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Juheng.com quoted Nihon Keizai Shimbun as saying that Sony will close its plant in Penang, Malaysia, and related production will be transferred to a plant in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur.

It is reported that the Penang factory is the main force of the company's audio products, mainly producing home audio and headphones. Sony said that the plant was closed to consolidate production in Malaysia, but Nikkei reported that approximately 3,600 employees at the Penang plant will be affected. Most of them may be fired, and some of them may also be dismissed. Transfer to another factory to work.

Sony plans to stop operating the Penang plant by the end of September 2021 and will close it by the end of March 2022.

In addition, Sony is reviewing the production of the company's audio and other electrical products. The company's TV and audio factory in Brazil will also close in 2021.

Affected by the epidemic, Sony's electrical products business estimates that operating profit in 2020 (until March 2021) will decrease by 23% year-on-year to 67 billion yen.