Hong Kong-listed Tack Fat Group International will expand swimwear production at its Cambodian factory fivefold to one million pieces a day in the run-up to the country's World Trade Organisation entry.
The company is the largest employer in Cambodia with about 10,000 workers, most of them making casual wear. It will increase its swimwear workforce from 600 to more than 3,000.
Chairman Kwok Wing said his firm wanted to grab more market share amid the global trend towards outsourcing production to Southeast Asia and China.
Cambodia expected to join the WTO late this year or early next year and would be entitled to export to the United States without quota restrictions immediately, said Suy Sem, the country's industry minister.
'This is expected to attract more foreign manufacturers to our country,' Mr Suy said.
Cambodia's garment industry accounted for 25 per cent of the country's gross domestic product and exported about US$1 billion worth of goods a year.