Sharp's solar-cell factory will be built
Japanese liquid crystal display (LCD) panel maker FPCBP95, FPCBP95ap, FPCBP155 Sharp said it would cost 3,800 billion yen (3.2 billion U.S. dollars) in Japan to build a new LCD plant in order to strengthen the resilience of product prices plunge and upgrade with the Sony and Samsung Electronics among competition.
This new plant will be located in western Japan (soil sector) the city will use 10th-generation technologies; new plant will start production in March 2010 an initial capacity of 36000 glass substrates per month.
This 10-generation plant in the glass substrate size of 2.85 meters by 3.05 meters on can be smaller than the glass substrate production line of previous generations produce more of the panel, enabling Sharp can supply large at more competitive FPCBP205, FPCBP205ap, fujitsu FPCBP95 prices size of TV.
Sharp, the world's third-largest LCD TV maker behind Samsung and Sony, the company said this 10-generation plant in the glass substrate can be cut out of 15 40-inch class panels.
By comparison, the Sharp Kameyama in western Japan is located in the eight-generation plants to be cut out of eight 40-inch class panels.
For the Sharp's competitiveness, the move towards a larger size glass substrates critical to the development, because Sony and Samsung LCD joint venture's eighth-generation plant will start commercial operation next month to catch up with the pace of Sharp.
Dongbu Securities analyst Lee Min-hee, said, "This is Sharp's eighth-generation plant for three weeks to respond, but also in the display panel industry to focus on profitability and control expenses for some time, once again in fujitsu FPCBP95ap, fujitsu FPCBP155, Fujitsu FPCBP205 the investment and expansion."
Analysts said the next new plant is unlikely to cause serious over-supply concerns, because this new plant begins to operate, the demand for LCD TVs is expected to stable growth.
According to research firm DisplaySearch data, 2009 years ago Fujitsu FPCBP205ap, the global LCD TV sales are expected to grow 80% to 88.3 billion U.S. dollars, while rival plasma (PDP) TV demand is likely to shrink by 9% to 168 billion U.S. dollars.
The new solar cell plant
Sharp also said to be a production Sony Battery base in the same building of a new solar cell factory.
Sharp pointed out, this solar plant is expected to begin in March 2010 before the operation, estimated production capacity of 1,000 megawatts, ranking highest in the world.
Sharp, the world's largest solar cell manufacturers, competitors, including Germany's Q-Cells and Japan's Sanyo Electric "6764".
Daiwa Institute of Research analyst Kazuharu Miura said that as the Sharp annual cash flow of up to 4,000 billion yen vgp-bps2, vgp-bps2a, vgp-bps2b, so this new LCD panel plant investment for the limited impact of Sharp's financial structure.
In the new plant project before the formal announcement, Sharp shares closed up 1.5% to 2,065 yen, outperforming the Nikkei average, which fell 0.23%.
Sharp's new plant - voted to build the 10th-generation LCD line and the thin-film solar cells "joint factory" the purpose of
Sharp announced that it will build in Osaka Prefecture Sakai City, LCD panel production line and a new solar cell factory. In order to reduce the 42-inch, 57 inch, 65-inch large-screen LCD panel and the cost of thin-film solar cells, Sharp will the new plant construction as the LCD and solar cell, "a joint factory." Combine a total area of 1.27 million m2 (for the Kameyama plant four times), with a total investment vgp-bps2c, VGP-BPL2, VGP-BPL2C of 1 trillion yen.
10th-generation LCD plant: Through the upstream and downstream vertical integration to reduce costs
LCD panel plant will be the first in the industry use of bottom size 2850mm × 3050mm 10th-generation glass substrate and strive to put into operation in March 2010. The goal is to conduct a thorough upstream and downstream vertical integration, and further reduce costs. So far, the glass substrate supplier Corning (Corning), color filter supplier Dai Nippon Printing, as well as electricity suppliers Kansai Electric Power said it would join a joint facility.
Glass substrate production from silicon raw canon battery , canon bp-208 battery , canon bp-511 battery materials put in the beginning to produce the glass substrate moving through the plant and sent to the production line TFT and color filter production line. The glass substrate not only to buy from a company will also receive the vicinity of a joint facility of glass firms supply to maintain a mechanism to buy from both companies. Color filters also use the same mechanism.
In addition, Sharp is also considering to import new technologies such as inkjet printing, compared to the vertical integration to reduce costs brought about a greater effect.
Thin-film solar cell factory: LCD plant with shared infrastructure to reduce costs
Thin-film solar cell facilities, the annual production capacity to reach 1000MW plant will be a giant LCD plant construction over the same period. This is a sharp focus on the multiplication effect to "energy saving" (LCD) and "The Creation can" (canon lp-e5 battery , canon nb-1lh battery , canon nb-2l battery solar cells) for the business backbone of one of the measures taken. Sharp plans to share with the LCD panel plant infrastructure, reduce costs, while making it the world's largest solar cell production plant. The purpose is to 1000MW by increasing the size of the output to maintain the world's No. 1 market share. The current global annual production of solar cells just over 2000MW, the new plant is completed, Sharp's production will increase to half of the current global production.
With regard to the sharing of infrastructure with the LCD, Sharp said that the use of amorphous silicon can be manufactured using SiH4 gas, water, and bottom handling equipment. Sharp think we can reduce costs by sharing infrastructure, to gain the world's leading cost-competitive. Sharp demonstrated through their own efforts to reduce costs to compete in the global market ideas.
In addition, including the thin-film solar cell production and use of the substrate size, etc., the specific plan is still under discussion among the thin-film solar cell production facility details will be announced later in the program came.
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2850mm × 3050mm 10th-generation glass substrate can be cut out of six separate 65-inch panels, eight 57-inch panels, 15 42-inch panels. On the LCD market, the new plant investment in the background, Sharp, chairman Mikio Katayama this prediction: "At present, 32 inches is the largest selling model, on this basis, the 2010 42-inch market as a whole will account for 40%, 50-inch and larger the big screen will also be increased. (in the display technology) Liquid Crystal in the future will continue to improve product performance and market expansion. In this case, we will actively carry out LCD panels for export. Prior to that, because in order to meet the company's domestic demand-based, we can only carry out small-scale export, with the establishment of the new plant, we will actively carry out canon nb-5h battery , canon nb-5l battery , canon nb-6l battery export. "
