On 31 July, 2007, Sharp hosted a press event to announce its plans for constructing a new manufacturing complex.
Sharp has made the decision to build on the same site a new state-of-the-art LCD panel plant and solar cell plant for the mass production of thin-film solar cells in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. This project is being developed as a “manufacturing complex for the 21st century” that will incorporate relevant infrastructure and facilities, as well as attract material and production equipment manufacturers to construct plants on the same site.
| President & COO Mikio Katayama announces Sharp’s development of a 21st century manufacturing complex. |
President & COO Mikio Katayama |
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At the press announcement |
The LCD panel plant will be the first in the world to use 10th-generation glass substrates, the world’s largest size.
| | The solar cell plant will mass produce thin-film solar cells.
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Glass substrate |
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Thin-film solar cells |
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