Sharp to Start Mass Production of Blue LED Chips at Its Fukuyama Plant
Source/Type:  LIGHTimes Online - News - Staff reports

Author: LIGHTimes News Staff

May 20, 2010... Sharp Corporation of Japan announced that it will start mass production of blue LED chips at its 15 billion yen Fukuyama Plant in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan within 2010. The blue LED chip production at the Fukuyama City plant will add to the blue chip production that the company began in January 2010 at its Mihara City plant. Sharp says that the additional production from the Fukuyama plant will boost its total production capacity of blue LED chips to approximately five billion units a year in fiscal 2011. Sharp’s blue LED chip production business at the Fukuyama Plant has been adopted as a project under the “Fiscal 2009 subsidy scheme for promoting the location of low-carbon industry and creating employment” run by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

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