Sharp has announced it will build in Osaka Prefecture Sakai City line LCD panel manufacturing plant and a new solar cell. To reduce the 42-inch, 57 inch, 65 inch widescreen LCD panel and the cost of thin film solar cells, Sharp is building new facilities such as LCD and solar cell, “a factory town.” Combine a total area of 1.27 million m2 (for the Kameyama plant four times), with a total investment of 1 billion yen.
10th generation LCD plant: With vertical integration upstream and downstream to reduce costs
LCD panel plant will be the first in the use of industry size substrate is 2850mm x 3050mm 10th-generation glass substrates, try to put into operation in March 2010. The objective is to conduct a thorough integration upstream and downstream vertical, and further reduce costs. Until now, the glass substrate supplier Corning (Corning), color filter supplier Dai Nippon Printing and electricity suppliers Kansai Electric Power said it would join a joint facility.
The manufacture of glass substrate from silicon raw materials made from start to produce the glass substrate moving through the factory and sent to the production line TFT and color filter production line. dell latitude d620 battery Glass substrate not only buying a business will also receive the vicinity of a joint facility of the glass supply companies to maintain a purchasing mechanism for both companies. Color filters also use the same mechanism.
In addition, Sharp also plans to import new technologies such as inkjet printing, as compared to vertical integration to reduce costs resulted in a greater effect.
Thin-film solar cell factory: LCD plant with a shared infrastructure to reduce costs
Facilities cells in thin layers for solar energy, the annual production capacity to reach 1000MW plant will be a giant LCD plant construction during the same period. This is a sharp focus on the multiplier effect of energy saving “(LCD) and” can not create “(solar cells) for the business backbone of one of measures. Largest Solar Sharp plans to share infrastructure with LCD panel plant, reducing costs while making the world production of plant cells. hp f4486b battery The objective is to 1000MW by increasing the size of production to keep the world No. 1 market share. The current annual global production of solar cells just over 2000MW, the new facility is completed, production will increase from Sharp to half of current world production.
Regarding the sharing of infrastructure with the LCD, Sharp said that the use of amorphous silicon can be manufactured using SiH4 gas, water and substrate handling equipment. Sharp believes that we can reduce costs by sharing infrastructure costs to acquire the world’s leading competition. Sharp has demonstrated through their own efforts to reduce costs to compete in the global market ideas.
In addition, including thin film solar battery production and use of the size of the substrate, etc., the specific plan is still under discussion between the thin film solar cell production facility details will be announced later in the program is entered.
In 2010, the market share of widescreen LCD continues to grow
2850mm x 3050mm 10th-generation glass substrates can be cut in six separate 65-inch panels, eight panels of 57 inches, 15 by 42 inch panels. On the LCD market, investment in new facilities in the background, Sharp, Mikio Katayama, president of this prediction: “At present, 32 inches is the biggest selling model, on this basis, the 2010 42 -inch market as a whole will account for 40% over the 50-inch widescreen is also increased. (in display technology) Liquid Crystal in the future continue to improve product performance and market expansion. In this case, we will actively carry out the LCD screens for export. Previously, due to meet the demand, motorized, it can only lead to export small scale, with the creation of the new plant, we will actively carry out the export. “