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Nonferrous Metal News05/11/2004

Fujikura Group in Thailand Increase Production
The demand of the pocket music player having the hard disk is extended quickly. The hard disk drive (HDD) carried is micro sizes, such as a diameter of 1.8 inches, or 1 inch. Now, As for LTEC (President Nobuhiro Iwabuchi) of the Fujikura Ltd group in Thailand, and DDK Thailand of same group, it is at a quick pace in the production attitude of a connector, and the coil assembly parts corresponding to this micro HDD are prepared again.

LTEC is manufacturing the coil assembly parts for HDD, the membren switch, the optical parts, etc. In the sales in 2003 fiscal year in the ending of March, about 4 billion bahts and this fiscal year are planning about 6 billion bahts. Production of the coil parts to micro HDD "a microdrive" Turn is started completely the second half. The product corresponding to the diameter of 3.5 inches for servers and 2.5 inch size for notebook PCs has until now mainly been supplied. The total month-long production number underfoot is about 1.8 million pieces.

President Iwabuchi looks back upon the flow of this enterprise, saying, "Its stock increase was serious if applied from the second half last year by this first half." Because the consumption of the last product market flowed from the personal computer field to digital appliances. The sign of demand recovery was shown from September and the firm expects increase of income by 10% in this fiscal year over F2003. Another expected product of the firm on a par with coil parts is a membren switch. It is what printed the electric conduction circuit with silver paste on the PET film, and is the switch portion of home electronics, and is expected increase income by 10% over F2003.

DDK Thailand is manufacturing the connector at the subsidiary of Fujikura. In the sales in F2003, about 3.55 billion bahts and this fiscal year expect about 4 billion bahts. It was full of demand underfoot and the sales in the first half of exceeded the target value 15%." (President Akihiro Sugiyama) Management resources are concentrated now by using three kinds of a card connector, the connector for HDD, and FF connector as a strategy product. FF connector is a connector of the minimum size mounted on an electronic board, and is carried in a connection part, a pocket music player, etc. of a liquid crystal screen of a cellular phone. Since the order received exceeding productive capacity continues, the firm correspond for production increase from next year down.




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