Plant
contract campus
Cileungsi, West Java, Indonesia[1]. Built for 2 brands on record.
Samick plant opened 1992 per fuzzfaced; builds Epiphone, Squier, Cordoba, Washburn, Hohner and Gretsch (IS prefix). Register: Samick (Korea); 50 hectares, 11 buildings. Also Squier, Cordoba, Washburn, Hohner. Geolocated 2026-10-15: Cileungsi, Kab. Bogor; customs data gives three different address strings (Jl. Raya KH Umar/Dayeuh; Jl. Perkebunan Desa Kidul; Cibeureum); Nominatim reached only a village-level point; claim C431.
More: every plant in Indonesia, the Gretsch lineage, the Epiphone lineage.
The point marks Cileungsi, West Java, Indonesia at city level. It shows the town, not the factory gate. Recorded place[1]. Lines run in from where its materials come from (listed below). Each origin is the centre of the region or country on record, not a mill or a forest.
Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.
The operator is not always the brand owner. Follow a company to see every plant it ran.
| Years | Operator | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1992–now | PT Samick Indonesia | secondary[5] |
| Years | Brand | Line | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–now | Gretsch | Gretsch Streamliner | full build | secondary[2, 3] |
| undated | Epiphone | Epiphone Indonesia | full build | community[4] |
What reaches the plant, in what form, from where, and who supplied it. A plant building for several brands draws on the same supply for all of them.
| Material | Form | From | Supplier | Customs | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahogany Swietenia macrophylla | log | Java, Indonesia | Perum Perhutani | — | undated | secondary[6] |
| Nyatoh Palaquium spp. | log | Indonesia | Not on record | — | undated | secondary[6] |
| Sitka spruce Picea sitchensisSome lumber cut to blanks in Vietnam first. | sawn lumber | Pacific Northwest, USA via Vietnam | Not on record | HS 4407 | undated | secondary[6] |
| Hard maple Acer saccharumAdded 2026-10-15 (llm:claude-sonnet-5-5). Shipments dated 2025-04-24, 2025-06-26, 2025-07-17 from C.A. Spencer Inc. to PT Samick Indonesia; Vancouver lading, Seattle US port per research subagent (not re-opened by lead session). Species mapped to SP007 from the label 'hard maple'. Source S203 (aggregator, proposed secondary). | sawn lumber | Quebec (shipper location, Laval), Canada | C.A. Spencer Inc. | HS 4407.93 |
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.
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| unverified[7] |
| From | Part | Change | Why | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year unknown | neck | Mahogany → Nyatoh | Cost: nyatoh and meranti as mahogany alternatives on entry-level lines | secondary[6] |
Chain-of-custody and legality certificates that cover the timber this plant takes in.
| Scheme | Verified by | Certificate | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVLK S-LK | Not on record | No number on record | undated | unverified[6] |