| Toshiba and Matsushita Incorporate Singapore Joint Venture For Low-temperature Polysilicon TFT LCD Panels 24 April, 2001
Tokyo--Toshiba Corporation and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. today announced that they have incorporated their new Singapore joint venture, AFPD PTE., LTD., and that will start its operation on May 1, 2001. Toshiaki Fujii, previous general manager of Toshiba's Fukaya Operations, will join AFPD as its president on May 1, 2001. Amid increasing demand for low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCDs, the new joint venture will assure Toshiba and Matsushita of a reliable supply of state-of-the-art products. Construction of the company's new manufacturing facility will start this May, with the plant scheduled to come on stream in July 2002. The partners expect to invest some 123 billion yen in the company, with 67% coming from Toshiba and 33% from Matsushita, and to ramp up its capacity to 55,000 730mm x 920mm glass substrates a month by fiscal year 2003. The large glass substrates AFPD will provide will support a variety of applications such as portable PCs, monitors and televisions, and help promote low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCDs, as the next generation TFT display solution. About AFPD PTE., LTD.
About Toshiba Corporation Toshiba Corporation's wide-ranging capabilities assures its position as a leading company in LCDs, CRTs, batteries, semiconductors and other electronic devices, and allows it to support its customers around the world with a complete portfolio of electronic devices. Toshiba has 191,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of over US$50 billion. Visit Toshiba's web site at http://www.toshiba.co.jp About Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic, National, Technics, and Quasar brand names, is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronics products for a wide range of consumer, business, and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company recorded consolidated sales of US$68.9 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. In addition to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Matsushita's shares are listed on the Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, New York (NYSE: MC), Pacific, and Paris stock exchanges. For more information, visit the Matsushita web site at http://www.panasonic.co.jp/global/. |
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