Plant
owned factory
Qingdao, Shandong, China[1]. Built for 1 brand on record.
Gibson-owned. conflict:K013 opened 2002 vs 2004; dedicated Epiphone plant 2006. Geolocated 2026-10-15: Zhangjiatun Village, Puji Town, Jiaozhou City, Qingdao (Panjiva and ImportGenius agree); point is the Puji town centroid; claim C437.
More: every plant in China, the Epiphone lineage.
The point marks Qingdao, Shandong, China at city level. It shows the town, not the factory gate. Recorded place[1].
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2004–now | Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) | community[3] |
| Years | Brand | Line | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002–now | Epiphone | Epiphone China | full build | disputed[2] |
| 2004–now | Epiphone | Epiphone China | full build | community[3] |
| 2006–now | Epiphone | Epiphone China | full build | disputed[2] |
The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.
| Years | Line | Owner | Parent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004–2018[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 3] | Epiphone China | Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) | — |
| 2018–now[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 3] | Epiphone China | Gibson Guitar Corp. / Gibson Brands, Inc. (2013) / Gibson, Inc. (2024) |
No supply records for this plant yet.
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.
| KKR-led creditor group (Gibson) |
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