Matsushita Electric, Toshiba to Invest 180 Billion Yen to Build World's Largest PDP Plant.Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. , Japan, Jan 11, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba plan to construct a new plasma display panel See plasma display. (PDP (1) (Plasma Display Panel) See plasma display. (2) (Policy Decision Point) See COPS and XACML. (3) (Programmed Data P ) manufacturing facility in Hyogo Prefecture. The companies will invest 180 billion yen ($1.53 bil) to construct a fourth facility on a site adjacent to the third PDP production facility of Matsushita Plasma Display Also called "gas discharge display," a flat-screen technology that uses tiny cells lined with phosphor that are full of inert ionized gas (typically a mix of xenon and neon). Three cells make up one pixel (one cell has red phosphor, one green, one blue). , a PDP production joint venture run by Matsushita Electric and Toshiba. The new plant will have a monthly output capacity of 500,000 42-inch panels per month. Construction will start in May 2006, and production will begin in July 2007. The new facility will be fully up and running in fiscal 2008, by which time Matsushita will operate five PDP plants in Japan and in China with total annual production reaching 11.1 million units, making the company the largest PDP producer in the world. Matsushita forecasts that the global PDP market will reach 25 million panels in 2010, aiming to grab more than a 40% share of the market. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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