MARVEL Garment Co. Ltd, the largest vertically integrated knitwear manufacturer in China, which has been constructing a new production facility since March 2019 in Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone is now ready to commence Phase 1 operations in early October.

To enable production works to commence, the company will recruit 5,000 workers for production of masks for export specifically to the Japanese market.

Moreover, the project is designed as a cluster of apparel manufacturing facility, with tailoring, sewing, printing, embroidery, packaging and warehousing.

The factory clusters cover  43 hecatres of land. Up to  16 production areas are planned to be completed by 2021, which will then create an  17,000 job opportunities.

Mr. Yan Delin, General Manager of Marvel Garment said, “We decided to move forward, despite the challenging times, so that we can prepare for a post COVID-19 world. By doing so, we will keep creating more job opportunity in Cambodia.”

Phnom Peng Special Economic Zone has  108 registered companies of which  88 are in op­eration, 14 are in preparation, while six stopped operations. Total investments have amounted to $667 million.

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