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Friday, July 4, 2025

First Chinese tenant moves in at Phoenix Park

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Sera Huang (Summit Luggage), Michael Chen (Factory Manager, Summit Luggage), Marc Sandy (Business Facilitation Officer - InvesTT) give thumbs up at the site of their factory shell at Phoenix Park Industrial Estate

Sera Huang (Summit Luggage), Michael Chen (Factory Manager, Summit Luggage), Marc Sandy (Business Facilitation Officer - InvesTT) give thumbs up at the site of their factory shell at Phoenix Park Industrial Estate

Sum­mit (TT) Lug­gage Co Ltd, head­quar­tered in Guang­dong, Chi­na, is the first ten­ant at eTecK’s Phoenix Park In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

The com­pa­ny will es­tab­lish a man­u­fac­tur­ing as­sem­bly line to pro­duce 90 per cent hard-shell lug­gage us­ing poly­car­bon­ate and polypropy­lene in­puts, a state­ment from In­vesTT said.

It will ex­port its prod­ucts main­ly to North Amer­i­can and Eu­ro­pean cor­po­rate clients which in­clude brand names in the lug­gage and re­tail in­dus­tries.

The state­ment said com­pa­ny of­fi­cials Michael Chen and Sera Huang ar­rived in T&T on Feb­ru­ary 3, 2023, to pro­vide di­rect over­sight of the cus­tomi­sa­tion and com­ple­tion of the 5,000 square me­tre fac­to­ry shell.

Chen, the fac­to­ry man­ag­er, said this coun­try was cho­sen pri­mar­i­ly for its lo­ca­tion and easy reach to its US clients.

“The ben­e­fits for us are that ship­ments from here will take about one week in quick turn­around in ad­di­tion to the fact that it will be eas­i­er for clients shar­ing the same time zone to vis­it our T&T fac­to­ry for au­dits as they are close by,” he added.

Chen al­so not­ed that many Chi­nese com­pa­nies are mov­ing their fac­to­ries over­seas.

Sek­ou Al­leyne, pres­i­dent of In­vesTT said the move high­lights the in­creas­ing glob­al in­vestor con­fi­dence in the coun­try as a man­u­fac­tur­ing and ex­port­ing hub in the Caribbean.

“We have a huge in­vest­ment ad­van­tage in nearshore man­u­fac­tur­ing be­cause of our ge­o­graph­ic lo­ca­tion be­tween the Amer­i­c­as, along­side the easy ac­cess to con­sumers pro­vid­ed via our in­ter­na­tion­al car­go ports and trade agree­ments,” he added.

Sum­mit Lug­gage was found­ed in 2001 and is one of the lead­ing lug­gage en­ter­pris­es in Chi­na with ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,200 work­ers.

Their an­nu­al out­put is up to three mil­lion pieces of lug­gage and bags which are cur­rent­ly be­ing sold in more than 80 coun­tries.

The com­pa­ny’s plans for ex­pan­sion in T&T in­clude greater in­dus­tri­al space and the ap­pli­ca­tion of plas­tic in­jec­tion tech­nol­o­gy for lug­gage com­po­nent man­u­fac­tur­ing.

In­vesTT’s In­vestor Ser­vices team has been work­ing with Sum­mit (TT) Lug­gage to as­sist with work per­mits, ac­cess to in­cen­tives, reg­u­la­to­ry agency per­mits and post-con­struc­tion ap­provals.


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