Haier announces plans for assembly plant, $10M industrial park

China’s Ambassador to Guyana Yu Wenzhe (left) and Haier’s Guyana service centre manager Nyall Jodhan examine a netbook at the launching of the firm’s Middle Street service centre yesterday. (Photo by Anjuli Persaud)

Chinese firm, Haier Electrical Appliances Ltd will set up an assembly plant here and plans to establish an industrial park in an investment pegged at US$10 million.

“Right now we are looking at the assembly for the laptops and the computers because we’ve already gotten the assembly line conveyor belt, trolleys, technology stuff and so on. That’s here now,” businessman Brian James, who is the firm’s local partner, told Stabroek News