Panasonic and Toray to Build World’s Largest Plasma Display Panel Plant in Japan
Commencing Operations in July 2007, New Plant to Boost Panasonic’s PDP Output to over 11 Million Panels Per Annum via Production Technology Yielding World-First Eight Panels Per Sheet -
Panasonic, the brand for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is best known, and diversified chemical group Toray Industries, Inc. today announced plans to build a new plasma display panel (PDP) manufacturing facility in Japan. The facility will be the fourth plant of their PDP joint venture, Matsushita PDP Company Ltd. (MPDP), giving Panasonic the largest PDP production capacity in the world.
With an investment of 180 billion yen, the world’s largest PDP plant will be situated next to MPDP’s third PDP plant in Amagasaki, Japan. The new plant will have a production capacity of 6 million panels per year (calculated on the basis of 42-inch screen-size panels).
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