The LEGO Group launches global training programme in Vietnam ahead of 2025 grand opening

• Design and implementation of training programme supported by the company’s LEGO® factories worldwide.
• New training programme to equip hundreds of employees with best-in-class knowledge to operate high-tech equipment.
• Test production on track to start by end of 2024, grand opening on track for H1 2025.

BINH DUONG PROVINCE, VIETNAM, October 9, 2024: The LEGO Group is kicking off a comprehensive training programme for hundreds of its team members at its new LEGO factory in Binh Duong province in southern Vietnam. The programme is designed to equip employees with the skills and knowledge necessary to operate high-tech production equipment ahead of the factory’s grand opening in the first half of 2025.

The training programme will include both hands-on learning overseas at the company’s factories worldwide, as well as local-on-the-job training, creating an exchange between newly hired employees in Vietnam and international colleagues with deep subject matter expertise. Participants will be exposed to scenario-based knowledge and learn troubleshooting skills across a range of functions, including moulding, packing, continuous improvement and more.

Jesper Hassellund Mikkelsen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam, said: “Our team members are our most important assets. I’m incredibly thankful for the close collaboration we have had with other LEGO factories around the world to design trainings that provide our colleagues with best-in-class knowledge into the scale and technology behind what we are building at the site. These trainings are essential in ensuring operational readiness and are the foundation on which future team successes are built.”

The programme places quality and expertise at the forefront, incorporating best-in-class manufacturing practices from LEGO factories around the world. For example, the company’s factory in Billund, Denmark is helping to train new employees in Vietnam on moulding, while the factories in Jiaxing, China and Kladno, Czech Republic are lending their expertise on packing. The factory in Jiaxing, China also plays a significant role as the company’s only other Asia-based manufacturing site. The China factory hosted the first round of trainees in August for a weeks-long exchange.

The acceleration of hiring and launch of the training programme marks a significant milestone for the factory as it progresses towards operational readiness. Construction of the factory is now approximately 85% complete with test production on track to begin later this year.

The LEGO Group announced its investment in a new factory in Vietnam in 2021 and is committed to creating more than 4,000 jobs over the next 15 years.