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Fuji invests RM700m in Kulim chip plant |
Friday, June 08, 2007 |
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| Akira Takai (left) and Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid (second from left) viewing some of the hard disk products made by the group. |
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KULIM: Fuji Electric Device Technologies is investing RM700mil to set up a semiconductor plant in Kulim Hi-Tech Park (KHTP).
The new plant would make high-voltage power transistors used in elevators and motorcycles, said its president Akira Takai.
He said this after the launch of the group's second RM1bil new magnetic disk plant in KHTP by Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid yesterday.
“These power transistors will be shipped to our customers in Japan and other countries,” he added.
Takai said the Fuji Electric group was finalising plans for the project, slated to kick off later this year.
“Initially, we will use some of the vacant buildings in the present 55-acre site where our two plants are located,” he said.
Takai said the magnetic disk manufacturing plant was the biggest overseas investment ever by the group.
“The plant is equipped with eight media and 13 aluminium substrate polish lines with automated processes, advanced sputtering machines from the US, and an automated state-of-the-art clean room,” he said.
Takai said the new plant would double the production capacity of Fuji Electric's local operations to 6.4 million large capacity magnetic disks monthly.
The 80- and 120-gigabyte magnetic disks are used in computers, consumer electronic devices for recording, playing, and storing digital data.
Since 1996, Fuji Electric group has invested RM1.7bil in KHTP.
Source: The Star |
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