WD Resumes Hard Drive Production This Week in Thailand
Western Digital today offered an update on the progress to date of its operations recovery effort in Thailand. The company has managed to re-start production of hard drives this week in one of its buildings in Bang Pa-in (BPI), Thailand, one week ahead of internal schedules. This facility had been submerged in some six feet of water since October 15, the estate was pumped dry on November 17, main power was restored on November 26 and production restarted November 30. Even though production at the plant has started again it will not be running at 100% and will be producing less drives than the industry will need. WD believes that significant industry supply constraints will continue in the March quarter and beyond. This means that hard drive prices won’t be falling today, but the end is in sight.
“The passion, perseverance, ingenuity and execution exhibited by the WD team has been extraordinary and enabled us to make substantial progress in partially restoring our operations in Thailand, well in advance of our earliest expectations when the floods hit,” said John Coyne, president and chief executive officer of WD. “Much work remains to be done but we couldn’t be more pleased with the effort and results thus far, including tremendous support from our supply partners and strategic customers.”
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