and spreads disinformation, a disbanded pandemic task force, chaotic coordination between states and federal government, and a sizeable population of people who insist that no one can tell them what to do, it is hard to say that the outcome, including sharing timely information with the world, would have been better. …
The more serious consideration for both companies and countries is how to diversify overall trade and individual supply chains, to limit the possible impact of any one country.
In 2011, flooding in Thailand crippled global production of magnetic hard drives. Up to 40% of hard drives were produced there, with many factories clustered into a specific region. …
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https://indopacificstrategy.wordpress.com/2020/06/22/what-do-do-about-economic-dependence-on-china/
Updated 10-Dec-2020 ─ FoodNavigator.com
Plant & Bean, a UK-based contract manufacturer, has opened Europe’s largest plant-based meat production facility. The investment is an important milestone on its strategic journey to establish what it says would be an ‘industry-first’: a global plant-based manufacturing platform. …
“… If you want to make impact you have to drive scale,” he told FoodNavigator. …
If we want to convert die-hard carnivores into plant-based diets, we need to make products as tasty as possible,” Bark told us. … Followed by China, Thailand and Brazil.
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2020/12/09/Plant-Bean-opens-Europe-s-largest-plant-based-meat-factory
6 Nov 2011 … The flooding has revealed to the world the scale of Thailand’s industrialization and the extent to which two global industries, computers and cars, rely on components made here.
Three weeks after monsoon run-off swamped more than 1,000 factories across central Thailand, the brown, corrosive floodwaters have only slightly receded, leaving the world’s largest computer makers without a reliable forecast about when crucial parts will be available once again. …
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/business/global/07iht-floods07.html
2020-11-18 ─ InfoMigrants
Blueberries, redcurrants, cloud berries. Sweden’s forests are full of these tiny jewels growing wild, but the harvest and sorting is hard work. A Deutsche Welle documentary has lifted the lid on the thousands of mostly Thai migrant workers who suffer difficult conditions for the ‘privilege’ of being allowed to work at this job every year.
The workers sorting the berries in the factories were all Thai seasonal workers … He is used to hard labor in fields around his village. … Some of the workers drive several hours from their accommodation before they can start picking berries.
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/28600/thai-migrant-workers-pay-for-the-privilege-of-picking-berries-in-sweden
30 Sep 2016 … A blog by documentary photojournalist & travel photographer Jack Kurtz about photography & photojournalism.
Thai school girls play and swim in the flood waters that have inundated the playground of their school in Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok. …
People living in the US probably best remember the flood because it took Western Digital’s hard drive factories in Thailand off line and, at the time, most of the WD drives sold in the US were made in Thailand. …
https://jackkurtzphotography.blogspot.com/2016/09/before-flood.html
Mar 12, 2020
A cluster of PC hard disk drive (HDD) supply chain makers has been formed in Thailand with Taiwan-based Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications and Quanta Storage also participating, allowing them to circumvent impacts of the coronavirus outbreak, according to industry sources. …
Don’t bother trying to access this article if you’re just a casual visitor: “The article you are trying to open requires News database subscription.” ─Garnet Barcelo
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20200312PD207.html
1 Nov 2012 … Tawan Suppapunt stands outside the wall of the main building at Western Digital’s Bang Pa-In factory, where he is managing director of hard disk drive operations, pointing to a blue line above his shoulder. The line marks the high-water point—1.8 meters from the ground—of the October 2011 flood that devastated this part of southern Thailand. Floodwaters inundated this plant, the surrounding roads, and many other factories in the region for more than a month. …
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-lessons-of-thailands-flood
Will a new old-style Defender with BMW power catch on?
Production is expected to begin in late 2021. Ineos took an important step this week in becoming an automaker, having purchased a factory for the production of its Grenadier SUV and truck. …
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusiasts/ineos-grenadier-inches-closer-to-production-after-buying-mercedes-plant/ar-BB1bN86p
8 Oct 2020 … The pandemic will not end globalisation, but it will reshape it …
The tsunami that hit Japan in 2011 cut Toyota’s production in America by nearly a third because of a shortage of parts, while flooding in Thailand inundated factories producing a quarter of the world’s hard drives. Firms began to see long supply chains as unwieldy and risky. Trade started to concentrate in regional blocks.
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/10/08/changing-places
Feb 6, 2020 ─ Nikkei Asian Review
Outbreak emerges as risk to Japanese manufacturing in Southeast Asia for first time
TOKYO — Japan’s Hoya, the world’s biggest maker of glass disks for hard-disk drives, is looking to downshift production in Vietnam and Thailand as the coronavirus outbreak in China hits customers there, Nikkei has learned. …
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Hoya-weighs-factory-slowdown-in-Vietnam-and-Thailand-on-virus-impact
Amazon U.S. • Factory Directory in Thailand 2021: สมุดรายนามโรงงานในประเทศไทย ฉบับปี 2021
Amazon U.S. • タイ工場年鑑2021: Factory Directory in Thailand 2021
Features:
“FACTORY DIRECTORY IN THAILAND 2019(pdf Book)” includes 5,247 of factories data, especially in industrial estates.– Company Name and Abbreviation
– Factory Address, Tel, Fax, E-Mail, Website
– Name of Key Executive
– Establishment Year
– Authorized Capital
– Shareholders by Nationality
– Main Shareholders
– Number of Employees
– BOI
– Line of Business, Products
– ISO
Classified into 24 Business Categories
– Petroleum, Mining, Energy
– Foodstuff
– Textile, Textile Goods
– Wood, Wooden Product
– Paper, Pulp
– Chemical
– Synthetic Resin, Plastic
– Rubber, Rubber Goods
– Leather, Fur
– Ceramic, Glass
– Iron, Non-Ferrous, Metal Goods
– Machinery
– Electric, Electronic Machinery
– Transport Machinery
– Measuring, Analytical Instrument
– Optical Apparatus, Watch
– Medical Instrument
– Silverware, Jewelry, Accessory
– Sundry Goods
– Shoe
– Transport, Warehouse
– Printing, Book Binding
– Real Estate, Construction, Interior
– Protection of Environment, Waste
Tourists in Thailand are spoiled for entertainment choice. You can visit the royal palace, learn Thai massage, take a walk on a beach, or grab the intercity bus down to Pattaya … But after the 3rd hour of flat dry brushland punctuated by the occasional hard drive factory, the monotony could get to anyone.
The website seems to have this video blocked. However, if it is the same video that I was able to locate at two locations on Dailymotion.com, this act makes no sense ─ there isn’t much at all to see. See for yourself: upload of Wednesday, April 2, 2014; and upload of Tuesday, May 12, 2015. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
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By TrueCar, The Drive … Provided by The Drive …
The incentive landscape can be challenging to navigate. Dealerships offer constantly changing specials and sales events while manufacturers offer cash back rebates, and even financing incentives. …
You don’t want to haggle too hard; be realistic and aim for something in the middle.
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25 Oct 2011 … Charles Arthur and agencies: Country is centre of world hard drive manufacture but factories have been seriously affected by floods, which could affect supplies early in 2012
The floods in Thailand which have caused widespread chaos in the country, leading to the deaths of more than 350 people after months of unusually heavy rainfall, will also have effects further afield, in a sign of the connectedness of the world economy. …
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/25/thailand-floods-hard-drive-shortage
14.12.2020 ─ automobilsport.com
The second battery factory at the site began operations in 2018 and has been producing the EQC’s battery systems since 2019. …
Together with local partner Thonburi Automotive Assembly Plant (TAAP), Mercedes-Benz Cars set up a battery production facility in Bangkok (Thailand) and began operations in 2019. …
BMW Group’s new technology flagship completes an intense tuning programme for drive and suspension systems – electric motors, four-wheel drive, charging technology, high-voltage batteries and heat management complete stress test in extremely cold conditions. …
Consistent use of synergies in the Volkswagen Group, including for hard– and software &nb more >>.
http://www.automobilsport.com/cars-tuning–37,217392,Global-battery-production-network-a-key-success-factor-in-the-Mercedes-Benz-electric-offensive,news.htm
30 Sep 2016 … A blog by documentary photojournalist & travel photographer Jack Kurtz about photography & photojournalism.
Thai school girls play and swim in the flood waters that have inundated the playground of their school in Ayutthaya province north of Bangkok. …
People living in the US probably best remember the flood because it took Western Digital’s hard drive factories in Thailand off line and, at the time, most of the WD drives sold in the US were made in Thailand. …
https://jackkurtzphotography.blogspot.com/2016/09/
Apr 28, 2020 ─ Forbes
Nearline HDDs (as well as SSDs) will be an important element in reinvigorating economic growth in 2020. With so much work being done remotely, the biggest overall opportunity is in data center services that enable people to continue working or to serve their entertainment needs.
The rest of Seagate’s HDD capacity shipments (29.1 EB) was for what they called legacy applications (mostly HDDs for mobile and desktop PCs and consumer applications) with an average capacity of 1.6 GB (or 18.2 M HDD units). …
COVID-19 caused some disruption in HDD production in CQ1 2020, particularly in China as well as in Southeast Asian HDD and HDD component production sites in countries such as Malaysia and Thailand. …
Toshiba does much of its HDD manufacturing in the Philippines, while its heads and media come from TDK and Showa Denko (Japanese companies with manufacturing plants in Japan and Southeast Asia). …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2020/04/28/covid-19-hdd-industry-impact/
17 Jul 2018 … Following the 2011 flooding in Thailand which disrupted the HDD market, analysts expected more geographic diversity in the future, though the opposite is occurring. …
Western Digital is reportedly closing a disk drive factory in Malaysia “by the end of 2019” in favor of a solid-state drive facility elsewhere in the country, which is scheduled to start production “in the coming months,” according to a report from The Register. …
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-hdd-factory-closure-means-you-may-need-to-migrate-to-solid-state/
For generations, family-run farms in South India have grown and produced the natural dye that was once colonial capital.
In the factory, a foreman scuttles around anxiously, checking for absent labourers; two sari-clad neighbours whisper to one another while combing their long hair; and stray dogs run amok, sensing the anticipation in the air. …
A five-minute drive away from the extraction unit – past simple concrete village houses and a group of children playing cricket in a coconut grove – is an inconspicuous indigo farm where the leaves are ready for harvest. …
It was after interacting with various dyeing experts from Japan, Thailand and Mexico and reading several books, that he was able to understand and revive the natural indigo fermentation process. …
Jagadda Rajappa, an expert on natural dyeing and fabrics, agrees that it is very hard to find unadulterated indigo in the Indian market.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/12/13/indigo-and-the-story-of-indias-blue-gold
20 Nov 2011 … While many of you may have read about the flooding in the Pacific rim, it turns out this terrible weather situation will also have an effect other parts of the world. …
Seagate, the second largest manufacture of hard drives, said in a statement that while their factories are all operational, getting parts is difficult. Here is part of what their statement said, “Given the volatility of the situation it is unclear what the magnitude of the supply chain disruption will be to Seagate’s hard disk drive output from its Thailand operations. …”…
https://dentaltechnologyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/while-many-of-you-may-have-read-about.html
Apr 15, 2020 ─ Harvard Business Review
What will it take to reverse a decades-long shift to global supply chains? …
The memory chips are made predominantly by three global specialists in their multi-billion-dollar fabs, and the hard drives by two firms with factories in Thailand, Malaysia, and China. The microprocessor is generally made by either Intel or AMD. …
https://hbr.org/2020/04/bringing-manufacturing-back-to-the-u-s-is-easier-said-than-done
2011 Western Digital flooding image from https://www.theverge.com
19 Mar 2020 ─ Daily Republic
Mar. 19– Thailand‘s IT spending will be subdued this year, with meagre or flat growth as the best case scenario because the coronavirus outbreak is taking a heavy toll on the segment, according to tech pundits.
Weeradej Panichwisai, senior research manager of IDC Thailand, the local unit of the global research firm, said the company has downgraded IT spending to a 10% contraction because of the outbreak. …
With the pandemic, businesses and consumers would gradually adopt real-time video communication to avoid face-to-face interactions, said Mr Weeradej, adding this will drive the development of video communication equipment, ranging from TVs, smart audio and video devices to laptops. …
This quarter, small businesses and IT retailers have been hard hit by the outbreak, resulting in lower demand and inventory, he said. …
https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/wires/it-spending-projected-to-shrink-in-2020-from-pandemic-bangkok-post-thailand/
Reptiles having their annual nap are the latest roadblock to Tesla’s progress in Berlin, but a local court said the carmaker can carry on. …
The sleeping snakes quickly posed a potential problem to CEO Elon Musk’s goal of opening the company’s first European factory by July of next year. …
A quick drive (literally) in Tesla’s Model 3 Performance … Ford’s new Super Duty trucks play as hard as they work.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/teslas-german-gigafactory-construction-rolls-on-despite-hibernating-snakes/ar-BB1bK13S
7 Nov 2011 … The impact of the October/November monsoon floods in Thailand on many high technology industries have been considerable. Perhaps none have been as hard hit as the HDD industry where major plants for Western Digital and Toshiba were flooded and many major HDD component suppliers were flooded as well. Even non-flooded production facilities such as those of Seagate and Hitachi GST have been slowed by parts shortages from flooded suppliers.[…]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2011/11/07/capital-equipment-costs-to-repair-flooded-hdd-factories-in-asia-will-be-considerable/
Mar 23, 2020 ─ JOC.com
The disruption to the production of hard disk drives (HDD), 40 percent … in Thailand, shows the scope of the disruption to Thai manufacturing.
Please note that no access to the article is granted without a subscription to the website. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo.
https://www.joc.com/international-logistics/planning-again-disruption_20200323.html
1 Oct 2012 … Back in June , I reported here about the shortage of hard drives and how they were starting to recover from floods in Thailand in October 2011.
Well I’m happy now to tell you that statistics are now indicating that the manufacturing process for hard disk drives has rebounded with factories now cranking out hard drives like never before. In fact, speculation is now that there will be more hard drives manufactured this year than ever before. …
https://blog.denticle.com/2012/10/thailand-flood-recovery-means-hard.html
Growth in HDD shipments is being driven by their use for second tier storage in enterprise and especially data center (cloud) applications, increasing requirements for heads and media for these HDDs. HDD use in data centers gives the industry a growth opportunity in 2020 to support remote work.
Note that changes in the reporting of the HDD manufacturers give much less detail on the shipment of various types of HDDs, so the breakout of HDD units is an estimate. …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2020/05/29/hdd-market-history-and-projections/
24 Oct 2011 … Several hundred factories have closed and approximately 350 people have died since flood waters began rising in the centre of the southeast Asian state earlier this month, with repercussions expected to be felt across the worldwide technology industry …
Computer makers around the world might have to pay up to 10% more for storage components after Thailand’s worst flooding in half a century washed out much of the country’s manufacturing capacity.
https://financialpost.com/technology/thai-floods-to-bring-hard-drive-drought
Jul 17, 2018 ─ TechRepublic
Following the 2011 flooding in Thailand which disrupted the HDD market, analysts expected more geographic diversity in the future, though the opposite is occurring. …
Western Digital is reportedly closing a disk drive factory in Malaysia “by the end of 2019” in favor of a solid-state drive facility elsewhere in the country, which is scheduled to start production “in the coming months,” according to a report from The Register. …
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-hdd-factory-closure-means-you-may-need-to-migrate-to-solid-state/
19 May 2012 … A blog about daily Philippine Tech News, Android Phones, Online Games, Tech Promos, Printers, ECE Review Guide and Filipino Inventions and Inventors.
Price of HDD Seagate 500Gb SATA in Pesos from 2010 – 2012 …
Decrease Supply – Hard disk drive and hard disk component factories in Thailand was hardly hit by series of flooding last 2011 due to heavy rain of monsoon seasons with Western Digital (WD) suffering the most. …
https://gb-sb.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-does-seagate-hdd-prices-increase-or.html
Britain’s economy, battered this year by coronavirus and now facing fresh fears of a no-deal Brexit, slowed sharply in October from the previous month, according to official data published Thursday. The ONS added on Thursday that GDP remains 7.9 percent below pre-pandemic levels in February — and noted that the rate of recovery has slowed each month since June.
“Public services output increased, while car manufacturing continued to recover and retail again grew strongly. …”
Video: Chart shows home price growth at record high, rising at fastest pace since early 2000s (CNBC) …
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-economic-growth-slows-sharply-to-0-4-in-october/ar-BB1bNVRS
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BANGKOK, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Thailand’s manufacturing production index (MPI) dropped a smaller-than-expected 9.34% in August from a year earlier, led by lower production of cars and hard disk drives amid the coronavirus outbreak, the industry ministry said on Wednesday. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/thailand-economy-output-idUSB7N2DZ013
10 Nov 2011 … With operations disrupted at more than a dozen hard disk drive (HDD) factories due to flooding in Thailand, PC manufacturers should prepare for significant supply shortages, market research firm IDC said Thursday.
Worldwide HDD shipments could suffer a 20% decline beginning in the middle of this month and extending well into the first quarter of 2012, according to a new IDC report. …
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2498721/pc-makers-should–brace–for-drive-shortages.html
May 19, 2020 ─ The New York Times
We’ve tested dozens of portable hard drives over the years to find the best drive for most people.
Every computer needs a backup hard drive, and if you use a laptop, a portable hard drive that’s easy to slip into a messenger bag is the most convenient option. …
Other 2 TB portable hard drives are significantly larger, performed slower in our tests, or have a failure rate that’s too high or are not reliable enough to recommend. …
Most of the world’s hard drive assembly plants are located in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, and China. …
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-portable-hard-drive/
16 Jan 2012 … Almost 30 years ago, Clara Peller screamed “Where’s the Beef?” to American and Canadian TV viewers. “Where’s the Beef?” was a popular slogan in the Eighties to lure hamburger eaters from the likes of McDonald’s and Burger King over to Wendy’s. …
Severe flooding in Thailand has affected shipments of MFP’s to the US. The flooding from October 23rd left many hard drive factories under water. …
https://mfpsolutions.blogspot.com/2012/01/selling-copiers-mfps-wheres-hard-drives.html
Nov 6, 2011 ─ New York Times
The flooding has revealed to the world the scale of Thailand’s industrialization and the extent to which two global industries, computers and cars, rely on components made here.
Three weeks after monsoon run-off swamped more than 1,000 factories across central Thailand, the brown, corrosive floodwaters have only slightly receded, leaving the world’s largest computer makers without a reliable forecast about when crucial parts will be available once again. …
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/business/global/07iht-floods07.html
25 Nov 2011 … Before you go shopping for a new computer this weekend consider this: Hard drive prices are going up. It’s the result of the floods in Thailand, which produces about 45 percent of the world’s hard drives. Many Thai factories have been crippled by the natural disaster. …
NPR’s Business News starts with rising computer prices. A component used to make computers has become more expensive. …
https://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142767696/thai-floods-disrupt-computer-hard-drive-supply
December 14, 2020 ─ We Are The Mighty
HISTORY’s “Roswell: The First Witness” takes an unconventional look at the iconic 1947 Roswell, New Mexico crash with new evidence.
I lobbied pretty hard to get involved with HISTORY and the Marcel family it worked out and we clicked. …
It kind of really drives home the rugged nature, the rugged experience of cowboy life. …
… his parents in Van Nuys and began working at the Radioplane Munitions Factory. … Chappy went to Thailand in 1966 to support combat missions in Vietnam.
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-movies/ben-smith-roswell-host/
18 Nov 2011 … Natural disasters are flood, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, etc and they lead to financial, environmental or human losses. Governments, International Relief Organizations and Businesses across the globe develop and implement Disaster Management and Response plans to minimize losses in terms of human, financial and environmental. … Businesses and Governments before setting up factories and plants take into account the natural disaster vulnerability of the areas. …
Seagate’s hard drive and component assembly factories in Thailand were not submerged, but manufacturing has been curtailed due to external component supply constraints. …
https://analysiscasestudy.blogspot.com/2011/11/natural-disasters-affect-on-business.html
BANGKOK, Oct. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The COVID-19 pandemic and the US-China trade friction have failed to slow Thailand‘s resilient electronics and electrical (E&E) industry which on the contrary many investors see as a haven, Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) data shows. …
Thailand‘s E&E sector has burgeoned into a global powerhouse and is the world’s second largest exporter of computer hard disc drives, air conditioners and washing machines, according to GSB Research, a unit of Thailand‘s largest state-owned bank. …
“In the past, companies would go to countries like Thailand just to reduce cost. …” …
https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/thailand-s-electronics-sector-still-a-magnet-for-investors-in-jan-sep-boi-data-shows-861798135.html
26 Oct 2020
BANGKOK, Oct. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The COVID-19 pandemic and the US-China trade friction have failed to slow Thailand‘s resilient electronics and electrical (E&E) industry which on the contrary many investors see as a haven, Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) data shows. …
Thailand’s E&E sector has burgeoned into a global powerhouse and is the world’s second largest exporter of computer hard disc drives, air conditioners and washing machines, according to GSB Research, a unit of Thailand’s largest state-owned bank. …
https://papernewsnetwork.com/thailands-electronics-sector-still-a-magnet-for-investors-in-jan-sep-boi-data-shows/
Updated: Dec 11, 2020 ─ Forbes
As the strangest year for travel in immediate memory, 2020 has required most avid jet-setters to quit collecting stamps and instead, keep ourselves domestic for a while. Even though the future of travel remains unclear, this has been an aptly-timed opportunity to safely explore a bit of our own backyard. But without immediate international travel plans, it’s hard to think about this year’s latest travel gadgets or must-needs for the next long-haul flight since, well, we’re not long-haul flying anywhere. …
For the one who has traded long-haul flights for long-haul drives this year, this makes an ideal stocking stuffer. …
The Cotopaxi Allpa del Dia 35L bag is designed not only to outfit you for a brief out-and-back, but the packs are made from repurposed fabrics and the creativity of the designers and makers at Cotopaxi’s factory in the Philippines. …
I’ve visited over 45 countries and lived in Thailand, China, and Ireland (where my son was born).
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/travel-rewards/2020-gift-ideas-for-travelers/
29 Oct 2011 … The massive flooding in Thailand is disrupting supplies of hard disk drives (HDDs) for the world’s personal computer makers, according to companies and market intelligence firms.
John Rydning, research vice president for hard disk drives at technology consultant IDC, estimated that factories in Thailand currently affected by flooding account for some 25 percent of worldwide HDD production. …
https://phys.org/news/2011-10-thai-disrupting-hard.html
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s manufacturing production index (MPI) contracted for a ninth straight month in January, down 4.59% from a year earlier, on lower production of cars, sugar and palm oil, the industry ministry said on Wednesday. …
But production of hard disk drives rose 13.5% last month year on year and air conditioners jumped nearly 22%. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-economy-output/thai-january-factory-output-falls-4-6-year-on-year-down-for-ninth-month-idUSKCN20K0EN
6 Nov 2011 … Last week, while I was in Canada to give a seminar on perishable supply chains in health care at McGill University, I picked up a copy of The Globe and Mail, which is the national Canadian newspaper. …
The computer industry is now bracing for a shortage of hard-disk drives after Thai factories were flooded.
Indeed, it is expected that the Thai floods may disrupt global electronic supply chains for several quarters. …
https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2011/11/vulnerability-and-complexity-of-our.html
Jul 19, 2018 ─ AnandTech
At present Western Digital has three factories that produce hard drives: the largest one is located in Bang Pa-In (Thailand), the second largest one is situated near Kuala Lumpur in Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), and the smallest one is sited in Prachinburi (Thailand). Meanwhile only the largest one is more or less vertically integrated and makes not only HDDs, but also many of their components (see the table below for details). …
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13097/western-digital-to-shut-down-hdd-manufacturing-facility-increase-production-of-ssds
6 Feb 2020 … Outbreak emerges as risk to Japanese manufacturing in Southeast Asia for first time
TOKYO — Japan’s Hoya, the world’s biggest maker of glass disks for hard-disk drives, is looking to downshift production in Vietnam and Thailand as the coronavirus outbreak in China hits customers there, Nikkei has learned.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Hoya-weighs-factory-slowdown-in-Vietnam-and-Thailand-on-virus-impact
Aug 22, 2017 ─ DriveMag Riders
First-ever visit by any journalist to Triumph’s three factories in Thailand southeast of Bangkok
Triumph Motorcycles sold 56,253 units in the year ending June 30, 2016 – the most recent period for which the Hinckley-based British manufacturer that’s still privately owned by the Bloor family has so far released figures. …
Reflecting this, Honda’s Thai factory making its CB300 singles and CB500 twins for global sale is literally ten minutes away from Triumph, although Ducati’s 22,000 sq² assembly plant opened in 2011 and building most of its models – including all Scramblers sold in North America and Australasia – is an hour further south, closer to Pattaya than the port of Bangkok. …
The fact that the union is focused on Triumph, and obviously we are too, helps drive a strong degree of collaboration. …
So it’s not a hard and fast arrangement – the smaller bikes here, the bigger bikes there.
https://riders.drivemag.com/features/triumph-motorcycles-thailand-factory-visit/
18 Nov 2011 … Thailand’s worst flood in 50 years has swamped more than two-thirds of the country, shutting down many factories, businesses have been impacted and hundreds of lives have been tragically lost. Thailand is the world’s second-largest producer of HDDs and accounts for 45 % of worldwide hard–drive production, after China and is a major supplier of hard drive parts too. The major hit has been to 2.5in drives produced in Thailand and typically targeted at the notebook, rather than the larger 3.5in drives more commonly produced in Malaysia or mainland China facilities. …
https://itbizcharts.blogspot.com/2011/11/impact-of-thai-flooding-on-hard-disk.html
Oct 8, 2020 ─ The Economist
The pandemic will not end globalisation, but it will reshape it …
The tsunami that hit Japan in 2011 cut Toyota’s production in America by nearly a third because of a shortage of parts, while flooding in Thailand inundated factories producing a quarter of the world’s hard drives.
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/10/08/changing-places
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December 11, 2020 ─ Eco-Business
The world is on the brink of an irreversible climate tipping-point, and young people understand this better than most. Today’s youth leaders are agitating for change across business and policy to bring about a brighter, safer and fairer future. …
Since then, EverComm has courted an impressive list of clients and partners, including General Electric, Thailand‘s PTT Group, and Singapore’s Energy Market Authority. …
“… Our drive is to expedite that progress, or at least to make sure it moves in the right direction,” he said. …
Recently, she launched sustainability art piece ‘Common Threads’ in Lisbon, Portugal featuring the stories of garment factory workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and created a large-scale installation in Singapore to build awareness of the impacts of fast fashion. …
“They’re making hard decisions,” she said.
https://www.eco-business.com/news/who-are-the-most-impactful-young-sustainability-leaders-in-asia-pacific-the-eco-business-youth-a-list-revealed/
21 Oct 2011 … SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A looming shortage of hard drives caused by floods in Thailand threatens to disrupt computer manufacturers as soon as December and hurt tech giants like Intel <INTC.O>, Apple <AAPL.O> and Dell <DELL.O>.
Thailand is the No. 2 maker of hard drives, used in laptops, servers and TV set-top boxes, and damage caused by flooding across the region could keep factories closed or hobbled for months, analysts and executives say. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-floods-tech-idUSTRE79K76Z20111021
Jul 15, 2020 ─ Vision Systems Design
The Visual Inspection Machine monitors a process that has little room for error.
Supported by Dynatech Instrument (Samsennok Huaykwang, Bangkok, Thailand: www.dynatech.co.th), a partner of Allied Vision (Stadtroda, Germany; www.alliedvision.com), Flexon Technology developed the Visual Inspection Machine (VMI) to detect errors in HDD production. …
https://www.vision-systems.com/cameras-accessories/article/14177786/hard-disc-drive-automated-inspection-machine-vision-system-in-thailand
13 Dec 2014 … To protect against reputational damage and the effects of climate change, do companies need to implement sustainable business practices throughout their supply chain? …
With two of the world’s largest hard–drive manufacturers being heavily reliant on Thai suppliers, costs skyrocketed for global companies such as Hitachi, Dell and HP. The disaster highlighted an increasingly common problem: for any company relying on a global supply chain, the risks facing suppliers on a local level can have a domino effect until damage is felt in boardrooms thousands of miles away. …
https://haccmarketing.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-sustainable-supply-chains-make.html
Jun 18, 2020 ─ PreventionWeb
Some assert that global value chains create economic vulnerabilities in times of a pandemic, but it is a mistake to equate self-sufficiency with robustness.
The Chao Phraya river floods in Thailand the same year were a second major natural disaster, with a deep economic impact on the hard disk drive (HDD) industry for which Thailand was concentrating 43% of the production. …
8 “Western Digital formats hard disk drive factory as demand spins down”, The Register, 17 July 2018. …
https://www.preventionweb.net/go/72361
Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon season in Thailand. The flooding began at the end of July triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten. …
Many of the factories that made hard disk drives were flooded, including Western Digital’s, leading some industry analysts to predict future worldwide shortages of hard disk drives. Western Digital was able to get one of their plants, flooded on 15 October 2011, restored and operating on 30 November 2011. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods
Nov 1, 2012 ─ IEEE Spectrum
Drive Dive: Thai Navy divers were called in to salvage disk drive manufacturing tools. Their efforts contributed to a quick recovery.
Losing so much of the hard drive supply chain meant the flooding had an international impact. …
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-lessons-of-thailands-flood
6 Aug 2020 … Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Plant
Clyde, Ohio
3:31 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Please. Thank you very much. It’s a great honor to be here.
He works with Jim and I so much and so hard: Bob Latta. …
Once more, your foreign competitors moved their factories to prevent a level playing field and to avoid liability, shifting production to Th-ailand and to Vietnam — Thailand and Vietnam, two places that I like their leaders very much. …
As a result, Whirlpool’s nine factories across the United States were soon thriving like never before, investing in new products, new infrastructure, and hundreds of new American jobs. …
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-whirlpool-corporation-manufacturing-plant/
Jul 20, 2020 ─ World Economic Forum
Trade tensions between the US and China and the COVID-19 pandemic, have highlighted that today’s global supply chain model is increasingly untenable.
To maintain productivity and profit margins, factories in China have to accelerate their adoption of digital transformation and automation, where production robots, 5G communication links for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, systems software with artificial intelligence, and digital capabilities will play a key role. …
For specialized electronic components such as hard disk drives (HDD), Thailand is already home to more than 70% of all production worldwide. …
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/evolution-supply-chains-picking-up-speed-asia-pacific/
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20 Jul 2020 ─ Micromech Limited’s space
We are excited to announce the addition of Akribis products to our range. Akribis are world leaders in cutting edge Direct Drive Technology and manufacture a comprehensive range of high precision direct drive motors, stages and systems.
Akribis Systems Pte Ltd was founded in Singapore in 2004.
Today, there are production factories in Singapore and Shanghai & Nantong, China, with worldwide sales and support offices in USA, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany and Israel, and distribution channels in Asia, Europe and North America.
Akribis design and manufacture direct drive motors, stages and precision systems for manufacturing, inspection and testing, and support a wide range of industries including semiconductor, solar, flat panel, hard disk, LED, printed circuit board, printing, photonics, and biomedical manufacturing, etc. …
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https://micromech.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/micromech-adds-akribis-direct-drive-motors-stages-and-precision-systems-to-our-range-of-products/
Feb 17, 2020 ─ CBC.ca
General Motors has decided to pull out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as part of a strategy to exit markets that don’t produce adequate returns on investments, raising dismay Monday from officials concerned over job losses.
Dave Smith of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union also expressed chagrin.
Cars drive past a car dealership of Holden, General Motors Co.’s Australian subsidiary, in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 11, 2013. …
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gm-australia-thailand-new-zealand-1.5466240
9 Oct 2012 … The rain started in August and by mid-October 2011, violent floods in Thailand had crippled the factories that helped produce nearly half of the world’s hard drives. As an online backup company, Backblaze fills more than 50TB of new drives every day. To survive this crisis without raising prices or compromising service, Backblaze deployed every last employee, as well as friends and family, to acquire drives in what became known internally as “drive farming.” What follows is how we did it. …
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
Opinion · Feb 17, 2020 ─ CNBC
General Motors is continuing a years-long global restructuring to concentrate on high-profit markets such as North America and China.
The automaker also announced plans to exit Thailand, including withdrawing Chevrolet by the end of this year and selling a plant to Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors. …
“I’ve often said that we will do the right thing, even when it’s hard, and this is one of those times,” Barra said in a release. …
The announcement comes more than two years after GM ended vehicle manufacturing in Australia, a place the automaker used as a proving ground for up-and-coming executives, including GM President Mark Reuss. …
Reuss, in the release, said the company explored a range of options to continue Holden operations, but "none could overcome the challenges of the investments needed for the highly fragmented right-hand-drive market, the economics to support growing the brand, and delivering an appropriate return on investment.” …
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/17/general-motors-gm-retreats-from-australia-new-zealand-and-thailand.html
9 Nov 2011 … Wondering why the Hard disk prices have gone up 2 folds? Here is the reason and see what Seagate & WD are up to. …
“Currently, all Seagate factories in Thailand are operational and there are no logistical issues with employees reaching its factories. However, the hard disk drive component supply chain is being disrupted and it is expected that certain components in the supply chain will be constrained.”…
https://forumofthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/11/thailand-floods-make-hard-disk-dry.html
Feb 16, 2020 ─ Fortune
GM is shrinking as it gets almost all of its profits from the Americas and China.
General Motors Co. will leave Australia, New Zealand and Thailand by year-end as it exits poor-performing markets and focuses on new technologies such as self-driving cars and electric vehicles. …
“I’ve often said that we will do the right thing, even when it’s hard, and this is one of those times,” CEO Mary Barra said. …
“We have the right strategies to drive robust returns, and prioritizing global investments that will drive growth in the future of mobility.” …
But the brand’s future in Australia has been in doubt since GM closed its Holden factory in the South Australian suburb of Elizabeth in 2017.
https://fortune.com/2020/02/17/gm-australia-new-zealand-thailand/
25 Oct 2011 … A heavier-than-normal rainy season in Thailand may result in some instability in the platter-based hard drive market. Western Digital, one of the biggest names in hard drives, has two hard drive factories in Thailand, at least one of which is now underwater.
While that one manufacturer is certainly affected, what you may not know is that a Thai company by the name of Nidec happens to provide the motors for between 70-80% of all hard drive manufacturers. Unfortunately, Nidec is also currently submerged.
https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/12331-flooding-in-thailand-may-affect-hard-drive-prices/
December 10, 2020 ─ AutoIndustriya.com
Sometimes a good vehicle just doesn’t connect with Filipino customers
There were, however, some matters that were hard to overlook with the Zinger -err- Fusion. …
Normally, when we fly to Suvarnabhumi, it’s to drive a vehicle made in Thailand, but the Spin was made in Indonesia. …
Not only were sales in the Philippines not as high as expected, but sales in the region were so low that General Motors eventually shut down the factory in Indonesia that produced the vehicle in 2015.
https://www.autoindustriya.com/features/dud-list-10-models-we-thought-were-good-but-didn-t-succeed-in-ph.html
2 Jun 2018 … My Car is Made Where: Here’s 20 cars manufactured in places you might least expect, further evidence that it has become an even smaller world after all.
It begins life “Built like no other SUV“ at a factory in Graz, Austria. …
The full-size, rear-drive Chevy SS sedan is largely based on the Holden Commodore, an Australian-market GM vehicle; Chevy and Holden models were both built in Australia and 2017 was the last year of production for this high-powered sedan. …
The small five-door hatchback and its recently arrived sibling, the Mirage G4, are the first U.S. automotive imports built at Mitsubishi’s Laem Chabang plant in Thailand, Southeast Asia.
https://www.wheels.ca/top-ten/my-car-is-made-where/
Mar 21, 2020 ─ CTV News
OTTAWA — A Canadian who was detained in Thailand for five days amid the COVID-19 outbreak is finally coming home. …
A single factory is now working 24/7 to keep Kraft Dinner on grocery shelves…
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-traveller-detained-in-thailand-amid-covid-19-confusion-coming-home-1.4863095
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April 30th, 2012 ─ Sherby
The hard drive on my 3 month old laptop decided to die a few days ago. I am so freaking upset. Of course I had nothing backed up, so everything that was on there is now completely gone. At this point Im just glad a have a warranty on the damn thing so I dont have to pay for the repair. I swear, I have the worst damn luck with laptops. …
It’s days like this that I long to just sit down with a cigarette and a bottle glass of wine and just forget about everything else. I won’t though. I fought too hard for my sobriety to fuck it all up now. Still, it’s tempting.
https://sherbysherby.livejournal.com/3602.html
Mar 23, 2020 ─ Tom’s Hardware
The Coronavirus is spreading throughout south east Asia, leading storage device manufacturers to halt operations. … Small disruptions, big consequences
As reported by Storage Newsletter, HDD manufacturing in the Philippines has halted for a minimum of three days, and other storage(-related) manufacturing has also come to a crawl or stopped entirely. …
The situation reminds us much of the Thailand floods in 2011, from which the markets took years to recover, with some arguing that prices technically still haven’t recovered fully. …
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/storage-shortage-coronavirus-device-makers-asia-HDD-SSD
19 Jul 2018 … At present Western Digital has three factories that produce hard drives: the largest one is located in Bang Pa-In (Thailand), the second largest one is situated near Kuala Lumpur in Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), and the smallest one is sited in Prachinburi (Thailand). Meanwhile only the largest one is more or less vertically integrated and makes not only HDDs, but also many of their components (see the table below for details).
The total available market of hard drives dropped to around 400 million units in 2017, down from around 550 million units in 2014. …
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13097/western-digital-to-shut-down-hdd-manufacturing-facility-increase-production-of-ssds
Sep 29, 2020 ─ Bangkok Post
As digital technology becomes firmly entrenched in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, it is not only in healthcare where it takes a prominent role but also increasingly in business operations and even people’s daily lives. In this changing environment, Thailand has shown itself to be one of the world’s most resilient and thriving smart electronics manufacturing hubs.
Spearheaded by multinational companies, Thailand‘s E&E industry supply chain is currently comprised of more than 2,500 enterprises, employing around 753,000 workers. …
Thailand’s prominence in the global supply chain of the E&E industry is proven by the fact that the country’s exports of important components such as Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and Integrated Circuits (ICs) account for one-third of the global demand each year. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1993571/booming-digital-industry-boosts-thailands-smart-electronics
18 Sep 2015 … The United States announced new rules on Friday to further ease trade, travel and investment restrictions with Cuba, but Cuban President Raul Castro told President Barack Obama that Washington should go even further and lift its economic embargo on the Communist-ruled island.
The rare phone call between the two leaders followed the unveiling of changes that will allow certain U.S. companies to establish offices in Cuba, expand banking and Internet activities and eliminate limits on the amount of money that can be taken there, U.S. officials said. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-usa-trade-idUSKCN0RI1EF20150918
More than 100,000 people are scheduled to attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. The coronavirus has companies re-thinking their plans. …
At the time of the Thai floods, the country produced 40% of the world’s hard disk drives. The deluge left many factories underwater and triggered a parts shortage that reduced PC production for months, in turn cutting demand for memory chips and other parts. …
https://www.barrons.com/articles/coronavirus-could-bring-tech-supply-chains-to-a-halt-51581125237
27 Oct 2011 … BANGKOK/TOKYO (Reuters) – Manufacturers of car parts to computer hard drives are worst hit in Thailand and face a bleak key holiday selling season due to massive floods, which have shut down production.
Japanese car makers that had just started to recover from the March earthquake and tsunami that disrupted their supply chains are now facing shortages of key parts made in Thailand, a key manufacturing base in Southeast Asia. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thai-floods-idUSTRE79R0QR20111028
Mar 13, 2020 ─ The Verge
Ford, GM, and Fiat Chrysler have all told non-factory employees to work remotely as the coronavirus continues to spread in the US and around the globe. But factory workers are supposed to remain in place for now, unless they start showing symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. … None are suspending US production operations yet, though
Factory workers at plants in the US, however, are being told to remain in place — despite the United Auto Workers union announcing Thursday that a Fiat Chrysler employee at the company’s Kokomo Transmission Plant in Indiana tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. …
At company offices in hard-hit areas like China, Korea, Japan, and Italy, he wrote “this practice has become the ‘new normal.’” …
But the company told its employees to self-quarantine if they’ve recently traveled to Italy, China, South Korea, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, according to a leaked memo obtained by Business Insider. …
“The health department and Center for Disease Control will drive next steps.”.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21178309/automakers-ford-gm-fca-coronavirus-covid-19-remote-work-factory
28 Dec 2011 … ICY DOCK is a leading manufacturer of removable hard drive enclosures. Since our company has always been about the customers, we wanted to create an informal avenue for us to communicate with you! Hopefully, these blogs will provide you with insights and opinions about ICY DOCK products.
We are still seeing the affects of the flood in Thailand in the HDD market. …
It seems that the marriage between Samsung and Seagate is official now. This may be good for Seagate, as they are affected by the Thailand flood, among other hard drive manufacturers.
https://icydock.blogspot.com/2011/
Jul 30, 2020 ─ BNN
(Bloomberg) — Energy Absolute Pcl took a detour from developing solar and wind farms to lead Thailand’s biggest electric-vehicle venture. While it’s still betting that EVs have the biggest growth potential, the company is also returning to its roots in renewables.
The Thai utility is assessing the viability of developing two dam-based hydropower projects in Laos, according to Deputy Chief Executive Officer Amorn Sapthaweekul.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tesla-of-thailand-mulls-hydropower-plants-to-balance-ev-risks-1.1473405
Image from Thai hard disk drive makers brace for demand slump: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg
17 Feb 2020 ─ Fortune
GM is shrinking as it gets almost all of its profits from the Americas and China.
General Motors Co. will leave Australia, New Zealand and Thailand by year-end as it exits poor-performing markets and focuses on new technologies such as self-driving cars and electric vehicles. …
“I’ve often said that we will do the right thing, even when it’s hard, and this is one of those times,” Barra said in the statement. “We have the right strategies to drive robust returns, and prioritizing global investments that will drive growth in the future of mobility.” …
https://fortune.com/2020/02/17/gm-australia-new-zealand-thailand/
Mar 24, 2020 ─ Automotive News
Mazda has become the latest Japanese automaker to halt operations at home and overseas as it reacts to falling demand and supply issues triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mazda also said it would shut down its Mexico assembly plant for 10 days from March 25 and suspend work at its Thailand factory for about 10 days starting March 30. …
https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/mazda-suspends-operations-japan-mexico-thailand
23 Oct 2011 … A flooding disaster in Thailand has hampered the hard drive supply chain and shortages may plague PC, server and storage vendors in the months to come.
Thailand‘s disaster has shut down 14,000 factories, flooded hundreds of thousands of homes and put more than 660,000 out of work.
Last week, the impact of the flooding in Thailand played out very differently for hard drive giants Western Digital and Seagate, but shortages will loom into 2012, say executives. …
https://www.zdnet.com/article/thailand-floods-to-lead-to-hard-drive-shortages-for-months/
November 2, 2020 ─ Nikkei Asian Review
KYOTO — Japan’s Nidec will spend about 200 billion yen ($1.9 billion) to build an electric vehicle motor factory in Serbia, Nikkei has learned,
Nidec had concentrated resources on expanding its EV drive motor … rose to prominence as a maker of precision motors for hard-disk drives.
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https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Nidec-plans-2bn-EV-motor-factory-in-Europe-for-bet-beyond-China
1 Nov 2011 … Recent flooding in Thailand has interrupted the supply of a large number, and wide variety, of that nation’s exports. Early predictions are that these floods will disrupt hundreds of supply chains in industries all over the world, from the United States, to Japan, Taiwan and beyond. …
And by some estimates, the United States gets around 1/3 of its imported hard drives from Thailand. …
While some armchair supply chain analysts may wonder why some companies might decide to build factories on a known flood-plain, Sternberg makes the point that Thailand actually offers many advantages that make it an attractive location to source elements of a supply chain, and that these advantages outweigh the relatively rare instances of natural disasters in the area. …
https://cmuscm.blogspot.com/2011/11/flooding-in-thailand-disrupts-global.html
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed severe gaps in manufacturing. U.S. firms must reconsider their reliance on globalized supply chains.
After the 2011 monsoon flooding in Thailand, which inundated several of the country’s manufacturing regions, the hard–drive maker Western Digital quickly restored operations thanks to contingency planning. …
https://www.barrons.com/articles/domestic-manufacturing-coronavirus-supply-chain-emergency-supplies-masks-51586549335
9 Nov 2011 … Excessive flooding in Thailand has not only made life a challenge for locals, but global businesses are experiencing hardships due to the harsh monsoon season as well. Many technology suppliers are located in Thailand and have suffered because of the massive flooding and have caused a significant supply chain back up. Several have lost large amounts of inventory and suffered excessive property damage. …
Many of the largest hard–drive manufacturers in the world are located in Thailand. With massive amounts of water filling these facilities, hard–drive producers around the world are experiencing missed deadlines and an increase in costs. …
https://globaledge.msu.edu/blog/post/1150/flooding-in-thailand-affects-global-supp
Oct 17, 2011 ─ Bangkok Post
After floods inundate hard-disk drive factories, producers may move to other countries to avoid a global supply shortage. …
With the world’s top four HDD manufacturers operating in Thailand, the country handles 60% of the global production. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-news/261779/hard-disk-drive-industry-hit
2 Nov 2011 … By JAMES HOOKWAY
Asia Today: The flood crisis in Thailand is hitting some the world’s biggest manufacturers and disrupting the supply of tech components. …
Taiwanese personal-computer maker Acer Inc. on Friday said it is increasing PC and notebook prices as hard-disk costs rise because of supply uncertainties in Thailand.
https://strategyclass.blogspot.com/2011/11/october-27-2011-thai-flooding-hits-big.html
Jun 29, 2020 ─ Bloomberg
Thailand is looking past the pandemic and pushing ahead with a 290 billion baht ($9.4 billion) “airport city” aimed at creating a destination for travel and manufacturing, according to the head of the project. …
“The building of infrastructure is easy, but the hard part will be bringing companies and investment to the area,” said Manoj Lohatepanont, director of Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute in Bangkok. …
A high-speed train system is being built to connect the airport with Pattaya and Bangkok, about three hours drive away.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-29/thailand-looks-past-pandemic-to-build-9-billion-airport-city
Amazon U.S. (paperback)• Hydrometeorological Hazards: Interfacing Science and Policy (Hydrometeorological Extreme Events)
Recent hydrometeorological extreme events have highlighted the increased exposure and vulnerability of societies and the need to strengthen the knowledge-base of related policies. Current research is focused on improving forecasting, prediction and early warning capabilities in order to improve the assessment of vulnerability and risks linked to extreme climatic events.
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Born from the depths of monkey-driven factories where “nice & hawt” Asian boys tap dance in bright pink tuxedos.
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Oct 3, 2020 ─ Nikkei Asian Review
Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.Follow the latest updates. Global … Advance voting begins in NZ election; Thai ex-PM Thaksin was infected but recovered
9:37 p.m. Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was diagnosed with COVID-19 in late August, his aide in Thailand reveals to Nikkei Asia. …
8:52 a.m. Business sentiment among Japan’s large manufacturers has recorded the first improvement since 2017, the Bank of Japan’s latest Tankan quarterly survey shows, helped by government and central bank efforts to resuscitate the nation’s pandemic-hit economy. …
11:58 p.m. Thailand‘s manufacturing production index dropped a smaller-than-expected 9.34% in August from a year earlier, led by lower production of cars and hard disk drives amid the outbreak.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Coronavirus-Free-to-read/Coronavirus-Week-of-Sept.-27-to-Oct.-3-Trump-treated-with-antibody-cocktail
18 Oct 2011 … Western Digital said flooding in Thailand is having a \
Western Digital, the world’s largest provider of hard-disk drives, said … due to the flooding, though it said its Thailand factories are operational.
The Wall Street Journal does not allow the general public access to its articles ─ by subscription only. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203658804576636951367373290
Jul 17, 2018 ─ Tom’s Hardware
Western Digital will close down its Petaling Jaya factory in Malaysia by the end of 2019.
Luckily, the major hard drive manufacturer still owns a 1.7 million square-foot facility in Bang Pa-In, Thailand and a 730,000 square-foot production facility in Prachinburi, Thailand. …
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/western-digital-hdd-malaysia,37473.html
13 Feb 2020 … The coronavirus has taken a devastating toll on its victims in China and elsewhere. But the epidemic has also exposed the downsides of leaning too heavily on China to power neighboring economies.
Tourism-related industries such as transportation and hospitality have been hit particularly hard. The impact will be felt most acutely by Thailand, which has already been contending with a sluggish economy due to an aging population and weak domestic investment. …
If factories were to fully reopen in one month, the impact would be much less. …
Many of China’s neighbors have leaned too heavily on external demand and China-centric supply chains to drive their own domestic economic growth. …
https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/02/13/economic-fallout-of-coronavirus-in-southeast-asia-pub-81070
Aug 9, 2019 ─ Forbes
If you are a mobile warrior, you need an external hard drive to match your work or personal style.
It is backed by one of the most established manufacturers and comes with a healthy two-year manufacturer’s limited warranty. This WD external hard drive works with both Mac and PC. …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2019/08/09/the-best-portable-external-hard-drives-of-2019/
23 Nov 2011 … Although Seagate’s factories weren’t directly impacted by the huge flooding in Thailand, the company has been affected by the inventory shortages of components crucial to its supply chain. All Things D recently interviewed Seagate CEO Steve Luczo, who assessed the road that lies ahead for the industry: supply shortages will continue until at least late 2012, and the industry may not return to normal until the end of 2013. And while manufacturers are adapting to the shortage by including fewer parts in their drives by using a single higher-density disk with two heads instead of two disks with four heads, Luczo says price increases are inevitable. …
https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/23/2582677/thailand-flood-seagate-hard-drive-shortage
May 7, 2020 ─ Bangkok Post
SMART INDUSTRIES …
Thailand’s E&E industry is already the world’s second largest air conditioner exporter, as well as a major producer of refrigerators, cellphones, electronic integrated circuits (IC) and microassemblies, and hard disk drives. …
Thai manufacturers, as well as MNC’s such as Bosch, Siemens, Daikin, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital that have manufacturing operations in Thailand, are trusted by global partners because of their skill in precision manufacturing, as well as electronic manufacturing services such as IC design. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1914104/smart-electronics
11 Feb 2014 … Logistics and transport can be classified as the arms and legs of any supply chain; playing a crucial role in timely conversion of inputs into outputs, ensuring coordination throughout the whole process. …
Most recent examples include; eruption of Grimsvotn volcano cutting off air travel to Europe, roughly cancelling 600 flights a day from North America to Europe, Monsoon flooding of factories in Thailand causing a global shortage of hard drives; Earthquake in Japan affecting global supply chain for memory chips and lastly how Dell had to resort to acquiring supply using rented aircraft to meet demand when the eight day port strike occurred …
https://cmuscm.blogspot.com/2014/02/logistics-on-steroids.html
Oct 23, 2011 ─ ZDNet
A flooding disaster in Thailand has hampered the hard drive supply chain and shortages may plague PC, server and storage vendors in the months to come.
Thailand‘s disaster has shut down 14,000 factories, flooded hundreds of thousands of homes and put more than 660,000 out of work.
Last week, the impact of the flooding in Thailand played out very differently for hard drive giants Western Digital and Seagate, but shortages will loom into 2012, say executives. …
https://www.zdnet.com/article/thailand-floods-to-lead-to-hard-drive-shortages-for-months/
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7 Nov 2020 ─ Daily Republic
Nov. 7—Stargazing at night may be relaxing for many people, but mu Space and Advanced Technology, a Thailand-based satellite and space tech firm, is hard at work, conceiving of business opportunities in space that could emerge in the years to come.
mu Space, established in 2017 with registered capital of 105 million baht, is regarded as the first space-tech mover in Asean. …
https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/wires/reach-for-the-stars-bangkok-post-thailand/
Oct 7, 2020 ─ RECYCLING magazine
Following repeated revelations of the dumping of electronic wastes, from countries such as the US, Japan, and Australia, the Thai government has finally passed a full prohibition on the import of such hazardous wastes into Thailand.
“We are very happy to see this law finally in force in Thailand but we remind the world that Thailand is still seen as the dumping ground for plastic and other wastes by brokers in Hong Kong and the US,” said Mr. Akarapon Teebthaisong of Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand (EARTH). …
In May of 2018, the Thai government conducted the first of several high-profile raids on these companies but it was not until last month that the prohibition announced at that time became official with 428 different types of electronic scrap listed as forbidden to import into the country, in a Notification of Ministry of Commerce of the new law effective 15 September 2020. …
[…] it for reusing.Electronic recycling: A number of firms also give digital recycling services. desktop complters recycling take advantage of recycling of digital parts such as hard disk drives, drooping diskettes, CDs, […].
https://www.recycling-magazine.com/2020/10/07/thailand-passes-strict-ban-on-the-importation-of-electronic-waste/
1 Dec 2011 … * Sees Oct-Dec revenue of at least $1.8 bln vs $1.2 bln consensus
Thailand produces around half of global hard drives by housing top-ranked Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba Corp and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. …
Seagate’s Thai plants are largely unaffected by the floods, but production has been curtailed due to tighter component supplies as some of key suppliers’ factories were also submerged. …
https://ca.reuters.com/article/idUSN1E7B01VP20111202
Oct 18, 2011 ─ InfoWorld
Flooding near Bangkok has taken about 25 percent of the world’s hard disk manufacturing capacity offline
Disk manufacturing sites in Thailand — notably including the largest Western Digital plant — were shut down due to floods around Bangkok last week and are expected to remain shut for at least several more days. …
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2621076/the-impending-hard-drive-shortage—-and-possible-price-hikes.html
30 Oct 2011 … Singapore manufacturers in flood-hit Thailand halt production, count costs
Chow Kok Hwee, CEO of Chosen Holdings, has faced more than his fair share of negative surprises in2011. …
Some of them also manufacture components for global hard disk drive (HDD)producers Seagate and Western Digital.
https://kfc1973-stock.blogspot.com/2011/10/singapore-manufacturers-in-flood-hit.html
Mar 6, 2020 ─ The New York Times
The virtual shutdown of one of the world’s biggest economies is hurting business around the globe, from multinational firms to truck drivers and tour guides.
China matters to Mr. Smerling, Chilean farmers, Thai tour guides, … Mr. Battogtokh drives 70-ton truckloads of coal from a huge mine in the … “It’s hard enough with the coronavirus outbreak and now some are facing this,” Mr. Saichon said. … Some workers have returned to their factories as the Chinese …
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/business/economy/china-coronavirus-economy.html
20 Oct 2011 … In the UK, Pace blamed the closure of Western Digital’s Thai facilities, which supply hard disk drives to its set-top box factories, for its third profit …
Financial Times is one of those websites that offers nothing for free ─ not even articles as dated as this one. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.ft.com/content/f0f9a234-fb33-11e0-8756-00144feab49a
Jul 13, 2020 ─ Wall Street Journal
Business leaders want to get the global economy back on track, but rising coronavirus levels in places such as the U.S. have governments tapping the brakes.
Consider Thailand, an export-manufacturing hub and major tourist destination. … the U.S. has a wider array of businesses to drive its recovery. … Airbus SE, for instance, is having a hard time taking sales of planes over the …
Here we go again ─ another website with a paywall. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jumbled-covid-border-rules-baffle-companies-stymie-tourism-11594651375
28 Oct 2011 … I recently bought myself a nice and shiny Western Digital WD external hard drive – The WD 1 TB 3.0. That’s a massive 1000GB so plenty of expansion space in there for videos and images. …
My shiny red Western Digital WD 1 TB Passport hard disk …
Just days after I bought my WD product questions were asked about the production in Thailand and Malaysia of WD disk drives. …
In “Tracking factory slaves across Asia” CNN reports:.
http://wineforspicewarrenedwardes.blogspot.com/2011/10/wd-hard-drives-are-nice-but-are-they.html
Sep 12, 2020 ─ South China Morning Post
Chinese steel exports have been hit by 15 anti-dumping investigations in the first nine months of this year amid what experts say is growing pandemic-driven protectionism.
China steel exports hit by surge of anti-dumping probes as coronavirus drives protectionism · Thailand‘s industrial sector has been hard hit by the …
Good luck ─ I was barred by yet another paywall from access to the article. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3101182/china-steel-exports-hit-surge-anti-dumping-probes-coronavirus-drives
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May. 27th, 2011 ─ brimaresh
My laptop went down, and I thought, oh, well, at least it’s just the screen that’s broken.
Only to find that it was the hard drive.
My external hard drive was wiped due to an issue with people backing their PS3s up on it and a known issue with partitioning the way they did that I didn’t know about (because I am a nice sister, but not that nice — had I realized… but no, I didn’t, and I don’t need to dwell). …
My hard drive lives.
Now, to overcome this irrational fear that everything is going to disappear again.
PS Yes, I now have an incorporeal backup (two, for most of my writing), as well as having the external hard drive, the hard drive from the laptop, and as soon as I am able, another flash drive.
https://brimaresh.livejournal.com/55681.html
Jan 13, 2017 ─ AnandTech
The factory in Suzhou, China, assemblies hard drives and performs their final testing before shipping. …
After Seagate shuts down its plant in Suzhou, China, it will have two vertically integrated HDD production facilities in Wuxi, China, and Korat, Thailand.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11037/seagate-to-shut-down-one-of-its-largest-hdd-assembly-plants
8 Oct 2015 … A hard disk drive shortage following flooding in Thailand in 2011 prompted Amazon Web Services to rethink its supply chain. We recap the discussion from re:Invent, including the launch of Snowball, a 50 TV storage appliance to speed data transfer to the AWS cloud.
Flooding at a hard disk drive factory in Thailand in 2011. (Image: Amazon Web Services) …
If it rains enough in Thailand, cloud storage could run dry. That’s why Amazon Web Services now looks differently at the supply chain for its massive data center operation, according to VP of Infrastructure Jerry Hunter. …
https://datacenterfrontier.com/floods-thailand-aws-supply-chain/
Jul 17, 2020 ─ The New York Times
Can the country’s low rate of coronavirus infections be attributed to culture? Genetics? Face masks? Or a combination of all three?
Workers making cloth face masks at a factory owned by Wacoal, an underwear manufacturer, in Bangkok, in April. It didn’t always look so upbeat.
I seem to have exceeded my free monthly allowance of The New York Times articles. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/asia/coronavirus-thailand-photos.html
9 Feb 2012 … February 9, 2012 8:09:52 PM
HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods – TechSpot
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The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world’s hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world’s fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. …
https://recycled-newz.blogspot.com/2012/02/look-back-at-how-thai-floods-affected.html
Feb 17, 2020 ─ Automotive News
Great Wall, one of China’s biggest SUV makers, will sell vehicles from the GM plant in Thailand, a major light-truck market, as well as other ASEAN countries and Australia. The Baoding-based automaker is seeking to expand globally amid a slowing domestic market.
Virtual events face hard reality … With the proposed sale of the Thailand plant to Great Wall, GM is giving up an opening to expand operations in Southeast Asia.
GM is “focusing on markets where we have the right strategies to drive robust returns, and prioritizing global investments that will drive growth in the future of mobility,” especially in electric and autonomous vehicles, GM chairman and CEO Mary Barra said in a statement.
Great Wall, one of China’s biggest SUV makers, said it will sell vehicles from the Thai manufacturing plant in Thailand, other ASEAN countries and Australia as the Baoding-based automaker seeks to expand globally amid a slowing domestic market. …
https://www.autonews.com/china/great-wall-acquire-thailand-assembly-plant-gm
2 Dec 2011 … Drive shortages caused by massive flooding in Thailand have left Apple without …
Over half of the hard drives made in the world are manufactured in Thailand, and the flooding there has knocked many HDD factories offline for several weeks now. Western Digital announced on Friday that production had finally resumed at one of its factories, but warned that it own production output will be short for the next quarter or so. …
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/12/thai-flooding-finally-hits-apple-with-2tb-drive-shortage/
Jul 30, 2020 ─ Pattaya Mail
Thai industries have bottomed out on the condition that there will be no second wave of Covid-19 and the Thai economy will continuously recover in the second half of this year, said Industry Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit.
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The Office of Industrial Economics (OIE) reported the manufacturing production index (MPI) in June increased for the second consecutive month, which is a good sign for the recovery of the manufacturing sector, said the minister. […]
Sales channels both in domestic and international markets reopened for some main industries such as auto and automotive engine hard disk drive, air conditioning and equipment, electronic components and circuits. …
https://www.pattayamail.com/coronavirus/thai-industry-sector-projected-to-bottom-out-309399
17 Jan 2013 … SEATTLE/TAKAMATSU, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. and Japanese aviation safety officials finished an initial investigation of a badly damaged battery from a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet on Friday as Boeing said it was halting deliveries until the battery concerns were resolved.
A 787 Dreamliner jet painted in All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan livery, sits idle on the tarmac parking at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, January 17, 2013. …
https://cn.reuters.com/article/instant-article/idUSBRE90F1N820130118
Feb 12, 2019 ─ Xinhua
The purpose of the new factory is to support the future growth of memory disk. Production at the new plant will start at the beginning of 2020 and is in addition to the existing memory disk for hard disk drive factories in Thailand and Vietnam. When the factory is complete it will feature state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities and technologies, said a news release from Hoya released on Monday. …
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/12/c_137815390.htm
7 Feb 2020 ─ IMURNEWS.COM
Feb 7 (Reuters) – The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Times – Three Thai billionaires are competing for Tesco’s Thailand and Malaysia operations in the second round of an auction that could value the division at as much as $7 billion. bit.ly/31vUbQp … Jaguar Land Rover said lines at its Solihull and Castle Bromwich factories will halt for half and full-day stoppages on selected days over the next few months. bit.ly/2UyQZ4S Sky News – The UK will “drive a hard bargain” as it seeks trade deals with the U.S. and other countries that benefit consumers and businesses while maintaining standards, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has said. bit.ly/2Uwq6hT …
https://theoriginalalexa.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/press-digest-british-business-feb-7/
Jan 24, 2012 ─ The Verge
The floods in Thailand certainly had an effect on hard drive supplies and prices, and now Western Digital’s earnings report for Q1 2012 attaches some hard numbers to the impact. Although prices rose 47 percent to $69 per unit over last year, WD sold 23.7 million fewer hard drives, a 45 percent drop. … The company says its factories in Thailand should be back to pre-flood capacities by September 2012, with inventory pipelines replenished in the first half of 2013. …
https://www.theverge.com/2012/1/24/2729692/western-digital-prices-thailand-floods
24 Nov 2011 … It has been six weeks since Thailand‘s worst flooding in decades swamped the nation’s industrial heartland, which produced around half of global hard drives …
The disruption caused by Thailand‘s floods has shone a light on the importance of its industrial sector in the global supply chain and how reliant the world’s leading companies from hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers and auto firms have become on its factories. …
Floods will shrink global HDD supply by 30 per cent in the current quarter, and hit sales of PCs and semiconductors, affecting core businesses of the likes of Samsung, Lenovo Group Ltd. and Hewlett-Packard Co. , according to research firm IHS iSuppli. …
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/key-tech-supplies-stretched-by-slow-thai-flood-recovery/article555133/
2 Nov 2020 ─ Bangkok Post
As the Group CEO of Indorama Ventures Plc (IVL), the Bangkok-based chemical company whose business spans 33 countries around the globe, Aloke Lohia travels frequently every year to visit 120 operating sites, with pleasure trips tacked on when he has time. While the protracted Covid-19 pandemic has brought that routine to a complete stop, the Indian-born business veteran says it doesn’t bother him.
“… I’m quite happy to sit, enjoy Thailand, enjoy working and the family.” …
In early February, SET-listed IVL announced a major transformation drive for 2020-23, comprising five strategic pillars. …
“… The factory is still there in Saraburi and I go once a year at least.” …
“There are so many people who do hard work and they do fantastic work, but if they don’t have the opportunity, they don’t have the ecosystem, they can only go so far. …”
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2012391/formula-for-success
6 Oct 2020 … Through interviews with manufacturers, MIC found that China’s share of … manufacturer, is expected to produce notebook PCs in Thailand.
As seen earlier, Financial Times does not grant access to its articles without proof of a paid subscription. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.ft.com/content/e27a7ffe-8af3-4ab1-8917-faeae055d0b8
Mar 16, 2020 ─ MIT Sloan
The kinds of challenges we face with the coronavirus point to permanent changes we must make.
The scale of what’s happening is hard to grasp, and it’s logical to wonder whether COVID-19 is the so-called black swan that society and business have feared. …
Massive floods in Thailand in 2011 shut down factories that made critical parts for the computer hard drive industry and components for major automakers.
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/is-the-covid-19-outbreak-a-black-swan-or-the-new-normal/
11 Nov 2011 … The widespread flooding in Thailand that disrupted operations at hard disk …
The widespread flooding in Thailand that disrupted operations at hard disk drive factories will lead to significantly declining PC shipments, say market analysts. Thailand accounted for 40 to 45 percent of worldwide HDD production in the first half of 2011, but flooding has impacted more than a dozen factories, according to IDC. …
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/11/pc-shipments-could-drop-more-than-10-over-hard-drive-shortages/
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Nov 23, 2011 ─ The Verge
Although Seagate’s factories weren’t directly impacted by the huge flooding in Thailand, the company has been affected by the inventory shortages of components crucial to its supply chain. All Things D recently interviewed Seagate CEO Steve Luczo, who assessed the road that lies ahead for the industry: supply shortages will continue until at least late 2012, and the industry may not return to normal until the end of 2013. And while manufacturers are adapting to the shortage by including fewer parts in their drives by using a single higher-density disk with two heads instead of two disks with four heads, Luczo says price increases are inevitable. …
https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/23/2582677/thailand-flood-seagate-hard-drive-shortage
31 May 2012 … Thursday, 31 May 2012
By May Kunmakara
Phnom Penh Post
A US$37.9 million base plate factory will launch in June in the northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey, Japanese electronics manufacturer SC WADO Component Co said yesterday in a statement. …
“Our human resources are not attractive compared to Vietnam and Thailand. …”
http://khmerization.blogspot.com/2012/05/electronics-factory-to-open-computer.html
Jan 9, 2019 ─ Bangkok Post
Kasikorn Research Center (K-Research) forecasts Thai shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) to grow by 3.6-7.8% this year, making up 252-262 million pieces.
In 2017, many global manufacturers localised their HDD plants in Thailand, leading shipments to capture global market share of computer HDDs of 75.5%, up from 51% in 2015. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/1607942/k-research-predicts-growth-in-hard-disk-drive-exports
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2005-05-18 ─ tonsingemabaise
So recently my life has succeeded the depths of banality and mundanity. HA! You wish. If anyone’s life has done that, it is my brothers; he went to a party a couple of days ago and could not return home until 4 in the morning because of the alcohol in his system (something about wearing it off??). …
On another note, my computer has decided to crash and burn.&hnbsp; No seriously, I smelled smoke the other day. I guess it was due to a power outage that caused my hard drive to corrupt many Windows files. So for now, all my data (my 15 GB of Alias downloads, my hundreds of musical compositions, all my important school documents, etc.) is inaccessible. …
https://tonsingemabaise.livejournal.com/9638.html
Feb 14, 2019 ─ AnandTech
HOYA’s other substrate manufacturing capacities are located in Thailand, and Vietnam.
Nowadays glass substrates for HDD platters are mainly used to make media for 2.5-inch hard drives for laptops and datacenters. …
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13954/hoya-starts-to-build-nextgen-hdd-media-production-facility
17 Oct 2011 … After floods inundate hard-disk drive factories, producers may move to other countries to avoid a global supply shortage. …
With the world’s top four HDD manufacturers operating in Thailand, the country handles 60% of the global production. Japan’s Nidec, which supplies 70% of the world’s spindle motors for HDDs, also operates here. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/learning-news/261779/hard-disk-drive-industry-hit
Jul 20, 2018 ─ ExtremeTech
As the market shifts towards SSDs, Western Digital is winding down HDD production at one of its major factories and moving to focus on SSDs. …
Western Digital plans to shut down its factory near Kuala Lumpur, then sell the facility, Anandtech reports. Hard drive shipments have dropped significantly in recent years, after briefly spiking in the aftermath of the 2011 Thailand floods that heavily depressed drive production due to widespread water damage. …
WD is a vertically integrated hard drive manufacturer, which means it owns the facilities that handle its own production from start to finish. …
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/273849-western-digital-to-close-hdd-plant-increase-ssd-production
The country makes about a quarter of the world’s hard-disk drives and serves as the Southeast Asian production hub for Japanese carmakers. …
https://ki-media.blogspot.com/2011/10/thai-credibility-at-stake-as-factories.html
Sep 25, 2020 ─ BBC News
The iconic motorcycle company is pulling out of India as it struggles to sell its two-wheelers.
The iconic US motorcycle brand is stopping manufacturing and massively scaling back its sales operations. …
Auto experts put the blame on the brand’s failure to drive up volumes derive cost efficiencies by leveraging local tie-ups. …
Incidentally the bike maker has had a better run in other Asian markets like Thailand and Korea, precisely because the market and cost structures are more favourable. … Jesy Nelson leaves Little Mix: ‘The constant pressure is very hard‘4.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54290245
18 Oct 2011 … Major hard drive vendors and their suppliers have halted a significant portion of the world’s hard drives and related components in the face of severe monsoon flooding in Thailand.
Seagate, the second largest hard drive manufacturer, last week said that its hard drive factories are all in operation, and that its personnel are all safe. However, Seagate said in a statement, the component supply chain for its drives is being disrupted. …
https://www.crn.com/news/storage/231900987/massive-thailand-floods-likely-to-cause-widespread-hard-drive-shortage.htm
May 28, 2020 ─ CTV News
Japanese automaker Nissan plans to close auto plants in Spain and Indonesia after sinking into the red for the first time in 11 years as the pandemic squashed global demand and disrupted production.
Manufacturing now based in Indonesia will move to Thailand, as the Japanese automaker cuts global production by 20%. …
“The future remains unclear and it is extremely hard to predict,” said Uchida, who acknowledged Nissan could not yet give a financial projection for the current fiscal year. …
https://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/nissan-to-close-indonesia-spain-auto-plants-after-losses-1.4958239
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Too expensive to buy hard drives due to Thai flood? …
Drive manufacturers have raised prices by 20 to 40 percent and international electronics distributor Avnet Inc in turn has raised its prices by a similar amount after water poured into factories this month, said Avnet Senior Vice President Chuck Kostalnick. …
https://icydock-tw.blogspot.com/2011/11/
Aug 30, 2020 ─ BNN
Thailand’s baht could be at a turning point. It’s the second-worst performing currency in Asia this year, but expectations that the economy may bottom out over the next few months is spurring some bullish bets.
Amazon backs 26 green projects in drive to renewable energy … The baht lost ground as Thailand‘s tourism-dependent economy was hit hard by travel restrictions to control the coronavirus spread. …
Tuesday, Sept. 1: RBA rate decision, Australia building approvals and 2Q BoP current account balance and net exports of GDP, New Zealand building permits, Japan jobless rate, manufacturing PMI and 2Q capital spending and company profits, China Caixin manufacturing PMI, South Korea trade balance and 2Q GDP, Indonesia CPI, Thailand business sentiment index profits, China Caixin manufacturing PMI, South Korea trade balance and 2Q GDP, Indonesia CPI, Thailand …
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/thai-baht-at-crossroads-as-economy-seen-bottoming-out-this-year-1.1487145
Siam Toyota Manufacturing Co Ltd Thailand image from https://automotorpad.com
12 Apr 2020 ─ COVID and Supply Chains
Fantastic advice. Read the whole article.
Once again, though, they underestimate the impact this will have on consumption and production for the next year.
Critical shortages of medical equipment in the U.S. from the Covid-19 outbreak show the weakness of global supply chains. Some manufacturing needs to be done domestically.
— Read on www.barrons.com/articles/domestic-manufacturing-coronavirus-supply-chain-emergency-supplies-masks-51586549335
The U.S. can’t afford to lose its manufacturing base. …
Planning and preparation are crucial. After the 2011 monsoon flooding in Thailand, which inundated several of the country’s manufacturing regions, the hard–drive maker Western Digital quickly restored operations thanks to contingency planning. …
Supply ChainsEconomic Impactcash flowcascading cross defaults
https://covid19online.wordpress.com/2020/04/12/covid-19-pandemic-exposes-severe-weaknesses-in-u-s-domestic-manufacturing-barrons/
Apr 30, 2020 ─ The Star Online
BANGKOK, April 30 (The Nation/ANN) – Thailand‘s Manufacturing Production Index (MPI) in March fell 11.25 percent compared to the same month last year, said Thongchai Chawalitpichaet, director-general of the Office of Industrial Economics (OIE).
Industries that continued to expand in March included:
1. The hard-disk industry, which grew by 10.18 percent on the same period last year because of an increase in production and delivery orders after supply chain disruption in China and the closure of production bases in Malaysia and the Philippines, and increasing demand due to the global work-from-home policy, as well as manufacturers adjusting their production and shipments to maritime shipments due to reduced flights. …
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/04/30/thai-manufacturing-fell-1125-in-march
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Feb 1, 2020 ─ Bangkok Post
As the spread of the new coronavirus in China causes more factory shutdowns, the effect on global industrial supply chains could linger for years. …
Floods in Thailand in 2011 forced long-lasting changes to supply chains, even after immediate effects had dissipated. …
The International Monetary Fund has drawn attention to the particularly steep impact of so-called risky imports: items such as complex machine and vehicle parts, hard drives and certain electrical items that are particularly vulnerable to supply shocks. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1848069/coronavirus-quarantine-will-ripple-through-global-manufacturing
17 Dec 2011 … So I ask the Store manager why the sudden high price of disk drives. …
Two industry research firms, IHS iSuppli and IDC, have predicted that the overall market shortage due to factory flooding in Thailand will reach 25% to 28% over the next six months
The largest producer of hard drives, Western Digital is expected to be hit the hardest as IDC predicts that up to 75% of its production will be temporarily shut down, IDC said today …
https://entriesgeneral.blogspot.com/2011/12/hard-drive-shortage-expect-price-hike.html
Lightweight contender Rafael Fiziev steps into the cage in Las Vegas this weekend hoping to be the latest fighter to begin a journey to UFC glory from a production line of MMA champions on an island in Thailand.
Tiger Muay Thai gym on the southern resort island of Phuket was, before the coronavirus pandemic, attracting fighters from all over the globe lured by world-class training, an idyllic tropical beach lifestyle and a growing reputation. …
Though quarantine and travel restrictions have hit international fighters hard, the success of UFC champions who use Tiger Muay Thai for pre-fight camps, such as bantamweight Petr Yan of Russia and Kyrgyzstan’s fearsome flyweight Valentina Shevchenko, is continuing to inspire the next generation. …
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tiger-feat-island-muay-thai-gym-is-factory-for-ufc-champions/ar-BB1bNe5m
1 Nov 2011 … The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentially affecting notebook production in early 2012, research firm IHS iSuppli said on Monday.
Nidec said in a regulatory filing last week that operations at most of its factories in Thailand making HDD motors and motor components remain temporarily suspended. …
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2182752/thai-floods-hit-q4-hard-drive-production–says-research-firm.html
December 26, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
The global market that compares to the Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) Market Based On Competitive Intensity and How The Competition Will Take Shape in Coming Years. …
https://www.crediblemarkets.com/sample-request/hard-disk-recorder-hdr-market-analysis-2020-with-top-companies-production-revenue-consumption-price-and-growth-rate-market-677338?utm_source=Jhon …
Hard Disk Recorder (HDR) Market Regional Analysis Includes:
1. Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/88965/post-pandemic-era-global-hard-disk-recorder-hdr-market-analysis-2020-with-top-companies-production-revenue-consumption-price-and-growth-rate/
19 May 2020 … New evidence of deepening economic crisis came from Germany, China and elsewhere. For the second time in a month, a Brazilian health minister is leaving after clashing with the president.
Hard-liners are calling on Beijing to be more defiant, emboldened by the … China’s factories maintained a brisk pace last month, but Chinese …
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/world/coronavirus-news.html
December 23, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
Hard Drive Degausser Market competition by top manufacturers/Key player Profiled:
Garner, VS Security, Security Engineered Machinery, Proton Data Security, intimus, Data Security, Inc, Whitaker Brothers, IDEAL.MBM Corporation, Beijing Heshenda Information, ZhongChaoWeiye …
Market Regional Analysis Includes:
⇨ Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia,Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia)
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/38991/latest-news-hard-drive-degausser-market-2021-research-report-by-key-drivers-analysis-competitive-strategies-company-profiles-and-forecast-by-2026-with-top-keyplayers-garner-vs-security-security/
Amazon U.S. • Hard Disk Drive: Mechatronics and Control (Automation and Control Engineering)
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- Проблемы с USB-хабом или USB HDD [Problems with the USB hub or USB HDD]
2009-10-19 ─ timotv
я много видел на ресурсе otvet.mail.ru вопросов и озвученных проблем, которые были связаны с USB-хабами (внешние с дополнительным питанием), но я так и не повстречал нужного ответа. Я имею в виду следующие проблемы:
– usb hdd, подключенный к USB-хабу, нестабильно работает в процессе перекачивания данных (нестабильная скорость, крайне низкая скорость, отваливается подключение и снова происходит автоподключение), возможно зависание Windows. …
Не знаю в чем конкретно дело, но получается, что жесткие диски всё-равно потребляют ток из USB, будучи уже запитанными от собственного источника питания. Вот конкретный пример: источник питания у кейса STLab 3,5″ Hard Drive Enclosure имеет на своем корпусе отпечаток, заявляющий о 1800 мА. …
I saw a lot of questions and voiced problems on the otvet.mail.ru resource that were associated with USB hubs (external with additional power), but I never met the right answer. I mean the following problems:
– the usb hdd connected to the USB hub is unstable during the transfer of data (unstable speed, extremely low speed, connection falls off and auto-connect again), Windows may freeze. …I don’t know what exactly is the matter, but it turns out that hard drives still consume current from USB, being already powered from their own power source. Here’s a specific example: the power supply of the STLab 3.5″ Hard Drive Enclosure case has an imprint on its case claiming 1800 mA. … ─Google Translate
https://timotv.livejournal.com/16534.html
December 22, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
Global Hard Drive Market report shows the Industry Chain Structure as well as Macroeconomic Environment Analysis and Development Trend. …
Hard Drive Consumption Breakdown Data by Region: North America, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia-Pacific, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, Rest of Europe, Central & South America, Brazil, Rest of South America, Middle East & Africa, GCC Countries, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, Rest of Middle East & Africa. …
The Study Objectives of Hard Drive Market Report are:
… • To split the breakdown data by regions, type, manufacturers, and applications. …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/9037/hard-drive-market-share-growth-by-top-company-geographical-region-application-driver-trends-forecast-from-2020-2026/
6 Apr 2012 … Manufacturers are considering moving from Thailand and other countries threatened by flooding and other forces related to climate change, according to Pavin Chachavalpongpun, associate professor at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, in the second and final article of this two-part YaleGlobal series. The 2011 floods disrupted operations at 250 foreign factories in Thailand and led to price hikes of hard drives, auto parts and other electronics worldwide. …
SINGAPORE: As the monsoon season approaches Thailand, farmers are not alone in watching the rolling clouds, but also factory owners and workers. Unlike the farmers who hope for the rains to flood seedling plots, workers worry that devastating floods might follow and drown factories. …
https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/global-warming-real-and-has-consequences-part-ii
Dec 10, 2020 ─ Eater DC
Plus, a Miami restaurant and hookah lounge is headed to 14th Street NW
Läderach’s “bean-to-bar” line, handcrafted inside twin factories nestled in the Swiss Alps, gets shipped to its 100 retail stores around the globe. …
Its Wynwood menu includes Thai chili jerk wings, lobster fried rice, collard greens, and hookah service. …
https://dc.eater.com/2020/12/10/22167369/laderach-union-station-chocolate-am-intel
12 Nov 2011 … 04 November 2011
Thailand Floods Disrupt Supply Chains & Raise Inflationary Risks
By Simeon AngandOng Qiuying and Gerald Teo
The proverbial Noah’s Ark could do scarce when faced with a truly once in 50 years flooding event that has inundated a third of Thailand. …
Such is the case for Western Digital (WD), the world’s largest hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers, which has suspended its operations at the Bang Pa-in and Nava Nakorn industrial parks. …
Seagate, the second largest HDD manufacturing giant, said that the effects of the Thailand flood on the HDD industry are likely to be substantial and will extend over multiple quarters. …
https://kfc1973-stock.blogspot.com/2011/11/thailand-floods-disrupt-supply-chains.html
December 29, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
Market Segmentation: By Type
… External Hard Drives …
Regions Covered in the Global External Storage Market Report 2021:
… • Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) …
… Chapter 8 Manufacturing Cost Analysis
Chapter 9 Industrial Chain, Sourcing Strategy and Downstream Buyers …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/133166/comprehensive-report-on-external-storage-market-2021-size-growth-demand-opportunities-forecast-to-2027-hitachi-data-systems-seagate-technology-llc-netapp-inc-pure-storage/
9 Nov 2011 … Since July, an almost unceasing torrent of rain has soaked Thailand, flooding farms, roads, factories, and finally Bangkok itself, a city of some 12 million people; so far at least 500 people have died. To date the government has ordered evacuations of 12 of the city’s 50 districts, even as water continues to creep through… read more …
With over a 1,000 Thai factories now closed due to flooding, hard–drive production in the country could be reduced by 25 to 40 percent according to IDC, a market research firm. …
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/09/asia’s-motown-meets-waterworld-the-global-water-supply-chain-crisis/
December 28, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
The cost analysis of the Global Asset Recovery Services Market has been performed while keeping in view manufacturing expenses, labor cost, and raw materials and their market concentration rate, suppliers, and price trend. Other factors such as Supply chain, downstream buyers, and sourcing strategy have been assessed to provide a complete and in-depth view of the market. …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/124901/impact-of-covid-19-on-asset-recovery-services-market-by-2027-dell-iqor-sims-recycling-hpe-lenovo/
18 Aug 2014 … Aug 17, 2014
Twenty years ago, Singapore accounted for up to half the hard disk drives shipped across the globe. Soon, the last hard disk drive assembly plant will shut down. …
While dozens of hard disk drive manufacturers planted their flags in Singapore in those heady years, now there is only one assembly facility left – HGST, a unit of United States-based Western Digital. …
HGST plans to eventually shift its disk drive assembly operations to Thailand due to cost concerns.
https://heresthenews.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-hard-disk-drive-sector-lost-its-mojo.html
December 28, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
The market has witness significant growth in the years due to the rising investments towards expansion and up-gradation of waste water treatment facilities and a positive outlook for industrial sector will drive the demand in the forecast period. …
Based on regions, the Automotive Ozone Generator Market is classified into North America, Europe, Asia- Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America
… Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) …
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Image from The Lessons of Thailand’s Flood: https://spectrum.ieee.org
19 Feb 2020 ─ CNN
General Motors added that it will pull back elsewhere in Asia Pacific. It will stop selling Chevrolet vehicles in Thailand by the end of this year, and it has agreed to sell a manufacturing plant there to Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors. …
“I’ve often said that we will do the right thing, even when it’s hard,” said CEO Mary Barra. “This is one of those times.”
Barra has been on a mission to remake General Motors since becoming chief executive in 2014. …
https://thecaliforniasun.com/gm-is-killing-off-an-iconic-160-year-old-brand/
December 30, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
Market Segmentation: By Type
… Hard Disk Drives …
Regions Covered in the Global Video Surveillance & Storage Market Report 2021:
… • Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) …
… Chapter 8 Manufacturing Cost Analysis …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/155732/comprehensive-report-on-video-surveillance-storage-market-2021-trends-growth-demand-opportunities-forecast-to-2027-fujitsu-pelco-inc-seagate-technology-llc-robert-bosch-gmbh/
11 Nov 2011 … Heavy flooding in Thailand won’t hurt PC sales significantly this holiday season, research group IDC says.
Many factories that produce hard drives in Thailand have temporarily closed as flooding has gradually spread since August. Prices for hard drives have spiked, and computer makers such as Dell Inc. and Apple Inc. have been monitoring supplies. …
https://www.ctvnews.ca/group-expects-thai-floods-to-hurt-pcs-in-new-year-1.724765
December 2, 2020 ─ msnNOW
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s highest court is set to rule Wednesday on whether Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has breached ethics clauses in the country’s constitution and should be ousted from his position.
The Constitutional Court will rule on a complaint brought by the Pheu Thai Party, the largest opposition grouping in Parliament, that Prayuth has broken the law by continuing to live in his military residence after he retired as army commander in September 2014. …
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thai-leader-faces-court-ruling-that-could-cost-him-his-job/ar-BB1bxMaf
28 May 2020 … … as many people would choose to drive or take high-speed trains rather than fly. … The government of Thailand, which derives about 20 per cent of its GDP from … jobs, shrink production and restructure some of its French factories as the … …
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https://www.ft.com/content/a762ecb7-b3b6-3423-a96f-4f05ec4c739c
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 ─ The Herald Review
BANGKOK — Thailand has reported 250 new coronavirus cases, including 241 local transmissions, as the country grapples with an intensifying outbreak. …
India is expected to start a vaccination drive for some 300 million people early next month. …
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s top health official says hospitals in hard-hit Los Angeles County are turning to “crisis care” and bracing for the coronavirus surge to worsen in the new year. …
The two companies have said they could provide up to 1.3 billion doses of the vaccine worldwide by the end of 2021, but manufacturing constraints could reduce that amount. …
https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/The-Latest-Chinese-vaccine-shipment-arrives-in-15835405.php
27 Apr 2012 … What tech manufacturers and suppliers have been saying about the impact from heavy flooding in Thailand:
Oct. 12, 2011: Seagate Technology PLC, which makes hard drives, says its factories in Thailand have been operational, but it may have difficulty making hard drives because of constraints in getting parts.
Oct. 17: Computer hard drive maker Western Digital Corp. says flooding damage to its Thailand locations will have a significant impact on its operations and its ability to meet customer demand the rest of the year. …
https://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2012/04/27/thai_flooding_impact_on_tech_companies_suppliers/
Tue., December 29, 2020 ─ Yahoo Canada Finance
Stocks dropped Tuesday after hitting fresh record highs earlier in the session, as traders’ hopes for a larger round of direct checks to consumers faded. The S&P 500 and Dow each ended a three-day winning streak. Baird Investment Strategy Analyst Ross Mayfield and Ark Invest Client Portfolio Manager Ren Leggi joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss.
Since Adam and the Dream Factory Co have been strategizing and running campaigns … As the yellowish mud swirls away in the waters of Thailand‘s Sai Buri river, … hard hit by the collapse of tourism amid coronavirus travel restrictions. … USA, Canada, Japan, China and Europe will drive the 4.2% CAGR …
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/video/market-recap-tuesday-december-29-215102619.html
11 Dec 2010 … We all know that female children, like the adorable Isaan girls in this photo, are less valued than boys in many Asian countries.
It’s true in Thailand. …
And in Buddhist countries, such as Thailand, the obligation is deepened by the precepts of the religion. …
The vast majority of workers in the factories that drive China’s economic boom are young women, anywhere from sixteen years old to their late twenties. …
It is hard to believe–after seeing the beautiful faces above–some of the conditions in Thailand which adversely affect girls, such as being pulled from school to work. …
https://murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com/2010/12/thing-about-girls.html
Mon., December 28, 2020 ─ Yahoo News Canada
This wild deer found the perfect place to take a nap! Filmed in Alabaster, Alabama, USA.
Drive-through ballots – Israel’s solution to voting in a pandemic … electric vehicles have been stymied by a lack of investment in manufacturing and … If no deal is reached, there are serious concerns that a hard border would cause … Anutin, who is also Thailand‘s public health minister, wrote on Facebook …
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/wild-deer-takes-quick-nap-183002704.html
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- Восстановление (разблокировка) SSD диска OCZ Vertex [Recovery (unlocking) of OCZ Vertex SSD drive]
Feb. 3rd, 2014 ─ Айван [Ivan]
Впервые я это опубликовал тут , а в ЖЖ делаю репост:
У дисков OCZ серии Vertex есть неприятная особенность (возможно, присущая дискам и других производителей), с которой пришлось мне столкнуться.
Иногда при отключении питания (например, кончился заряд батарей ноутбука, или комп завис и пришлось его перезагрузить) эти диски блокируются ATA паролем (ATA password). …
For the first time I published it here, and in LJ I repost it:
The OCZ Vertex series drives have an unpleasant feature (perhaps common to drives from other manufacturers) that I had to face.
Sometimes when the power is turned off (for example, the laptop’s batteries run out, or the computer freezes and had to be rebooted), these disks are locked with an ATA password. … ─Google Translate
Что интересно, так это, то, что теперь при команде “sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda он стал показывать другие показания, выглядело следующим образом:
What is interesting is that now when the command “sudo hdparm -I / dev / sda” it began to show different readings, it looked like this: ─Google Translate
ATA device, with non-renovable nedla 500 Sertal Number Standards: Likely used: 1 Configuratton: hard sectored not MFM encoded Logical current Max 2648 e cylinders 4579 heads sectors/track 24946 bytes/track: e bytes/sector: 8 512 bytes Logical/Physical Sector stze: device stze with M 1024*1024 114227734 MBytes device size with M 1000 1000 119776460 MBytes (119776 GB) cache/buffer stze unknown Capabiutttes: IORDY not uikely Cannot perforn double-word IO R/W Multiple sector transfer: not supported DMA: not supported PIO: ploe …
https://ayvan.livejournal.com/39258.html
December 28, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
Growing health benefits by the usage of CBD oils increased the demand of CBD oil and drive the CBD oil market growth. …
Many product developments are also initiated by the companies worldwide which are also accelerating the growth of CBD oil market. …
Geographically, this report is segmented into several key regions, with sales, revenue, market share and growth Rate of Europe CBD Oil in these regions, from 2020 to 2027, covering
… • Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam) …
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Thailand Floods affecting the HArd drives industry, through Q4 2012.
Thailand Flood Impact on HDD Market
What we know so far:
• Worst flooding in 50 years
• More than two-thirds of the country is flooded
• 14,000 factories have been affected …
• Hard Drive Related
• All capacities and interfaces are affected as well as downstream supply partners
• Q4’11 volumes will be short approximately 25-30%
• Q1’12 could be worse as inventory dries up
• This is happening in conjuction with industry consolidation (WD/Hitachi & Seagate/Samsung)
• This is an ongoing and volatile situation
https://www.backupworks.com/hard-drive-impact-assessment-thailand-flooding.aspx
December 30, 2020 ─ CarAdvice
It seems like an eternity ago that General Motors executives from Detroit shocked Australia by announcing the Holden brand would be axed on the last day of 2020. Now that day has come.
The announcement in February 2020 that Holden was pulling out of Australia altogether – less than three years after closing its local factories and amid its weakest sales in more than 60 years – came moments before the world was gripped by the coronavirus crisis. …
It’s only fair factory workers get a fair day’s pay for a hard day’s work. …
Those two overseas factories turned out to be the last two assembly lines General Motors had in right-hand-drive countries: India and Thailand.
https://www.caradvice.com.au/912429/vale-holden-end-of-the-road-after-72-years/
27 Jan 2020 … The new coronavirus is spreading faster than SARS – and it may be because it can be passed on before a person shows any sign of symptoms
Advertisement. Confirmed cases have been reported in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, the US, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, France, South Korea, Vietnam, Canada and Nepal. All of the recorded deaths have so far been in Hubei province. …
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2231453-new-coronavirus-may-be-much-more-contagious-than-initially-thought/
Dec. 29, 2020 ─ Eco-Business
Migrants are the quintessential global citizens, leaving their places of birth and moving across borders in search of new livelihoods; but ruptures caused by COVID-19 have exposed major fault lines…
Between a rock and a hard place: early experience of migration challenges under the COVID-19 pandemic, a working paper under the AGRUMIG project, traces early COVID-19 impacts on migrants from seven countries, including China, Ethiopia, Morocco and Thailand. …
In contrast, informal migrants from Laos and Myanmar working in construction, shops, factories and domestic settings in Thailand lacked work contracts, industry standards and termination conditions. …
The rupture remains, therefore, in the logistics rather than the economic calculations that drive movement, and this suggests that migration will bounce back in time – despite the additional risks and the increased control, scrutiny and stigmatization that many migrants will face in a post-pandemic world. …
https://www.eco-business.com/news/from-ruptures-to-fault-lines-tracing-the-global-impact-of-covid-19-on-migrants-and-rural-development/
6 Dec 2011 … The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the supply chain management industry.
More than a dozen hard disk drive factories have been shut due to flooding in Thailand. PC manufacturers have been bracing for significant supply shortages. In the first half of 2011, Thailand accounted for 40 percent to 45 percent of worldwide hard disk drive production. …
https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/12054-orders-for-solid-state-drives-flood-in-as-many-thai-hard-disk-factories-remain-swamped
Dec 30, 2020 ─ Nasdaq
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) – In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” the protagonist inexplicably shoots an albatross that had hitherto acted as his ship’s lucky charm. In 2021 a similar fate is set to befall one of the United Kingdom’s golden geese: duty-free perks for foreign tourists.
It will be hard to recoup these lost tax receipts. …
without having to spend billions of dollars on building factories. … What’s great about Fisker’s model is that it relies on others to invest in capital equipment that will drive its growth. … Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand are closed for holidays.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/breakingviews-uks-duty-free-golden-goose-will-become-albatross-2020-12-30
6 Apr 2013 … By Stephen Sulaski
Likelihood is you have heard that hdd (HDD) prices are increasing rapidly because of widespread inundating in Thailand. The monsoons involving 2011 brought factory production to your standstill. The human being toll has been devastating since hundreds need perished and millions have been displaced. Everything Bank estimates the finance loss at 45 thousand dollars thus, making this the fourth most costly disaster ever sold. …
https://teching2y.blogspot.com/2013/04/hard-disk-drive-prices-skyrocket.html
Here are the best resolutions for each sign so make 2021 the best year!
In 2021 Aries people should learn to channel their vast energy and pick up a new sport as an outlet to let loose after a hard day at work.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/horoscope/the-perfect-new-year-s-resolutions-for-each-zodiac-sign-in-2021/ss-BB1aWgAi
Toshiba Semiconductor (Thailand) factory in the 304 Industrial Park in Prachin Buri: https://www.bangkokpost.com
Irvine, CA based Hard Drive Recovery Associates (HDRA) recently published a blog post that covers the effect that the coronavirus, now formally known as COVID-19, has had on the tech industry since the beginning of the pandemic. Accessible through their website, the company hopes that the post will help readers understand how the tech industry has changed and where it may go in the coming months. …
As the infection began to take hold in greater numbers, the first case reported outside China was a woman who had traveled to Thailand from Wuhan. The next international case was reported in Japan, who was also a man who had traveled from Wuhan. …
Press Releases
https://harddrivefailurerecoveryblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/coronavirus-news-shared-by-hdra/
December 30, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
Market Segment By Type: Police Optical Storage, Solid State Storage, Flash Memory Devices, External Hard Drives, …
Regions Covered in the Global External Storage Market:
… • Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) …
Some of the key questions answered in this report:
… What is sales volume, revenue, and price analysis of top manufacturers of External Storage market?
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/158302/external-storage-market-discussed-in-a-new-research-report-2020-to-2027-global-market-visionnetapp-emc-hewlett-ibm-toshiba-hitachi-seagate-pure-storage-fujitsu-dell-huawei/
4 Nov 2011 … With many factory floors now under water, the country’s hard drive output could be slashed by 25 to 40 percent, according to research firm IDC. …
Seagate, whose corporate officers are based in Silicon Valley, said its hard drive factories in Thailand were unaffected by the flooding. However, it said its shipments could drop by as much as 20 percent this quarter.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/11/04/silicon-valley-companies-may-feel-impact-of-thailand-floods/
December 31, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
Market Segmentation by Type:
… Hard Drive Players
All-In-One Systems …
Table of Contents
Global In-Home Karaoke Market Research Report 2020 – 2026
… Chapter 3 Global Market Competition by Manufacturers
Chapter 4 Global Production, Revenue (Value) by Region …
Chapter 8 Manufacturing Cost Analysis …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/184826/comprehensive-report-on-in-home-karaoke-market-2020-size-growth-demand-opportunities-forecast-to-2026-dam-thunderstone-inandon-evideo-u-best/
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Seagate’s hard drive and component assembly factories in Thailand were not submerged, but manufacturing at those facilities has been curtailed due to external component constraints. …
https://itbizcharts.blogspot.com/2011/11/
December 31, 2020 ─ Factory Gate
The global Hard Drive Enclosures market is broadly analyzed in this report that sheds light on critical aspects such as the vendor landscape, competitive strategies, market dynamics, and regional analysis. … Table Of Contents:
… 1.3 Key Hard Drive Enclosures Manufacturers Covered: Ranking by Revenue …
9.2.2 Asia Pacific Hard Drive Enclosures Revenue by Region …
9.2.10 Thailand …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/202057/hard-drive-enclosures-market-discovered-in-latest-report-and-forecast-by-2026-mediasonic-vantec-inateck/
16 Dec 2011 … Climate Central bridges the scientific community and the public, providing clear information to help people make sound decisions about the climate.
During the fall, massive flooding in Thailand inundated the factories of some of the world’s leading hard–drive manufacturers, such as Western Digital. According to the Wall Street Journal, 40 percent of all hard drives on the market are built in Thailand. …
https://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/want-a-new-hard-drive-expect-to-pay-more-thanks-to-thailand-floods
02 Jan 2021 ─ CNA
Entrepreneurs banking on electric vehicles as one of the solutions to tackle climate change are positioning themselves early, as Thailand looks to ramp up production. …
A national roadmap will aim to promote EV manufacturing to the extent that it makes up 30 per cent of total annual car production, or about 750,000 units, by the end of the decade. …
“… It’s hard for them to see the benefits that EVs can have,” she said. …
They are parked in specific locations and can be hired to self-drive for as short time as an hour.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/climatechange/in-focus-thailand-electric-vehicles-tesla-carbon-emissions-13792698
30 Apr 2013 … A blog by documentary photojournalist & travel photographer Jack Kurtz about photography & photojournalism.
Burmese crewmen on a Thai fishing trawler returning to port in Mahachai. …
They crew the fishing trawlers that sail out of the town, they work in the fish processing plants and high tech electronics factories in the area. …
The global supply chains were gridlocked in 2011 when flooding in Thailand made it all but impossible to buy a computer hard drive.
https://jackkurtzphotography.blogspot.com/2013/04/
January 2, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
The new merchant applicants in the market are finding it hard to compete with the international vendors based on reliability, quality and modernism in technology. …
Major Key Players of the Market: Weyergans High Care AG, Inogen, Leistung Engineering, Drive Medical / DeVilbiss Healthcare, Zoom, Philips Healthcare, AirSep, Philips Respironics, POD Oxygen, Yuwell, SeQual, Foshan Keyhub Electronic Industries Co. Ltd., Jiuxin Medical, Live O2 Oxygen, Boost Oxygen, Zadro, Chart Caire / AirSep / Sequal, Invacare, Longfian Scitech, Oxygen Plus, InventHelp & NTK …
Regional Analysis for Global Consumer and Recreational Oxygen Equipment Market:
• APAC (Japan, China, South Korea, Australia, India, and Rest of APAC is further segmented into Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, New Zealand, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka) …
Oxygen Equipment Market:
… 4. Exactly how do the most important companies and mid-level companies make income within the Market?
5. Complete research on the overall development within the Consumer and Recreational Oxygen Equipment Market that helps you elect the product launch and overhaul growths.
https://factorygate.co.uk/latest-news/838603/consumer-and-recreational-oxygen-equipment-market-swot-analysis-by-key-players-pod-oxygen-yuwell-sequal/
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04 Jan 2006
thailand is really great.
im “forced” to eat tons of delicious vegan food all the time.
the people i live with tell me that it is there goal for me to gain 7 kilos (about 15 lbs) before i leave.
i’m almost there.
there have been continual attempts by the old people in my village to set me up with thai boys. one of them looked like a thai david bowie.
Drooool
little do they know how much im swooning over my host sister. …
https://xalexploitedx.livejournal.com/
Here are 3 companies that are giving them a run for their money. … Thailand reported 279 new cases on Friday including two deaths. …
Australia’s leading medical group says the New South Wales state government has put the rest of the country at risk by its decision not to go “hard and early” in its response to the COVID-19 outbreak on Sydney’s northern beaches, which is suspected to have also caused new cases in …
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/top-reviews-2020-polestar-2-180000321.html
25 Nov 2011 … The impact of the Thai floods is becoming clearer for both large computer manufacturers such as Dell but also for consumers as online sellers ration scarce hard drives.
The full extent of the impact of the devastating floods in Thailand on the tech industry is only now becoming clear. Computer manufacturers are warning that the shortage could dent their profits, and retailers are rationing hard drives in an attempt to deal with shortages caused by the closure of flooded factories. …
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/thailand-floods-hard-disk-shortage-hits-manufacturers-retailers-and-you-3591701.html
Jul 8, 2020 ─ Forbes
Data center high-capacity HDDs are the biggest HDD growth market. Western Digital is now shipping enterprise grade 16 and 18 TB CMR HDDs with energy assisted magnetic recording with 20 TB SMR HDDs in qualification.
Western Digital announced updates in their nearline data center hard disk drive (HDD) portfolio. The new sealed helium filled HDDs have capacities of 16 and 18 TB, implement a version of energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) and use three pivot points to place heads on the disk surfaces. …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2020/07/08/western-digital-data-center-16-20-tb-hdds/
20 Dec 2017 … Permanently moved to new blog https://nimidam.com
Key to the faster adoption of this technologies lies with the CDNs, which control most of the video streaming content today. Also how the SSD as a technology is adopted widely. It has seen some minor blocks in the form of floodings in Thailand(where more than 60% of hard disks factories are present).
Posted 10th April 2012 by Anonymous…
https://chinthanaigal.blogspot.com/
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon wants to remind the world that his bank is looking to make an acquisition.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/12/wd_thai_floods/
Water and high-tech factories dont mix well
By Chris Mellor
Posted in Storage, 12th October 2011 14:41 GMT
Western Digital has temporarily suspended disk drive-related production in its Thailand sites close to Bangkok due to severe flooding. …
These employees helped WD ship around 54 million hard disk drives from its plants in Thailand and Malaysia in the quarter, which finished on 1 July, 2011, with about 32.5 million coming from Thailand. …
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/15096-thai-floods-halt-wd-hard-disk-fabs/
4 Jan 2021 ─ Bangkok Post
She always wears her hair in a bun. A measuring tape drapes her neck when she leaves her desk to greet visitors at her home in Ban Sa-ngo in Muang District of Bueng Kan province in the Northeast. …
Ban Sa-ngo is located on the banks of the Mekong River in tambon Ho Kham, about a 30-minute drive from the city and about 10 hours drive from Bangkok. …
The group produced clothes for a garment factory in Bangkok, however, the 1997 economic crisis forced the factory to close leading Somporn to close the group. …
It was hard to tell if this fabric was made by our group or by weavers in Kalasin, Maha Sarakham or Roi Et. …
Therefore, she began to look for a solution and an opportunity arose when she attended a workshop organised by Thailand Textile Institute for handicraft groups in five provinces in the upper part of the Northeast. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/2045119/weaving-the-way-to-a-better-future
17 May 2012 … President of Bluedial, online retailer of brand-name watches, anticipates a shortage in the supply of Casio watches due to the flood crisis in Thailand where many manufacturing plants, including watch parts suppliers, are stationed. …
Thailand is home to many industrial factories that provide a great amount of supplies to the world including hard disk drives and automobiles.
https://rinxwatches.blogspot.com/2012/05/why-is-it-slow-season-for-casio-watches.html
Jun 9, 2020 ─ Financial Times
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
Before the pandemic both countries were winning new investments in manufacturing by multinational companies, including Chinese groups, …
Please note that the article can only be accessed by paid subscribers. ─Garnet H.G. Barcelo
https://www.ft.com/content/aa1343ad-4f45-47a8-bf36-19fc0a58b90c
Partially-submerged factories in floodwaters in Pathum Thani (October 20, 2011): https://phys.org
Challenges for Cambodian Workers in Thailand
3 Jan 2020 ─ Political Observer in Cambodia and ASEAN
The following statements are my personal notes during my research on Microfinance Issues in Cambodia in 2017 and 2018. This is my personal reflection and it is not connected to Royal Academy of Cambodia.
During my trip to various districts of Banteay Meanchey and Battambang provinces, I have conversation with many Cambodian villagers who family members escaped to Thailand to work as construction workers and farmers in Thailand. I also read different articles related to Cambodian workers in Thailand since I want to know more and more about challenges of Cambodian workers in Thailand and/ or in other countries. …
I feel very sad and sometimes I drop tear automatically when I listen to hard situation of Cambodian workers in Thailand since my father used to work as migrant in Thailand as well. I just think of my father when I listen to those migrants whom I met in Banteay Meanchey province. …
https://samseun.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/challenges-for-cambodian-workers-in-thailand-2/
Thai HDD industry: a choice to stay or walk away?
Jul 30, 2017 ─ Thailand Business News
Thailand is ranked the second largest Hard Disk Drive (HDD) producer in the world after China, with large manufacturers like Western Digital (WDC) and Seagate Technology (Seagate), along with part producers such as Nidec, Minebea, and TDK.
WDC cut back production in Malaysia and expanded in Thailand’s Prachinburi province while Seagate terminated factories in China and Malaysia and increased investment in their production base in Nakornratchasima province in Thailand. …
https://www.thailand-business-news.com/economics/58794-thai-hdd-industry-choice-stay-walk-away.html
Hard drive shortages and price increases – MemoryC.com Blog
28 Oct 2011 … Hi all,
You might be wondering what is going on with our range of hard drives – prices increasing every day, and stock selling out and not being replenished!
Well – the floods in Thailand (where the majority of the world’s hard drives are manufactured) have closed down several Western Digital factories, along with other factories manufacturing vital HDD components for all the world’s hard drive manufactureres. … Continue reading Hard drive shortages and price increases …
https://www.memoryc.com/blog/2011/10/hard-drive-shortages-increases/
M&A Activity in Embedded Hard Disk Video Recorder Market to Set New Growth Cycle
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
Global Embedded Hard Disk Video Recorder Market Report 2020 by Key Players, Types, Applications, Countries, Market Size, Forecast to 2026 (Based on 2020 COVID-19 Worldwide Spread) is latest research study released by HTF MI evaluating the market, highlighting opportunities, risk side analysis, and leveraged with strategic and tactical decision-making support. …
*** For global report, countries by region that are available in the study
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4. Global Embedded Hard Disk Video Recorder Production, Consumption by Regions (2014-2025) …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/855647/ma-activity-in-embedded-hard-disk-video-recorder-market-to-set-new-growth-cycle/
Epoxy Floor Coating Thailand | Epoxy Floor
An incredibly tough epoxy resin mortar for repairing damaged cracked or dangerous concrete floors. Thailand and chugoku marine paints ltd japan has over 100 years experiences. …
Its time again for pcis annual ranking of the top 10 global and top 25 north american paint and coating manufacturers. …
Cemprotec e942 incorporates the benefits of copolymer and epoxy resin technologies into a water based cementitious system to give a hard durable coating with excellent resistance to water chloride ions oxygen and aggressive chemicals. …
Here was drive us to a one of largest construction chemical manufacturer in thailand.
https://gypsyfoxicons.blogspot.com/2019/12/epoxy-floor-coating-thailand.html
Why Thailand’s smart electronics sector still remains a magnet for investors
4 Jan 2021 ─ Bangkok Post
From his headquarters on the appropriately named Hi-Tech Industrial Estate north of Bangkok, U.S. electronics company executive Ronald Rocha marvels at the success of his firm’s investment in Thailand.
“In the past, companies would go to countries like Thailand just to reduce cost. …” …
It is the world’s second largest exporter of computer hard disc drives, air conditioners and washing machines, ranks sixth in compressors and 8th in refrigerators, according to GSB Research, a unit of Thailand’s largest state-owned bank. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2036923/why-thailands-smart-electronics-sector-still-remains-a-magnet-for-investors
Thai Floods Hit Q4 Hard Drive Production, Says Research Firm | PCWorld
31 Oct 2011 … The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentially affecting notebook production in early 2012, research firm IHS iSuppli said on Monday. …
Nidec said in a regulatory filing last week that operations at most of its factories in Thailand making HDD motors and motor components remain temporarily suspended. …
https://www.pcworld.com/article/242913/thai_floods_hit_q4_hard_drive_production_says_research_firm.html
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
The recent report on “Global Asset Recovery Services Market Report 2020 by Key Players, Types, Applications, Countries, Market Size, Forecast to 2026” offered by Credible Markets, comprises of a comprehensive investigation into the geographical landscape, industry size along with the revenue estimation of the business. Additionally, the report also highlights the challenges impeding market growth and expansion strategies employed by leading companies in the “Asset Recovery Services Market”. …
https://factorygate.co.uk/latest-news/863936/asset-recovery-services-market-report-2021-by-segmentations-key-company-profiles-demand-forecasts-to-2021-2026/
Doom’s Day ጥፋተ-ዓለም: Thailand Floods Recede but still going 20/11/11
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Thai factories supply about 40 percent of the world HDD market and while analysts do not see much of an impact on PC sales in the Christmas holiday shopping season, conditions will remain tight into 2012. …
https://doomsday-ethiopianism.blogspot.com/2011/11/thailand-floods-recede-still-going-2011.html
January factory output down 4.6%
Feb 26, 2020 ─ Bangkok Post
Thailand‘s manufacturing production index (MPI) contracted for a ninth straight month in January, down 4.59% from a year earlier, hit by lower production of cars, sugar and palm oil, the industry ministry said on Wednesday. …
But production of hard disk drives rose 13.5% last month year on year and air conditioners jumped nearly 22%. …
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1866084/january-factory-output-down-4-6-
Amazon U.S. • Supply Chain Resilience: Reducing Vulnerability to Economic Shocks, Financial Crises, and Natural Disasters
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- Установка macOS на компьютер с помощью VMWare [Installing macOS on a computer using VMWare]
Nov. 27th, 2019 ─ Step-by-step. Пошаговые заметки [Step by step notes]
Замечательная инструкция:
Установка macOS на компьютер с помощью VMWare
На всякий случай привожу ее в полном объеме:
Установка macOS Mojave на компьютер через VMWare
17.08.2017 Обновлено 14.11.2019
Оглавление
Введение
Требования
Инструкция
Советы
§ Введение
Запустить операционную систему macOS Mojave «поверх» Windows на ПК или ноутбуке можно с помощью виртуальных машин — программ, которые эмулируют работу одной операционной системы в среде другой. …
§ Инструкция
… Выбор папки для VMWare
7. Откройте настройки созданной ВМ из начального экрана и удалите Hard Disk. …
9. После выберите “Use an Existing Virtual Disk” и укажите путь к образу с macOS Mojave (большой файл с расширением vmdk).
Great instruction:
Installing macOS on a computer using VMWare
Just in case, I give it in full:
Installing macOS Mojave on a computer via VMWare
08/17/2017 Updated 11/14/2019
Table of contents
Introduction
Requirements
Instructions
Advice
§ Introduction
You can run the macOS Mojave operating system “on top” of Windows on a PC or laptop using virtual machines – programs that emulate the operation of one operating system in the environment of another. …§ Instruction
…Folder selection for VMWare
7. Open the settings of the created VM from the start screen and delete Hard Disk. …
9. Then select “Use an Existing Virtual Disk” and specify the path to the image with macOS Mojave (large file with the vmdk extension). ─Google Translate
https://bga68.livejournal.com/625748.html
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
The Report Titled on “Global Hard Drive Recovery Services Industry Market Report-Development Trends, Threats, Opportunities and Competitive Landscape in 2020” firstly introduced the Hard Drive Recovery Services Industry basics: Definitions, Classifications, Applications and Market Overview; product specifications; manufacturing processes; cost structures, raw materials and so on. …
Hard Drive Recovery Services Industry Market: Regional analysis includes:
⇨ Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/866039/hard-drive-recovery-services-market-size-growth-factor-key-players-regional-demand-trends-and-forecast-to-2026/
2 Dec 2011 … Western Digital, a producer of hard drives, reopened two flooded factories in Thailand today and raised guidance on Q2 revenue to $1.8 billion, vs. views of $1.2 billion, as prices for hard drives rise due to a worldwide shortage.
Thailand, the source of nearly half the global supply of hard drives, experienced record monsoon floods in October, causing damage to over 12 hard–drive manufacturing plants. … Read More …
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/western-digital-hard-drives-thailand-flooding/
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
External Controller-Based Disk Storage Market research report is the new statistical data source added by A2Z Market Research. …
Regions Covered in the Global External Controller-Based Disk Storage Market Report 2020:
… • Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) …
Table of Contents
… Chapter 3 Global Market Competition by Manufacturers …
https://factorygate.co.uk/latest-news/884112/comprehensive-report-on-external-controller-based-disk-storage-market-2020-trends-growth-demand-opportunities-forecast-to-2026-emc-fujitsu-oracle-ibm-huawei/
18 Jan 2017 … This is an essay I wrote during my development-economics master based on work I had been doing for years at EABER. I recognise that it is lame AF to post university essays, but this constantly comes up in discussions and I want something to reference without having to re-write it. …
A case study of the Thai hard disk drive industry will provide an example of how this development pathway works in practice. …
These technologies allow production to be managed across several geographically dispersed factories.
https://markfabian.blogspot.com/2017/01/why-infant-industry-protection-doesnt.html
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
Not to mention, the data is collected only from the dependable sources such as journals, newspapers, company websites and annual reports of the companies on which Building And Construction Sheets industry can rely confidently. Businesses are highly relying on the different segments covered in the market research report which gives better insights to drive the business into right direction. …
The countries covered in the Building And Construction Sheets Market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA), Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America. …
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https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/889431/building-and-construction-sheets-market-2021-to-2027-emerging-trends-and-strong-application-scope-leading-players-gaf-atlas-roofing-corporation-certainteed-owens-corning/
16 Dec 2011 … An industry wakes up to heavy reliance on flood zone factories.
If certain PCs, hard drives or other electronics are suddenly more expensive or backordered in your city, chances are their production relies on Thai factories recovering from neck-high floods. The pungent waters, which shut down more than 800 factories employing roughly 450,000 workers, are now struggling to repair or replace equipment left soaking for weeks. …
https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-12-16/tech-world-still-shudders-after-thai-floods
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
Moreover, factors like urbanization, high population growth, and a growing middle-class population with higher disposable income are also forecasted to drive market growth. …
The countries covered in the Moisture Curing Adhesives Market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA), Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America. …
Leading Moisture Curing Adhesives manufacturers/companies operating at both regional and global levels: 3M, Huntsman International LLC, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, H.B. Fuller Company, Sika AG, Royal Adhesives & Sealants, Dow, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Bostik, Jowat SE, Permabond LLC, Apollo, Pidilite Industries Ltd, Master Bond Inc., Dymax Corporation, Panacol-Elosol GmbH, Tosoh Corporation, Franklin International, Daubert Chemical Company and MAPEI S.p.A among other domestic and global players. …
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14 Sep 2020 … The Lancet COVID-19 Commission was launched on July 9, 2020, to assist governments, civil society, and UN institutions in responding effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic. …
We call on all relevant UN agencies to take concrete steps with the digital industry and governments to accelerate universal access to digital services, including public–private financing to extend connectivity to hard-to-reach populations. …
Urgent surveying should be undertaken to identify humanitarian needs and hunger hotspots, especially among the poor, older people, people living with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, women who are vulnerable, young children, refugees, people who are incarcerated, people working in high-risk jobs (eg, meatpacking plants or guest workers), and other minority populations (including ethnic, racial, and religious minorities). …
19 places achieved suppression in August: Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Viet Nam; Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Cambodia; China; Myanmar; Malaysia; New Zealand; Uganda; Togo; Pakistan; Latvia; Luxembourg; Uruguay; Republic of Korea; Finland; Cuba; and Rwanda …
Female health workers drive global health: we will drive gender-transformative change.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31927-9/fulltext
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
Moreover, factors like urbanization, high population growth, and a growing middle-class population with higher disposable income are also forecasted to drive market growth. …
The countries covered in the Barrier Films Market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA), Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America. …
Leading Barrier Films manufacturers/companies operating at both regional and global levels: TEE GROUP FILMS, Winpak Ltd., ProAmpac, Fraunhofer, Huhtamaki, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation, JINDAL POLY FILMS, Mondi, PLASTISSIMO.COM, Uflex Ltd and Cosmo Films Ltd. and others …
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7 Jun 2020 ─ Technicalbob
We rise early and have to make our way to the SeaLife centre in Bangkok. It’s a straight forward enough journey as the train stops right there, our major issue is not being able to fit onto the train. Fortunately, we gave ourselves an hour to do the twenty minute journey and made it with a minute to spare. …
We are away from Bangkok for the first time since arriving in Thailand making this our first glimpse of the countryside. It reminds me of Vietnam. The scene is as picturesque as it peaceful and, as always, it’s hard to imagine anything bad ever happened here. …
We’ve driven almost three hours to reach the ‘death railway’. …
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https://technicalbob.net/2020/06/07/thailand-country-no-4-kanchanaburi/
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
Technological advantages in the field of storage is a vital factor driving the growth of video surveillance storage (VSS) market, also low cost of hard drives, rising safety concerns among public and enterprises and the hike in internet activities are the major factors among others escalating the market growth. …
The countries covered in the surveillance storage (VSS) market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America, Germany, Italy, U.K., France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Turkey, Russia, Rest of Europe in Europe, Japan, China, India, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA). …
The above data points provided are only related to the companies’ focus related to surveillance storage (VSS) market. …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/889272/video-surveillance-storage-vss-market-2020-key-development-to-be-observed-industry-states-and-outlook-across-by-2027/
28 Oct 2011 … * Floods affect auto production from Thailand to N.America
* Prices for computer hard drives rise by up to 40 percent …
“Inventory in the supply chain should be able to satisfy demand until late November to early December, but if the situation does not improve, many products will not be able to be produced because hard disk production is very concentrated in Thailand and the plants in China and Malaysia are not enough to support industry demand,” said Charles Lin, chief financial officer of Pegatron Corp . …
https://cn.reuters.com/article/thai-floods/thai-floods-batter-global-electronics-auto-supply-chains-idUSL3E7LS08A20111028
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
Moreover, factors like urbanization, high population growth, and a growing middle-class population with higher disposable income are also forecasted to drive market growth. …
The countries covered in the Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) Market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific in the Asia-Pacific, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Rest of Middle East and Africa as a part of Middle East and Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America. …
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23 Oct 2020 … TOKYO — The announcement on Oct. 20 that U.S. chipmaker Intel will sell its NAND flash memory business to South Korea’s SK Hynix for $9 billion appears to be a move toward greater consolidation in the industry. … Korean to pursue further acquisitions; US players outsource manufacturing
The NAND flash memory sector is consolidating, as it is difficult for manufacturers to make a decent profit with six players competing fiercely.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-deals/SK-Intel-NAND-deal-points-to-wider-shake-up-of-chip-sector
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
The other players in the market are, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Ontario, American Sportworks, Bad Boy/Intimidator, ACG, Inc., JH Global Services, Inc., Farasis Energy, Inc., Bintelli Electric Vehicles, Ontario Drive & Gear Ltd., and many more. …
Based on regions, the Low Speed Vehicle Market is classified into North America, Europe, Asia- Pacific, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America
… Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) …
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14 Dec 2011 … As those of you who have read this blog may have gathered…I’m a bit of a geek. I recently decided that my home computer system needed replacement so I did what any geek would do…I gathered parts over several weeks and built myself a new computer. While I was in that mode, I was monitoring the prices of various computer components, so I noticed firsthand the incredible increases in the price of computer hard drives.
Thailand also has significant hard drive component manufacturers that supply hard drive manufacturers around the world. Even if you source from different hard drive manufacturers in different regions, they all may get their components from a single supplier or region. …
https://www.kinaxis.com/en/blog/dont-put-all-your-supply-chain-eggs-in-one-basket
January 4, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
Businesses can accomplish key statistics on the market status of regional and global manufacturers along with valuable assistance which drives the business towards the growth. …
The countries covered in the Isobutene Market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa (MEA), Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America. …
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26 Oct 2020 … In recent years, India has strengthened its laws on child labor, but in the past six months — with Covid-19 taking a toll on the economy — that work has started to unravel.
Jaipur police said they were likely being taken to bangle factories to be sold as cheap labor. …
But the country’s economy has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and many have lost their jobs, leading some families to allow their children to work to bring in anything they can. …
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/24/asia/india-covid-child-trafficking-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
LONDON (Reuters) – British insurer Aviva said on Monday it had appointed Mark Versey as chief executive of its fund arm, Aviva Investors, replacing Euan Munro, who leaves after seven years to take up a role outide the company.
Versey joined the company in 2014 and is currently the chief investments officer for the unit’s 47 billion pounds ($64.31 billion) Real Assets division, which invests in infrastructure, real estate and private debt markets.
Thailand $3 Billion Air Conditioner Market, Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025 … continue to drive the air conditioner market in Thailand in the coming years. … In addition, companies are also manufacturing energy-efficient and … debut earlier this year, but the stock has fallen on hard times of late.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/aviva-investors-appoints-mark-versey-091909621.html
Amazon U.S. • The Windup Girl
Amazon U.S. • By Paolo Bacigalupi – The Windup Girl (Reissue) (2015-05-20) [Paperback]
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.
What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism’s genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of “The Calorie Man” (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and “Yellow Card Man” (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.
November 22nd, 2012 ─ dnavigator
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Jan 5, 2021 ─ CityNews Toronto
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government says it is tightening restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus as the country logged another 527 new cases.
Officials said Tuesday that foreign migrant workers accounted for 439 of the new infections, while 82 were Thais infected locally and another six were new arrivals from abroad who tested positive in quarantine centres. …
─ Vaccination drive enters new phase in U.S. as some start receiving final dose …
“We’re likely to experience the worst conditions in January that we’ve faced the entire pandemic — and that’s hard to imagine,” county public health director Barbara Ferrer said at a briefing. …
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2021/01/05/the-latest-thailand-ups-restrictions-amid-virus-outbreak/
22 Aug 2013 … mbfleming
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Western Digital hard drives being manufactured at a factory in Thailand.
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January 6, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
7.2k RPM Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Industry Market: Regional analysis includes:
⇨ Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia)
⇨ Europe (Turkey, Germany, Russia UK, Italy, France, etc.) …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/950693/global-7-2k-rpm-hard-disk-drive-hdd-market-size-2021-analytical-overview-key-players-regional-demand-trends-and-forecast-to-2027/
30 Nov 2011 … Research, Education, Networks, and the World: A Female Professor Speaks
Supply chains consisting of suppliers, manufacturers, transportation service providers, storage facilities and distributors, as well as retailers, and consumers, serve as the backbones for the provision of goods as well as services on our modern global economy. …
The computer industry is now bracing for a shortage of hard-disk drives after Thai factories were flooded.
https://annanagurney.blogspot.com/2011/11/
January 5, 2021 ─ LionLowdown
The Hard Disk Drive market report provides a detailed analysis of global market size, regional and country-level market size, segmentation market growth, market share, competitive Landscape, sales analysis, impact of domestic and global market players, value chain optimization, trade regulations, recent developments, opportunities analysis, strategic market growth analysis, product launches, area marketplace expanding, and technological innovations. …
Major Points from Table of Contents:
3 Market Size by Manufacturers
… 3.1.2 Hard Disk Drive Production Market Share by Manufacturers …
5 Hard Disk Drive Consumption by Regions
… 5.4.9 Thailand …
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21 Oct 2011 … In the market for a new hard drive? Better buy it sooner rather than later, as a global shortage will probably jack up prices on the devices soon.
The company has had to close indefinitely both factories, where it produces 60 percent of all its hard drives. Western Digital CEO Timothy Leyden told reporters in a conference call this week that they estimate capacity will be affected for several quarters. …
https://www.techinasia.com/thailand-floods-hard-drive-supply
January 6, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
The cost analysis of the Global Hardware Encryption Devices Market has been performed while keeping in view manufacturing expenses, labor cost, and raw materials and their market concentration rate, suppliers, and price trend. Other factors such as Supply chain, downstream buyers, and sourcing strategy have been assessed to provide a complete and in-depth view of the market. …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/968050/comprehensive-report-on-hardware-encryption-devices-market-2021-trends-growth-demand-opportunities-forecast-to-2027-samsung-electronics-western-digital-corp-kingston-technology-corp-cert/
31 Mar 2012 … As Thailand is geographically sloped, all the rainwater collected from the North will flow southward and into the Gulf of Thailand. …
Thailand is responsible for approximately 25% of the world’s production of hard disk drives. However, numerous factories, including Western Digital’s, that are in charge of the production of hard disk drives were flooded, leading to some industry analysts to predict future worldwide shortages of hard disk drives. …
https://geography-project-floods.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html
Jan 5, 2021 ─ ABC27
BEIJING — China’s Hebei province is enforcing stricter control measures following a further rise in coronavirus cases in the province, which is adjacent to the capital Beijing and is due to host events for next year’s Winter Olympics.
The National Health Commission on Wednesday reported 20 more cases had been detected in Hebei, bringing the province’s total to 39 since Sunday. […]
The vaccination drive enters new phase in U.S. as some start receiving final dose. …
BANGKOK — Thailand‘s government says it is tightening restrictions aimed … first spotted in communities of foreign factory and market workers just outside … hard to imagine,” county public health director Barbara Ferrer said.
https://www.abc27.com/news/health/the-latest-thailand-ups-restrictions-amid-virus-outbreak/
Western Digital to Shut Down HDD Manufacturing Facility, Increase Production of SSDs (July 19, 2018): https://www.anandtech.com
13 May 2020 ─ The Operations Room
One of the main questions I am getting these days is: What will be the impact of this crisis on the global supply chain landscape? I know people have bigger concerns around health right now, but I am not a healthcare professional and try to avoid giving advice in areas I know very little about. …
First, the notion that the global supply chain will be formed around resilience is something we have been hearing since … well… forever. We have heard it after the floods in Thailand in 2011 that caused significant disruptions to the hard drive supply chain, an essential component in any consumer electronics, and we have heard it after the earthquake in Fukushima, but firms tend to forget and have a hard time weighing risks, primarily when people believe that the previous risk was so unique. …
https://operationsroom.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/supply-chain-resilience-and-the-world-post-covid-19/
January 5, 2020 ─ Bristol Herald Courier
BEIJING — China’s Hebei province is enforcing stricter control measures following a further rise in coronavirus cases in the province, which is adjacent to the capital Beijing and is due to host events for next year’s Winter Olympics.
The vaccination drive enters new phase in U.S. as some start receiving final dose. …
BANGKOK — Thailand‘s government says it is tightening restrictions aimed at … first spotted in communities of foreign factory and market workers just outside Bangkok. … hard to imagine,” county public health director Barbara Ferrer says.
https://heraldcourier.com/news/world/the-latest-thailand-ups-restrictions-amid-virus-outbreak/article_320f1d0f-0282-5ac6-a646-ef15c3629479.html
2 Nov 2011 … Manufacturing problems could cause a worldwide laptop shortage after a severe Thailand flood. This hard drive and laptop shortage has already affected prices.
Top hard drive makers Western Digital Corp and Seagate Technologies Plc both have plants in Thailand, where flooding has killed at least 377 people since July and devastated industrial areas in the center of the country. …
https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1102/Laptop-shortage-looms-after-Thailand-flood
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 ─ The Thaiger
Thaiger team member Jett tells of his experience at a 10-day Vipassana Meditation Retreat in Phitsanulok Province in central Thailand. No talking, no phone, vegetarian meals, and 12 hours of meditation each day. Transformative experience or sheer insanity? Tim finds out the answers!
Retreat location:
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https://thethaiger.com/news/national/can-you-survive-10-days-of-no-talking-no-phone-the-vipassana-silent-meditation-retreat
15 Oct 2020 … A Republican Senate and conservative judges could limit agenda …
If former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidential election, he will face high expectations from the U.S. scientific community. …
Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago …
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/biden-presidency-could-have-remarkable-impact-science-policy-also-face-hurdles
Tue., January 5, 2021 ─ Yahoo News Canada
Fort Liard’s Acho Dene Koe First Nation is suspending a pick-up and delivery service connecting members to stores and friends in Fort Nelson, British Columbia.
The suspension takes effect immediately, the First Nation said in a news release on Tuesday afternoon, citing an increase in reported COVID-19 cases in northern B.C.
The First Nation expressed concern that a higher possibility of COVID-19 transmission now existed.
… have tried to drive a wedge between Trump and his vice-president during the … CUSTOMIZE ITA “no-spend month” sounds strict, but there are no hard-and-fast rules. … Asia Today: Thailand counts more virus cases, limits travel … workers living in dormitories and employed in fish markets and factories.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/acho-dene-koe-first-nation-004536094.html
8 Nov 2011 … Flooding in Thailand, hub for global supply chains, causes shortages in auto parts, Hi-Tech, hard disk drives. Trade data can be used to find alternate sources. …
At just one of Thailand’s inundated industrial parks, dozens of factories were forced to close, including plants operated by Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Sony, Nikon, Sanyo, and Matsushita. …
Global production of hard disk drives (HDDs) is especially concentrated in Thailand, the world’s largest producer of these essential computer components.
https://www.datamyne.com/blog/data-applications/hi-tech-brought-low-by-rising-water/
Tue., January 5, 2021 ─ Yahoo News Canada
Epidemiologist Dr. Isaac Bogoch joins The Morning Show to answer the latest coronavirus questions.
… have tried to drive a wedge between Trump and his vice-president during … BANGKOK — Thailand reported 527 new coronavirus cases, most of them … living in dormitories and employed in fish markets and factories. … is so deeply personal on so many levels that it will be hard to scrub the record clean.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-covid-19-lockdown-strategy-153716998.html
29 Oct 2012 … As the ‘factory of the world’ faces rising labour and production costs, Chinese companies are taking a closer look at Asean and Thailand. …
In the electronics and electrical products industry, Thailand is the world’s largest hard disk drive (HDD) producer. …
“Our major products in this field are hard disk drives, integrated circuits, televisions and air-conditioners. …”
https://leavefreedom.blogspot.com/2012/10/chinas-big-shift.html
Updated January 6, 2020 ─ Odessa American
BEIJING — China’s Hebei province is enforcing stricter control measures following a further rise in coronavirus cases in the province, which is adjacent to the capital Beijing and is due to host events for next year’s Winter Olympics.
Vaccination drive enters new phase in U.S. as some start receiving final dose. … BANGKOK — Thailand‘s government says it is tightening restrictions aimed at … first spotted in communities of foreign factory and market workers just … pandemic — and that’s hard to imagine,” county public health director …
https://www.oaoa.com/news/business/the-latest-moderna-says-israel-approved-its-virus-vaccine/article_cff2f6f2-d3ad-59aa-9dd2-65721c070a3a.html?mode=jqm
Friday, May 30th, 2003
Last place I drove to: Danville. Last holiday I took: Well i went to Texas for Spring break, i dont know if that counts, if not then my five days with Andre still count as a vacation to me
Most beautiful place i’ve ever been to: oh man thats hard…Thailand was nice, So was singapore, as was England, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia, Hawaii, Vancouver…I could go on forever…. …
https://ruemeridian.livejournal.com/
Tue., January 5, 2021 ─ Yahoo Movies Canada
Tanya Roberts, who co-starred on “That ’70s Show” and “Charlie’s Angels,” died on Monday, after early, inaccurate death report. She was 65.
… he said, adding that boosting snow is hard on the aging equipment. … The vaccination drive enters new phase in U.S. as some start receiving final dose … ___BANGKOK — Thailand‘s government says it is tightening … first spotted in communities of foreign factory and market workers just outside Bangkok …
https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/70s-show-actress-tanya-roberts-154522325.html
November 4, 2011
Thailand Hard Drive factories are Flooded! Due to severe flooding in Thailand, many computer manufacturers are expecting to be out of hard drives within 2 weeks and have severe shortages for the next 6 months. As a result, Thailand hard drive prices have gone up 200% – 300% in the… …
https://computervaletpdx.com/tag/shortage/
Jan 5, 2021 ─ 570 News
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government says it is tightening restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus as the country logged another 527 new cases.
Officials said Tuesday that foreign migrant workers accounted for 439 of the new infections, while 82 were Thais infected locally and another six were new arrivals from abroad who tested positive in quarantine centres. …
After almost no locally transmitted infections for almost half a year, Thailand in recent weeks has seen a viral resurgence first spotted in communities of foreign factory and market workers just outside Bangkok. …
Vaccination drive enters new phase in U.S. as some start receiving final dose. …
“We’re likely to experience the worst conditions in January that we’ve faced the entire pandemic — and that’s hard to imagine,” county public health director Barbara Ferrer said at a briefing. …
https://www.570news.com/2021/01/05/the-latest-thailand-ups-restrictions-amid-virus-outbreak/
31 Oct 2006 … HDD, Mobile Devices, Anything
Under a proposal submitted to the Board of Investment (BoI), Western Digital plans to invest 35.85 billion Thai baht (US$962M at 37.26 baht to the dollar) to expand its hard disk drive business in Thailand over the next eight years. This proposal includes a new factory at Bang Pa-in in Ayutthaya to manufacture products that would generate more than 150 billion baht per year (US$4 billion) in exports, according to Satit Chanjavanakul, the BoI secretary-general. …
https://gizmomo.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
Jan 8, 2021 ─ BNN
MSCI Inc. and S&P Dow Jones Indices will remove the companies from benchmark indexes …
China condemned the former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co. to death on charges of malfeasance, one of the most severe sentences to stem from President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive
China sentenced Hu Huaibang, a former chairman of the nation’s biggest policy bank, to life imprisonment on charges of corruption …
Thailand hopes to avoid a full national lockdown to stem a wave of infections that began in mid-December and has spread to more than 50 of 77 provinces. …
As the world’s pile of negative-yielding debt rose to a record $18 trillion in December, authorities in Taiwan were working hard to keep the government’s bond yield above zero.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/blue-wave-result-spur-stock-rally-as-u-s-yields-soar-em-review-1.1545544
As mentioned in our last two blog posts, the US-China trade wars are changing the landscape for manufacturers. In view of rising costs many large companies have been seeking alternatives to China for placing their manufacturing operations.
Thailand is also the world’s second-largest producer of hard disk drives (HDDs). Thailand exported $215 billion worth of goods in 2017.
Pros
○ Infrastructure quality is of similar quality to China, particularly in regards to ease of arranging international shipments and the timeliness of shipments. …
https://visualfactories.com/blog/manufacturing-in-china-yes-or-no/
Jan 6, 2021 ─ Farming Sector
Not to mention, the data is collected only from the dependable sources such as journals, newspapers, company websites and annual reports of the companies on which Printing Inks industry can rely confidently. …
The countries covered in the Printing Inks Market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico in North America, Germany, France, U.K., Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Rest of Europe in Europe, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific (APAC) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Rest of Middle East and Africa (MEA) as a part of Middle East and Africa(MEA), Brazil, Argentina and Rest of South America as part of South America. …
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https://farmingsector.co.uk/uncategorized/955746/printing-inks-market-2021-to-drive-the-highest-growth-2026-top-companies-dic-corporation-toyo-ink-sc-holdings-co-sakata-inx/
27 Apr 2012 … A blog about UK defence issues which tries to put a positive and fresh look at many current matters impacting UK and wider defence.
It’s likely that few people in the UK knew that the IT industry was reliant on factories in Thailand to make hard drives until the floods damaged production and prices soared. Similarly the automobile industry is struggling after a fire in a factory in Germany shut down production of resin, reducing the ability to make cars globally. …
https://thinpinstripedline.blogspot.com/2012/04/are-we-sea-blind-or-merely-suffering.html
Jan 06, 2021 ─ CBC.ca
Quebec is imposing a four-week curfew starting Saturday and extending other restrictions, the premier announced Wednesday, in an effort to curb rising COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations in the hard-hit province.
Hard-hit Brampton to open first COVID-19 isolation sites, raising questions about why it took so long …
In the Asia-Pacific region, authorities in Thailand say they plan to expand coronavirus testing to thousands of factories in a province near Bangkok as they reported 365 new cases around the country and one new death. …
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused syringe makers of pushing up their prices after the government failed to buy hundreds of millions of syringes via auction for its vaccination drive, leading it to requisition surplus supplies. …
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/coronavirus-omnibus-jan-6-1.5862877
Thailand floods to lead to hard drive shortages for months (October 23, 2011) https://www.zdnet.com
20 Nov 2020 ─ Spectrum
The 2020 documentary “Blackpink: Light Up the Sky” has been released on Netflix expressing Blackpink’s, the Korean girl group’s, rise to fame. Directed by Caroline Suh, Blackpink members share their stories of their hard-fought battles, rigorous training and loneliness that comes with being a global star. The film heavily emphasizes the band as individuals, revealing their drive and goals to achieve their dreams of debuting and more. …
The four member girl group – Lalisa Manoban, Jennie Kim, Rose and Jisoo – show the foundations of kpop, who have both lived and shaped it. The girls’ come from Thailand, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia. Suh exposes many of the shortcomings of being in kpop, along with its revolutionary global popular music. …
https://hwspectrum.com/2020/11/20/blackpink-light-up-the-sky-review-vulnerability-and-fame/
January 6, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
External Controller-Based Disk Storage Industry Market: Regional analysis includes:
⇨ Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia)
⇨ Europe (Turkey, Germany, Russia UK, Italy, France, etc.) …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/950565/global-external-controller-based-disk-storage-market-size-2021-analytical-overview-key-players-regional-demand-trends-and-forecast-to-2027/
1 Dec 2011 … Western Digital, one of the world’s biggest storage companies, said today that it has resumed hard drive production in Thailand as flood waters recede in that country. But shortages will likely still happen in the current and future quarters.
The Irvine, Calif.-based company said in a statement today that the restoration of the company’s factories in Thailand had progressed better than expected and that production has resumed this week. […]
https://venturebeat.com/2011/12/01/wd-resumes-hard-drive-production-after-thailand-floods/
January 7, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
MRFR enlisted these companies for their latest report on the global Thermal Interface Materials (TIM) market. …
Components like CPUs, chipsets, graphics cards, and hard disk drives are prone to damage due to overheating, which can be curbed with the use of Thermal Interface Materials (TIM). …
The APAC market has substantial growth possibilities due to the increased participation from countries like China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, India, and others.
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/1004596/thermal-interface-materials-tim-market-competitor-strategy-industry-trends-forecast-to-2023/
15 May 2018 … Australia’s first Kenyan-born senator could be booted from the Parliament just months after she was recruited by the Liberals.
Lucy Gichuhi defected from Family First to the Liberal Party in February, making the shock announcement alongside Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who described her as an “inspiration” and a “true Australian success story”.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-15/lucy-gichuhis-political-career-facing-abrupt-end/9762808
January 9, 2020 ─ The Record (New Westminster)
BEIJING — Chinese authorities are asking residents in two cities south of Beijing to stay home for seven days as they try to stamp out a coronavirus outbreak in which more than 300 people have tested positive in the past week.
… and launched one of the earliest and fastest vaccination drives in the world. … California is particularly hard hit, with skyrocketing deaths and … BANGKOK — Thailand is extending a state of emergency by another month until Feb. … Myanmar who were employed in seafood markets and factories in a …
https://www.newwestrecord.ca/coronavirus-covid-19-national-news/the-latest-japan-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tokyo-area-3240309
5 Dec 2011 … Flooding in Thailand has caused a worldwide shortage in hard drives as manufacturers of platter based hard drives and hard drives components have gone underwater. Hard drive motor supplier Nidec (whom supply 100% of drive motors to companies such as Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital) have many factories that are offline and inaccessible, straining the supply. Consequently, hard drive prices have risen dramatically and products are seeing longer wait times. 14,000 factories in the region have shut down, suspending work and leaving 600,000 people without a job. …
https://www.macstories.net/news/thailand-flooding-affects-imac-shipments-western-digital-resuming-hard-drive-production/
Thu., January 7, 2021 ─ Yahoo News Canada
TORONTO — A long-term care home in Toronto hit 73 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday after two more residents succumbed to the virus.
Tendercare Living Centre in the city’s east end now has one of the worst records in the province.
New research suggests that emoji use can drive engagement and make content more viral. … After taking a hard hit in the spring, with hundreds more businesses … Thailand‘s government has tightened travel restrictions in parts of the … Myanmar who were employed in seafood markets and factories in a …
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/covid-19-deaths-toronto-long-200417565.html
3 Dec 2020 … European waste and recycling firm says plant will have 30,000 metric tons of LDEP reprocessing capacity.
Suez describes its Circular Polymer Plant as one of Thailand‘s largest LDPE recycling plants and says it will operate “in the highest level of compliance.” People and equipment at the plant will “qualify, characterize, measure and formulate new recycled plastics to fit customer’s specific needs.” …
https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/article/suez-thailand-ldpe-plastics-recycling-facility/
Sep 21, 2020 ─ Forbes
With large capacity, durability and speed, these hard drives will make storing your data that much easier.
Buying an external hard drive is never an easy task, mostly because there are a crazy number of models on the market. …
While some of the talk from external drive manufacturers is just hype, there are a few that I trust to not fail, that really stand out as the best external hard drives for Mac computers: …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2020/09/21/best-external-hard-drives-2020-for-mac-computers/
Amazon U.S. • Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 7): Injury Prevention and Environmental Health
The substantial burden of death and disability that results from interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change, and inadequate water and sanitation falls disproportionally on low- and middle-income countries. Injury Prevention and Environmental Health addresses the risk factors and presents updated data on the burden, as well as economic analyses of platforms and packages for delivering cost-effective and feasible interventions in these settings.
The volume’s contributors demonstrate that implementation of a range of prevention strategies-presented in an essential package of interventions and policies-could achieve a convergence in death and disability rates that would avert more than 7.5 million deaths a year.
- 05-06 декабря 2020 года, полеты на Северке… [December 05-06, 2020, flights to Severka …]
Dec. 11th, 2020 ─ igor113
Чтобы успешно провести предстоящие выходные, надо завершить описание прошлых выходных:-))) А они были у нас весьма бурными….. В субботу и воскресенье мы провели по несколько полетов на различной технике… Но обо всем по порядку и подробнее..
Музей техники Вадима Задорожного и фонд “Крылатая память Победы.
Северка и все около нее ч.2 …
To successfully spend the coming weekend, we need to complete the description of the last weekend :-))) And they were very stormy with us … .. On Saturday and Sunday we spent several flights on various equipment … But let’s talk about everything in order and in more detail ..
Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology and the Winged Memory of Victory Foundation.
Severka and everything around it part 2 …
naval aircraft factory
naval aviation museum …
thailand
thomas-morse s-4c …
https://igor113.livejournal.com/1457268.html
January 6, 2021 ─ Factory Gate
These connectors are helpful in protection of optic fiber which drives the market for connector market worldwide. …
The countries covered in fiber optic connector in telecom market report are U.S., Canada and Mexico, Germany, U.K., France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, Turkey, Rest of Europe, Japan, China, India, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Rest of Asia-Pacific, Brazil, Argentina, Rest of South America, South Africa, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt and Rest of Middle East and Africa. …
The above data points provided are only related to the companies’ focus related to global fiber optic connector in telecom market. …
Table of Content
… 12.2.2 RADIATION HARD SINGLEMODE MODELS …
https://factorygate.co.uk/uncategorized/973911/fiber-optic-connector-in-telecom-market-2020-2027-impact-of-covid-19-with-focusing-key-players-te-connectivity-corningorporated-molex-amphenol-corporation-afl/
27 Jan 2012 … Policyholders adversely impacted by the 2011 Thailand floods should focus on their insurance coverage promptly so that no rights or remedies are potentially compromised. …
For example, many of the factories that make hard disk drives have been flooded, leading some industry analysts to predict future worldwide shortages of hard disk drives. The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2011) (“Thailand Flooding Cripples Hard–Drive Suppliers”). …
https://www.lawjournalnewsletters.com/sites/lawjournalnewsletters/2012/01/27/insurance-coverage-for-the-2011-thailand-floods/
Feb 25, 2020 ─ Reuters
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand‘s manufacturing production index (MPI) contracted for a ninth straight month in January, down 4.59% from a year earlier, on lower production of cars, sugar and palm oil, the industry ministry said on Wednesday. …
But production of hard disk drives rose 13.5% last month year on year and air conditioners jumped nearly 22%. …
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-economy-output/thai-january-factory-output-falls-4-6-year-on-year-down-for-ninth-month-idUKKCN20K0EN
8 Nov 2011 … Thailand is 20 percent underwater , and makes the most hard drives in the world after China:
There may be a shortage of hard drives for the big Christmas retail season because of the catastrophic floods in Thailand. …
“… Pollution from heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cancer-causing cadmium is often blamed for poisoning entire villages and crop-growing land in China as factory bosses flout environmental laws and farmers use toxic fertilizers.” …
https://hipcrime.blogspot.com/2011/11/earth-bites-back.html
Updated January 10, 2021 ─ Bloomberg
⦿ MSCI Inc. and S&P Dow Jones Indices will remove the companies from benchmark indexes …
⦿ China condemned the former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co. to death on charges of malfeasance, one of the most severe sentences to stem from President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive
⦿ China sentenced Hu Huaibang, a former chairman of the nation’s biggest policy bank, to life imprisonment on charges of corruption …
⦿ Thailand hopes to avoid a full national lockdown to stem a wave of infections that began in mid-December and has spread to more than 50 of 77 provinces. …
⦿ As the world’s pile of negative-yielding debt rose to a record $18 trillion in December, authorities in Taiwan were working hard to keep the government’s bond yield above zero. …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/blue-wave-result-spur-stock-rally-as-u-s-yields-soar-em-review
2 Dec 2011 … Computer hard drive maker Western Digital (NYSE:WDC), the worst hit hard drive manufacturer by Thai floods, said it has resumed partial production at its Thailand operations. … Seagate’s Thai plants are largely unaffected by the floods, but production has been hit as key suppliers have seen their operations flooded.
Last week, Western Digital secured conditional approval from the European Union’s competition regulator to purchase Hitachi’s HDD business for $4.3 billion, after it agreed to sell several production operations. …
https://ca.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/amp/news/81902
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 ─ ACROFAN USA
BANGKOK, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Thailand‘s high-tech Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) will this year become the first part of Southeast Asia to offer 5G telecommunications connectivity as it targets becoming the region’s gateway and digital innovation hub, EEC Secretary General Kanit Sangsubhan said.
Map of Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor, or EEC, showing the main infrastructure projects under development which will further boost the area’s connectivity. …
“The signal is already there and we are now working with companies and local residents to help offer them the best solution for their individual needs.” …
Covering three provinces with a total population of three million, the EEC is already home to the world’s 11th largest auto exporting industry, leading global suppliers of hard disc drives and home appliances, a major petrochemical industry and the international tourist resort of Pattaya. …
https://us.acrofan.com/detail.php?number=403915
17 May 2012 … Thailand is home to many industrial factories that provide a great amount of supplies to the world including hard disk drives and automobiles. Many companies have faced a downturn due to this disaster in Thailand.
The roads are flooded with two meters of water due to heavy rains. The people of Thailand must travel through waist-high water levels.
https://rinxwatches.blogspot.com/2012/
11 January 2021 ─ Mongabay.com
In 2018, community members in Ban Boon Rueang, in Thailand‘s northern Chiang Rai province, successfully campaigned against plans to convert a wetland forest into a special economic zone. …
Srongpol Chantharueang remembers his parents telling him as a boy always to protect the local wetland forest when he grew up. They told him that the ecosystem would be important for his life and that of his community. “I didn’t understand what they meant at the time,” he told Mongabay via a video call in December 2020. […]
“We try to raise the issue among local people and petition decision-makers in China, but it is very hard to have our voices heard,” Teerapong said. …
Through BRWFCG, the Boon Rueang community has an active voice in such regional advocacy platforms and continues its drive to sustain a healthy wetland forest. …
Over the years, the community has repeatedly fought off attempts to convert the wetland for other purposes, such as for factories and plantations.
https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/award-winning-thai-community-continues-the-fight-to-save-its-wetland-forest/
Why is THAILAND the WORLD LEADER in HDD manufacturing? (18 Dec 2019) https://www.youtube.com
16 Feb 2020 ─ aniltikotekar4sme.com
The People’s Bank of China could further cut the proportion of deposits banks must hold as reserves.
The broad policy direction for many of the world’s central banks and governments now hinges on one question: how will the Chinese government respond to the economic shock caused by the coronavirus?
The Communist Party’s elite Politburo has urged the nation to meet its economic targets this year, an imperative that could shake the government’s recent reluctance to fire up large-scale stimulus. …
Much depends on which levers China pulls. Near-term options include further cuts to central bank funding rates and more tax relief to hard-hit sectors as well as flush liquidity for the financial system. The emphasis for now remains on not over-doing it, though there are signs the resolve is softening. …
Analysis by Tom Orlik at Bloomberg Economics shows that Australia, South Korea, Japan Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand are among the most exposed in the region while Brazil, Germany and South Africa are high up the list of global vulnerability. …
EconomyNews of InterestExport-Import Business/News
https://aniltikotekar4sme.com/2020/02/17/coronavirus-chinas-response-to-economic-shock-to-decide-world-economys-course-of-action-the-financial-express/
Jan 5, 2021 ─ 680 News
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government says it is tightening restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus as the country logged another 527 new cases.
Officials said Tuesday that foreign migrant workers accounted for 439 of the new infections, while 82 were Thais infected locally and another six were new arrivals from abroad who tested positive in quarantine centres. …
Vaccination drive enters new phase in U.S. as some start receiving final dose …
“We’re likely to experience the worst conditions in January that we’ve faced the entire pandemic — and that’s hard to imagine,” county public health director Barbara Ferrer said at a briefing. …
https://www.680news.com/2021/01/05/the-latest-thailand-ups-restrictions-amid-virus-outbreak/
28 Oct 2011 … Post from Chris Mellor (thank you) over at El Reg on the flooded Disk-Factories from WD in Thailand.
There is an eerie calm inside Western Digital’s flooded hard disk drive plant near Bangkok. It has been transformed into a silent lake.
Photo images sent to us and posted on Facebook show the plant rising out of a sea of floodwater. …
https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/inside-wds-flooded-thai-factory/
Monday, January 11, 2021 ─ FreightWaves
1987: After much consideration about acquiring its own ships to handle soaring Asia-to-America shoe traffic, Nike is establishing a network of consolidators throughout Asia.
Thailand logged 10 to 12% of the firm’s traffic and the People’s Republic of China accounted for 5 to 7%. …
Most of the overseas shoe and apparel manufacturing for Nike occurs in Asia. …
As a result, the company got stuck with some high, hard-to-move inventories. …
Brown said Nike has managed to cut its inventory of footwear by more than 50% during the past two years, has “inched up” prices of new products and had a phenomenally successful sales drive last fiscal year on one particular shoe line.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-flashback-nike-dont-put-too-many-shoes-in-one-basket
19 Apr 2011 … The top rated number one Thailand blog about real village life with amazing photos of unseen Thailand.
Most live in slums near the factories where they work, with others from the same region of the country. …
We’ve sold up in Phuket, sadly the never ending circle of corruption and over charging for everything except good service got the better of us over the past 6 months, add a nice German gentleman who was happy to pay a stupid price for our house and land and it was not a hard decision. …
As the truth often comes out the clearest the more boredom drives you to the keyboards.
https://villagefarang.blogspot.com/2011/04/boredom-and-living-in-thai-village.html
January 11, 2021 ─ InsideClimate News
This report was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket, War & Peace, and weed. Sometimes reading, sometimes just lying on her back looking up through the green, Lydick felt like she could be anywhere. Thailand, maybe, or Malaysia. […]
Four punishing hours later, they finally got the plants in, and Lydick taught Velasco how to keep the young bamboo fertilized and irrigated. …
On Wednesday mornings, Georgia bamboo farmer Daphne Lewis, who is 79, drives four miles to a neighbor’s exotic animal ranch to fill her weathered van with llama poop. …
“The hard-core bamboo people know about ecological impact. …”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11012021/the-radical-case-for-growing-huge-swaths-bamboo-in-north-america/
28 Oct 2011 … Manufacturers of car parts and computer hard drives are the worst hit in Thailand, and face a bleak key holiday selling season due to massive floods, which have shut down production.
Japanese car makers that had just started to recover from the March earthquake and tsunami that disrupted their supply chains are now facing shortages of key parts made in Thailand, a key manufacturing base in Southeast Asia. …
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/10/28/221972.htm
- COVID-19 : bilan du 5 janvier [COVID-19: report of January 5]
January 5, 2021 ─ Yahoo News Canada
COVID-19. Les plus récentes données sur l’évolution de la COVID-19, au Québec, font état de 2 508 nouveaux cas pour le 4 janvier, pour un nombre total de 215 358 personnes infectées. Parmi celles-ci, 182 602 sont rétablies. Elles font également état de 62 nouveaux décès, pour un total de 8 441. De ces 62 décès, 17 sont survenus dans les 24 dernières heures, 41 entre le 29 décembre et le 3 janvier, 3 avant le 29 décembre et 1 décès à une date inconnue.
COVID-19. The most recent data on the evolution of COVID-19 in Quebec show 2,508 new cases for January 4, for a total number of 215,358 people infected. Of these, 182,602 have been restored. They also report 62 new deaths, for a total of 8,441. Of these 62 deaths, 17 occurred in the last 24 hours, 41 between December 29 and January 3, 3 before December 29 and 1 death at a time. date unknown.
BANGKOK — Thailand reported 527 new coronavirus cases, most of … living in dormitories and employed in fish markets and factories. … Just before 9 a.m. CST, Moose Jaw police said Thatcher Drive NW … FURTHER CONSIDERS IN SEED GERMINATIONSome seeds have a hard coating which must be …
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/covid-19-bilan-du-5-163727667.html
23 Sep 2020 … A container shortage in India is causing long delays for exporters, especially on US trades.
Earlier this month, The Loadstar reported the operational impact from the creeping equipment shortage in Asia – dominant headhaul traffic has caused empties to pile-up at ports in the US and Australia, for example, prompting carriers to plead for the swift return of used import boxes.
“Exporters are finding it hard to execute orders due to a lack of government support in the form of stimulus or financial aid. They’re also at the mercy of bankers, who aren’t supportive in the current market situation,” Mr Pandit claimed. …
https://theloadstar.com/container-shortage-crisis-spreads-to-india-delaying-exports/
Nov 2, 2020 ─ pymnts.com
Accelerating demand for durable goods like cars and appliances is kicking up manufacturing at Asian and European factories despite rising cases of COVID-19.
India is leading the increase in manufacturing, posting its biggest hike in activity in a single month for more than 10 years. Factories in Thailand and South Korea have also reported a spike in activity for the first month this year. …
https://www.pymnts.com/economy/2020/increased-consumer-demand-for-durable-goods-fires-up-factories/
- Проблема со звуком на старой Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic в Windows 10 [Sound issue on old Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic on Windows 10]
2018-12-23 ─ elchupanibrei
Давным давно для замены унылого встроенного звука купил БУ Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic . Построен на 8-и канальном 24-bit ЦАП Cirrus Logic CS4382 , 4-х канальном 24-bit АЦП Wolfson WM8775 и аппратном DSP процессоре Creative 20K1 . Особенно нравится их Crystalizer при работе с mp3 – “восстановление частей звука, которые были потеряны во время сжатия”. …
A long time ago I bought a Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic to replace the dull built-in sound. Built on 8-channel 24-bit DAC Cirrus Logic CS4382, 4-channel 24-bit ADC Wolfson WM8775 and hardware DSP Creative 20K1 processor. I especially like their Crystalizer when working with mp3 – “restoring parts of the sound that were lost during compression”. …
UDP: описание проблемы [UDP: problem description] – “X-Fi is sharing memory access with high-end graphics and/or hard drives. We have found that with certain high-end systems and configurations, Sound Blaster X-Fi is being held off from receiving data from the PCI bus for significant periods of time, in some cases for close to two-thirds of a millisecond. …
https://elchupanibrei.livejournal.com/45220.html
Oct 6, 2020 ─ Inkstone
China became the world’s manufacturing hub thanks to cheap labor and abundant resources. But now that China is becoming more expensive, businesses are looking elsewhere, particularly to Southeast Asia.
German automaker Volkswagen opened its first Chinese factory in 1984 in Shanghai. …
Vietnam and Malaysia will benefit the most from the US-China trade war, particularly in low-end manufacturing, while India, Indonesia and Thailand have seen limited benefits from export-oriented information and technology manufacturing. …
While Toyota has chosen to stay and open more car plants in China, other companies, such as Hoya will move hard–drive parts production to Vietnam and Laos, while Sumitomo Rubber Industries is looking to Malaysia. …
https://www.inkstonenews.com/business/inkstone-explains-how-did-china-become-factory-world/article/3103429
13 Oct 2011 … Irvine, Calif. – Seagate has joined Western Digital in shutting down its hard disk factories in flood-ravaged Thailand.
This will greatly constrain hard–drive availability for the current quarter, the companies reported. Seagate said today that while its facilities are not directly impacted by the flooding and its employees can get to work, the supply chain has been disrupted within that country, halting production. […] …
https://www.twice.com/news/thai-flooding-shutters-hdd-plants-12641
January 11, 2010 ─ openPR
The in depth research report on Thrombocytopenia Market added to its huge repository by DBMR provides imprehensive and all aspects of market research. The market insights of this market report helps with the successful launch of new product. The report efficiently gathers, analyzes and interprets information about a market, about a product or service to be offered for sale in that market. …
The following manufacturers are covered in this report: …
This will at last increase the return rate and drive the competitive edge within. …
The report offers an exhaustive assessment of different country-wise Thrombocytopenia markets such as the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Germany, U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Turkey and rest of Europe, Japan, China, India, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and rest of Asia-Pacific, Brazil, Argentina and rest of South America, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Israel, Egypt and rest of Middle East and Africa. …
Data Bridge adepts in creating satisfied clients who reckon upon our services and rely on our hard work with certitude.
https://www.openpr.com/news/2223451/thrombocytopenia-market-growth-rate-and-recent-trends-by-top
6 Mar 2020 … Suppliers of garlic and ginger yet to see adverse affects from coronavirus, but JDM Food Group warn of shortages later in March
“Only the technically advanced factories in China were allowed to ship around 14th/21st February, although most are now getting back to normal.
“Our Chinese suppliers have taken exceptional measures to educate their staff. …”
http://www.fruitnet.com/fpj/article/181093/coronavirus-some-delays-to-garlic-and-ginger
January 12, 2021 ─ ExtremeTech
The great semiconductor shortage of 2020-2021 has hit the automotive industry, slowing vehicle shipments as companies jostle for hardware. …
According to multiple automotive manufacturers, the general manufacturing problems hitting the industry are now meaningfully slowing vehicle production. …
The situation in 2020 is the macro-scale, industry-wide version of what happened to the hard drive industry during the Thailand floods nearly a decade ago.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/319049-the-semiconductor-shortage-has-come-for-the-auto-industry
8 Feb 2012 … Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, business, entertainment and technology.
What tech manufacturers and suppliers have been saying about the impact from heavy flooding in Thailand:
Oct. 12, 2011: Seagate Technology PLC, which makes hard drives, says its factories in Thailand have been operational, but it may have difficulty making hard drives because of constraints in getting parts. …
https://www.salon.com/2012/02/07/thai_flooding_impact_on_tech_companies_suppliers_10/
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 ─ The Business Times
DESPITE ongoing supply-chain shifts into South-east Asia, the Asean economies that have been key beneficiaries will still be hard-pressed to compete with mainland China.
That’s as Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam remain focused on low to mid-value-added segments, according to a new report from ANZ on Wednesday. …
And Thailand has started to strategically move away from low-margin computer components, but is still the world’s second-largest hard disk drive exporter, after China.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/asean-business/asean-electronics-companies-still-lag-china-in-climbing-global-value-chain-report
23 Feb 2012 … Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — During 10 turbulent years in Thailand, Kittiratt Na-Ranong tackled jobs ranging from president of the stock exchange to manager of the national soccer team, an underperforming outfit nicknamed the War Elephants. …
As deputy prime minister and finance minister, Kittiratt says, his task is to convince investors that the government can build defenses to prevent the recurrence of floods that last year inundated thousands of factories critical to global supply chains as well as a swath of the paddies that supply 29 percent of international rice shipments. …
And yet Thailand has developed such successful electronics and auto industries that it now produces from 35 to 40 percent of all computer hard disk drives and, in 2010, built more light trucks than Japan. …
https://yourviet.blogspot.com/2012/02/thailand-thailand-proving-best-after.html
January 13, 2021 ─ FutureIoT
Thailand‘s high-tech Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), established in May 2018, is the cornerstone for the country’s Industry 4.0 vision to become a fully developed nation by 2035.
The 13,000sqkm EEC stretches south and east of Bangkok and covers three provinces with a total population of three million. It aims to be the gateway to Southeast Asia (SEA) and a global digital innovation hub.
Already, the special economic zone is home to the world’s 11th largest auto exporting industry, leading global suppliers of hard disc drives and home appliances, a major petrochemical industry and the international tourist resort of Pattaya.
Under the Thailand 4.0 plan, automakers and their supply chains are transitioning to electric vehicle production, the electronics sector is upscaling and petrochemical manufacturers are increasingly adopting less polluting renewable biotechnologies as Thailand embraces the so-called bio-circular-green economy. […]
https://futureiot.tech/thailands-eec-on-track-with-digital-innovation-hub-goal/
25 Jun 2020 ─ Evolution of a small-town Catholic girl
To: Patrick
Subject: Catch up time
Here goes:
You’re right that a woman’s shaved pube and a little girl’s pube usually don’t look alike, but a woman’s pube is not naturally bare, whereas a girl’s is. This isn’t much in itself, but given that there seem to be a lot of males out there who are into little girls, anything that mimics girls (or has girls mimicking adult women) I find distasteful. I feel this more so in Thailand, where it seems 9 out of 10 foreign men here are into young girls, prostitution, wives of servitude, and/or anorexic Barbies. …
Our current office computer configuration: Pentium, 133MHz, Win95, 32MB RAM, 1.19G hard drive, 8X CD-ROM, 13″ VGA monitor, 115K modem. The new CPU was about $50; the next step up – or so I was told – was $250…although for what speed, I don’t know. …
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https://bogini.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/sat-24-jun-2000-2122/
Tue., January 12, 2021 ─ Yahoo Canada Finance
Stocks shook off a midday slide and ended with modest gains Tuesday, leaving the major indexes close to their recent all-time highs.
Small-company stocks continued to outpace the rest of the market by a wide margin, a sign that investors are becoming more optimistic about an economic rebound.
Treasury yields kept marching higher as investors anticipate that the economy will pull out of its slump and rebound later this year. …
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies gained 36.95 points, or 1.8%, to 2,127.96, a record high. …
… worked shorter hours “won’t taste the happiness and rewards of hard work. … that forms part of a U.K. government drive to promote 5G technology. … India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand.
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/major-us-stock-indexes-fared-220138343.html
18 Oct 2011 … Western Digital said its primary manufacturing facility in Thailand was flooded over the weekend, with its secondary site also at risk, raising the possibility of a global shortage of hard disk drives.
The floods in Thailand, the second largest exporter of hard disk drives after China, could potentially lead to a shortage of HDD supplies during the current quarter that may last into the first quarter of 2012, said research firm IHS iSuppli on Monday. …
The Japanese company has extended closure of its semiconductor and storage devices factories in Thailand, with a review expected later on Tuesday. …
https://www.macworld.com/article/1163088/western_digital_extends_suspension_of_operations_in_thailand.html
January 13, 2021 ─ Chiang Rai Times
Chiang Rai Times l CTN News is a free news portal delivers latest breaking news and top stories updates in Thailand, Asia Pacific and across the World
Regional News · Chiang Rai News · Northen Thailand · Southern Thailand …
CTN News – For communities living along the Mekong, unusual water fluctuations in the Mekong River are not newits happening for a decadeat least 276 species, including 87 types of fish and several dozen edible plants. …
“We try to raise the issue among local people and petition decision-makers in China, but it is very hard to have our voices heard,” Teerapong said. … Through BRWFCG, the Boon Rueang community has an active voice in such regional advocacy platforms and continues its drive to sustain a healthy wetland forest.
https://www.chiangraitimes.com/featured/mekong-river-being-dammed-with-uncertainty-by-china-and-laos/
23 Nov 2016 … A blog by documentary photojournalist & travel photographer Jack Kurtz about photography & photojournalism.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of rice in Thailand. …
Get out of Bangkok and into the countryside and you’ll drive through kilometers and kilometers of rice fields. …
A man works in his home factory that makes Thai spirit houses out of teak wood.
https://jackkurtzphotography.blogspot.com/2016_11_01_archive.html
January 4, 2021 ─ FOX 28 Spokane
BANGKOK — Thailand‘s government says it is tightening restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus as the country logged another 527 new cases.
Officials said Tuesday that foreign migrant workers accounted for 439 of the new infections, while 82 were Thais infected locally and another six were new arrivals from abroad who tested positive in quarantine centers. …
After almost no locally transmitted infections for almost half a year, Thailand in recent weeks has seen a viral resurgence first spotted in communities of foreign factory and market workers just outside Bangkok …
Vaccination drive enters new phase in U.S. as some start receiving final dose … “We’re likely to experience the worst conditions in January that we’ve faced the entire pandemic — and that’s hard to imagine,” county public health director Barbara Ferrer said at a briefing. …
https://fox28spokane.com/the-latest-thailand-ups-restrictions-amid-virus-outbreak/
15 Apr 2020 … What will it take to reverse a decades-long shift to global supply chains?
Consequently, manufacturers have turned to specialists and subcontractors who narrowly focus on just one area — and even those specialists have to rely on many others. …
The memory chips are made predominantly by three global specialists in their multi-billion-dollar fabs, and the hard drives by two firms with factories in Thailand, Malaysia, and China.
https://hbr.org/2020/04/bringing-manufacturing-back-to-the-u-s-is-easier-said-than-done
Thursday, January 14, 2021 ─ The Thaiger
While department stores have been a familiar destination for Thai people for many decades, CBRE has witnessed a decline in popularity and stunted growth, particularly in 2020 when Covid-19 adversely impacted the sector.
CBRE Research has seen domestic players pushing hard to drive sales growth via numerous promotions, marketing campaigns and activities and collaboration with credit card companies during seasonal sales. …
https://thethaiger.com/news/business/future-of-thai-department-stores-is-being-redefined
27 Oct 2011 … Your one-stop financial blog in Malaysia.
Finance Malaysia would like to offer condolences to Thailand for its massive damage caused by floods. …
How serious is it?
First, the industrial parks in Ayutthaya provinces where houses many factories of multi-national companies are heavily impacted by floods. …
The most affected companies is from Japan, dealing in automobiles, digital camera and hard disk drive businesses.
https://financemalaysia.blogspot.com/2011/10/will-thailand-flooding-with-debts-after.html
Updated Jan 14, 2021 ─ TechnoCodex
The confiscated Two Moon cigarette packs did not carry information required by law such as country destination, details of manufacturer and tax stamps as proof of payment. Mastercases in the background are unmarked also contrary to requirements by law that the boxes must bear the cigarette brand name.
MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is worried that it may find it hard to prove the guilt of a suspected illicit trader because of an order issued by the Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) for it to return fake cigarettes it had seized in a raid, according to a statement issued on Wednesday. […]
https://technocodex.com/court-order-worries-bir-about-its-case-vs-suspected-trader-of-fake-cigarettes/
Seagate Hard drive Manufacturing Process.
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