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Wed, Nov 06, 2024
SpaceX asks Taiwanese firms to move
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) asked Taiwanese suppliers to transfer manufacturing out of Taiwan, leading to some relocating portions of their supply chain, according to sources employed by and close to the equipment makers and corporate documents.
A source at a company that is one of the numerous subcontractors that provide components for SpaceX’s Starlink satellite Internet products said that SpaceX asked their manufacturers to produce outside of Taiwan because of geopolitical risks, pushing at least one to move production to Vietnam.
A second source who collaborates with Taiwanese satellite component makers in the nation said that suppliers were directly asked by SpaceX to transfer manufacturing abroad.
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Chin-Poon Industrial Co (敬鵬工業), a satellite component maker which said it was recently a SpaceX supplier, told reporters that the US company requested it move its manufacturing from Taiwan to Thailand for new orders “mostly due to geopolitical considerations.”