Acer Display Technologies

Project Title: Acer Display Technologies


Revision Date:
 11/1/2002

Entry Date: 10/1/1998


          Startup Date:
 1998

          Expansion Date: 1998

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Hsinchu

          Size: 19,400 sq. ft. cleanroom area

          Product: 13 inch liquid displays

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Meissner+Wurst, part of Jenoptik technology group, has been chosen by Taiwan computer manufacturer, Acer Display Technologies, to build a facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan, for the manufacture of 13-inch liquid crystal displays. Plans call for a production area of 27,000 square meters in a total building area of 63,000 sq. meters. Cost for the project will exceed $57.13 million. The project should be finished in 1998 including design/build of technical facilities, cleanrooms, HVAC, and process supply systems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applied Komatsu Technology (AKT)

Project Title: Applied Komatsu Technology (AKT)


Revision Date:
 6/1/2004

Entry Date: 6/1/2004


          Startup Date:
 2004

          Expansion Date:  

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Hinschu

          Size:  

          Product: LCDs

          Address:  

          Telephone: 03-5561-2616

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Applied Komatsu Technology (AKT), a 50-50 joint venture between the parent companies Applied Materials and Komatsu. They have signed an agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to establish AKT's Asia-Pacific R&D Center in the ITRI complex in Hinschu, Taiwan. The center will focus on the development of seventh-generation thin-film transistor LCD production equipment. Taiwan's development of TFT-LCD technologies is accelerating and its production value is expected to surpass that of South Korea in 2004, to become the highest in the world. ITRI's Electronics Research and Service Organization will assume responsibility for establishing the cleanroom facilities and for analyzing and verifying properties of the TFT-LCD components created by the joint venture. AKT will be responsible for developing next generation production process equipment and technologies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 AU Optronics (AUO)

Project Title: AU Optronics (AUO)


Revision Date:
 7/1/2005

Entry Date: 8/1/2003


          Startup Date:
 2005

          Expansion Date:  

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Central Taiwan TaiChung Science-Based Ind. Pk, Taichung County

          Size:  

          Product: LCDs

          Address: No. 1, Li-Hsin RD 2, Sci,Based Ind. Park, Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan ROC

          Telephone: 886-3-5632939 ex 3211 / fax 886-3-5772730

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          AU Optronics has broken ground for the construction of a next-generation TFT LCD line in Central Taiwan Science-Based Industrial Park in Taichung County. The line is expected to be sixth-generation size with a monthly capacity of processing 80,000 substrates. Equipment will be installed in the fourth quarter of 2004, with operations at the factory by March 2005. The $2.6 billion investment will only be the first phase of AUO's overall plan in central Taiwan which calls for a total investment of $21 billion to build four next-generation TFT LCD lines. 30-inch and larger panels will be produced. **As of August 2004, AUO's G6 fab has received its first batch of G6 color filter machinery, one of three presently available in the world. The machine had to be disassembled into 34 separate crates, which required 2 freight cargo carriers for delivery from Germany. Soon after ground-breaking on July 28, 2003, the construction for the AUO's latest cleanroom fab had already begun and equipment began to move in July 2004. It is estimated that by the first quarter of 205 AUO's G6 Fab will begin production…earlier than expected. AUO TaiChung expands over 60 hectares of land. Its first phase of construction included TFT-LCD Fab (L10), Color Filter Fab (C10), Module plant (M10), and staff dormitories with a total investment of over NTD 80 billion. The company's G6 (Fab L10) mother glass size takes up 1500mm x 1850mm with expected capacity of 90k glass substrates per month. ** As of July 2005, AU Optronics, one of the world's top manufacturers of TFT-LCD panels, (Taiwan's largest and the world's third largest), announced the signing of a patent agreement with IBM to allow them to own hundreds of TFT-LCD related patents developed by IBM. About 170 U.S. patents will be transferred as well as counterparts in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other countries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 AU Optronics-2

Project Title: AU Optronics-2


Revision Date:
 8/1/2004

Entry Date: 10/1/2002


          Startup Date:
 2001

          Expansion Date: 2003

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Longtan Optoelectronics Park

          Size: 161,400 sq. ft. plus a 473,440 sq. ft. cleanroom addition

          Product: LCDs

          Address: No.1, Li-Hsin RD 2, Sci.-Based Ind. Park, Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan ROC

          Telephone: 886-3-5632939

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Au Optronics, Taiwan's largest LCD maker, will build a new manufacturing plant for US$2.1 billion. AU Optronics was founded in 2001 through a merger of Acer Display Technology and the Unipac Optoelectronics Corp. **As of January 2003, AU Optronics has started operating a packaging plant in Suzhou, China with a monthly output of 500,000 LCDs. Also, AU Optronics is planning to invest $34 Million in a new R&D center that will focus on plasma displays, organic LEDs and low-temperature polysilicon products. AU will eventually staff the center with 1,000 engineers working in eight to 15 research groups. The center is due to open the first half of 2004. One of the highest priorities is to drive down the cost of 50-inch plasma displays which now sell for several thousand dollars each. **As of February 1, 2003, AU announced that it will begin building a second fifth-generation TFT LCD line and schedules to begin volume production the second quarter of 2004. The line will have the capacity of processing 70,000 1,100x1,300mm substrates per month. ** As of April 2003, AUO has applied to Taiwan's National Science Council to invest money for the next-generation )sixth and seventh-generation) TFT LCD production lines in the Central Taiwan Science-Based Industrial Park. The park will be located in Taichung City and Taichung County. AUO plans to break ground for first-stage construction of the factory in October of 2003 and begin operations a the factory by March 2005. **M+W Zander, a subsidiary of the Jenoptik technology group has received an order from AU Optronics, Longtan, Taiwan, to engineer and construct a cleanroom covering 161,400 sq. ft., including the required air conditioning equipment. The cleanroom order for the Colour Filter Fab, to be completed by the summer of 2003, amounts to approximately $27 million. **As of August 2003, M+W Zander has received a follow-up order from AU Optronics to engineer and construct approximately 473,440 sq. ft. in cleanroom area including connected HVAC systems. This is the second and third construction phases of the production facility. The order volume is within the upper eight-figure euro range. Mass production using the new cleanroom is slated to begin during the fourth quarter of 2003. LCD panels using fifth generation glass substrates (1100x1250mm) . AU Optronics is a merger of Acer Display Technology and the Unipac Optoelectronic Corp. **As of August 2004, AUO's G6 fab has received its first batch of G6 color filter machinery, one of three presently available in the world. The machine had to be disassembled into 34 separate crates, which required 2 freight cargo carriers for delivery from Germany. Soon after ground-breaking on July 28, 2003, the construction for the AUO's latest cleanroom fab had already begun and equipment began to move in July 2004. It is estimated that by the first quarter of 205 AUO's G6 Fab will begin production…earlier than expected. AUO TaiChung expands over 60 hectares of land. Its first phase of construction included TFT-LCD Fab (L10), Color Filter Fab (C10), Module plant (M10), and staff dormitories with a total investment of over NTD 80 billion. The company's G6 (Fab L10) mother glass size takes up 1500mm x 1850mm with expected capacity of 90k glass substrates per month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title: AU Optronics / Quanta Display


Revision Date:
 5/1/2006

Entry Date: 5/1/2006


          Startup Date:
  

          Expansion Date: 2006

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Lungtan

          Size:  

          Product: LCDs

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          **As of May 2006, AU Optronics has merged with Quanta Display. The have several lines including a sixth-generation line with substrates measuring 1,500x1,850-mm at their facility in Lungtan, Taiwan. Quanta expects to increase the volume of substrates from 30,000 to 45,000 substrates per month.

 

 

 

Project Title: AU Optronics / Quanta Display


Revision Date:
 5/1/2006

Entry Date: 10/1/2002


          Startup Date:
 2001

          Expansion Date: 2003

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Longtan Optoelectronics Park

          Size: 161,400 sq. ft. plus a 473,440 sq. ft. cleanroom addition

          Product: LCDs

          Address: No.1, Li-Hsin RD 2, Sci.-Based Ind. Park, Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan ROC

          Telephone: 886-3-5632939

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Au Optronics, Taiwan's largest LCD maker, will build a new manufacturing plant for US$2.1 billion. AU Optronics was founded in 2001 through a merger of Acer Display Technology and the Unipac Optoelectronics Corp. **As of January 2003, AU Optronics has started operating a packaging plant in Suzhou, China with a monthly output of 500,000 LCDs. Also, AU Optronics is planning to invest $34 Million in a new R&D center that will focus on plasma displays, organic LEDs and low-temperature polysilicon products. AU will eventually staff the center with 1,000 engineers working in eight to 15 research groups. The center is due to open the first half of 2004. One of the highest priorities is to drive down the cost of 50-inch plasma displays which now sell for several thousand dollars each. **As of February 1, 2003, AU announced that it will begin building a second fifth-generation TFT LCD line and schedules to begin volume production the second quarter of 2004. The line will have the capacity of processing 70,000 1,100x1,300mm substrates per month. ** As of April 2003, AUO has applied to Taiwan's National Science Council to invest money for the next-generation )sixth and seventh-generation) TFT LCD production lines in the Central Taiwan Science-Based Industrial Park. The park will be located in Taichung City and Taichung County. AUO plans to break ground for first-stage construction of the factory in October of 2003 and begin operations a the factory by March 2005. **M+W Zander, a subsidiary of the Jenoptik technology group has received an order from AU Optronics, Longtan, Taiwan, to engineer and construct a cleanroom covering 161,400 sq. ft., including the required air conditioning equipment. The cleanroom order for the Colour Filter Fab, to be completed by the summer of 2003, amounts to approximately $27 million. **As of August 2003, M+W Zander has received a follow-up order from AU Optronics to engineer and construct approximately 473,440 sq. ft. In cleanroom area including connected HVAC systems. This is the second and third construction phases of the production facility. The order volume is within the upper eight-figure euro range. Mass production using the new cleanroom is slated to begin during the fourth quarter of 2003. LCD panels using fifth generation glass substrates (1100x1250mm) . AU Optronics is a merger of Acer Display Technology and the Unipac Optoelectronic Corp. **As of August 2004, AUO's G6 fab has received its first batch of G6 color filter machinery, one of three presently available in the world. The machine had to be disassembled into 34 separate crates, which required 2 freight cargo carriers for delivery from Germany. Soon after ground-breaking on July 28, 2003, the construction for the AUO's latest cleanroom fab had already begun and equipment began to move in July 2004. It is estimated that by the first quarter of 205 AUO's G6 Fab will begin production…earlier than expected. AUO TaiChung expands over 60 hectares of land. Its first phase of construction included TFT-LCD Fab (L10), Color Filter Fab (C10), Module plant (M10), and staff dormitories with a total investment of over NTD 80 billion. The company's G6 (Fab L10) mother glass size takes up 1500mm x 1850mm with expected capacity of 90k glass substrates per month. **As of May 2006, AU Optronics has merged with Quanta Display.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) / Sony

Project Title: Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) / Sony


Revision Date:
 3/1/2005

Entry Date: 3/1/2003


          Startup Date:
 2003

          Expansion Date: 2005

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Tainan (Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park)

          Size: 1,226,640 sq. ft. cleanroom

          Product: LCDs

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) applied to the Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park for 27 hectares of land to build a facility housing a six-generation TFT LCD line. CMO has not completed a detailed plan for the investment but plans to break ground in April 2003. **As of August 2003, Chi Mei Optoelectronics has completed the fifth-generation TFT LCD line. The facility has 1,226,640 sq. ft. of cleanroom space on three floors. The monthly capacity of processing 120,000 1,100x1,300mm substrates will be the world's largest 5Gline according to the company. Volume production is expected to begin in October 2003. CMO plans to begin 17- and 27-inch panel volume production at the line in the fourth quarter and 19-inch panel volume production in 2004. **As of November 2003, Chi Mei Optoelectronics will skip over six-generation TFT LCD lines and go directly for a 7G line. CMO has secured 80 hectares of land at the Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park and plans to invest to build three next-generation TFT LCD lines within three to five years. **As of March 2005, Sony plans to acquire Chi Mei for $176.2 million. Sony said the purchase would enable the production of up to 65,000 liquid crystal display panels per month., up from about 40,000 at present. Sony will hire their 420 workers and plans to spend $257 million to refurbish the plant. Sony will own all shares of a new company spun off from Chi Mei's Japan-based International Display Technology (IDTech) Sony will acquired IDTech's factory and equipment in Yasu city, about 220 miles southwest of Tokyo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title: Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT)


Revision Date:
 5/1/2006

Entry Date: 5/1/2006


          Startup Date:
 2007

          Expansion Date:  

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Central Taiwan Science Park / Houli Base

          Size:  

          Product: TFT-LCD panel displays

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) plans to begin construction of a seventh-generation or beyond panel-production plant in October 2006. The will get a 40-hectare site from the Central Taiwan Science Park Houli Base for the facility. The company will invest about $6.98-billion in the new panel plant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chunghwa

Project Title: Chunghwa


Revision Date:
 12/1/2003

Entry Date: 10/1/2002


          Startup Date:
  

          Expansion Date: 2003

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Lungtan Optoelectronics Park

          Size:  

          Product: LCD

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Chunghwa Picture Tubes will spend NT$60 billion on several production lines and a new facilities to produce TFT-LCD panels. One of the lines will be a state-of-the-art fifth generation line. ** As of November 2002, Chunghwa has changed its planned fifth generation thin film transistor LCD plant to a sixth generation plant and will start mass production of the latest panels in the second half of 2004. The proposed new TFT-LCD plant will be the first sixth generation plant in Taiwan and the third of its kind in the world. **As of December 2003, Chunghwa Picture Tubes plans to build a second 4.5 generation TFT LCD array processing line, which will use the same cell processing line as its planned sixth-generation TFT LCD line. CPT has already placed orders for the equipment for the line, which will have a monthly processing capacity of 75,000 substrates. Production is expected in 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title: Corning-4


Revision Date:
 5/1/2006

Entry Date: 4/1/2002


          Startup Date:
 2001

          Expansion Date: 2006

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Tainan and Taichung

          Size:  

          Product: glass for displays

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          By the end of 2000, Corning Incorporated will double its worldwide capacity to produce active-matrix liquid-crystal-display glass substrates. The company has begun to expand facilities in Japan and Korea and the first unit of new capacity will come on-line in January 2000, followed by additional units throughout the year. A new finishing facility will be started in Taiwan and should be completed in 2001. Corning will use the capacity to commercialize a new glass substrate that will be both lighter in weight and more rigid than existing substrates. **As of May 2006, Corning has expanded its Tainan, Taiwan faciity and constructed a second faciity in Taichung that opened in January 2006.

 

 

 Corning-4

Project Title: Corning-4


Revision Date:
 4/1/2000

Entry Date:  


          Startup Date:
 2001

          Expansion Date: 2001

          Country: Taiwan

          City:  

          Size:  

          Product: glass for displays

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          By the end of 2000, Corning Incorporated will double its worldwide capacity to produce active-matrix liquid-crystal-display glass substrates. The company has begun to expand facilities in Japan and Korea and the first unit of new capacity will come on-line in January 2000, followed by additional units throughout the year. A new finishing facility will be started in Taiwan and should be completed in 2001. Corning will use the capacity to commercialize a new glass substrate that will be both lighter in weight and more rigid than existing substrates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Title: HannStar


Revision Date:
 5/1/2006

Entry Date: 2/1/2002


          Startup Date:
 2002

          Expansion Date: 2006

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Tainan Science-based Industrial Park

          Size:  

          Product: LCDs

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          HannStar has made it public that it plans to build a fifth generation TFT-LCD plant in Tainan Science-based Industrial Park. Presently, Samsung of south Korea and LG Philips are the only two makers in the world that have already set up their fifth generation TFT-LCD production lines. **As of December 2003, HannStar decided to double the monthly processing capabilities of its fifth-generation TFT LCD line to 120,000 substrates by the end of 2004. The company has placed equipment orders for the expansion. Total investment on the 5G line could exceed NT$450 million. **As of May 2006, HannStar Display plans to construct a seventh-generation plant with a monthly capacity of 45,000 substrates. Construction will be in two phases with capacity reaching 15,000 to 20,000 substrates in the first phase, while the second phase will add a monthly capacity of another 25,000 to 30,000 substrates. HannStar will reserve 25,000 to 30,000 substrates per month for its own use while the rest of the panels will be sold outside the group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Hon Hai-1

Project Title: Hon Hai-1


Revision Date:
 6/1/2003

Entry Date: 8/1/2002


          Startup Date:
 2004

          Expansion Date:  

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park

          Size:  

          Product: flat panel displays

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Hon Hai Group is planning to build a generation-five FPD facility. The group may spend $700 million to $1 billion building the TFT-LCD plant. Hon Hai is expected to finish the construction of the plant in about 2004. **As of June 2003, Hon Hai broke ground for their fifth-generation TFT LCD factory and opening of an IC and opto-electronics equipment factory. Both factories are located at the Chunan, Miaoli County site of the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP). Subsidiary Innolux Display will be the seventh Taiwanese company to enter TFT LCD production and plans to invest more than NT$30 billion to build the lines in the next two years. Subsidiary Foxsemicon Integrated Technology plant to invest an additional NT$5 billion in its new IC and opto-electronics equipment factory, its third factory, within the next two years. This company plans to take the lead in mobile phone color LCD display production globally and in color LCD display production for China consumer electronics market by 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nan Ya Technology

Project Title: Nan Ya Technology


Revision Date:
 3/1/1995

Entry Date:  


          Startup Date:
 1996

          Expansion Date:  

          Country: Taiwan

          City:  

          Size:  

          Product: Chips & Liquid Crystal Display Screens

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          They plan to invest $1.02 billion in this new company. This plant is to have monthly output of 20,000 eight inch, 16-Mbit, silicon wafers with DRAM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Opto Tech

Project Title: Opto Tech


Revision Date:
 1/1/2004

Entry Date: 1/1/2004


          Startup Date:
  

          Expansion Date: 2004

          Country: Taiwan

          City:  

          Size:  

          Product: OLEDs

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Electronic Components

          Description: 
          Taiwan-based Opto Tech has raised money for their planned expansion of its monthly OLED processing capacity to 15,000 substrates by the end of 2004. It plans to build two OLED lines for mobile phone displays and sub-displays before mid-2004 and two more lines for mobile phone, PDA and car use displays before the end of 2004. Opto Tech has received orders for more than 500,000 panels, mainly from South Korea based mobile phone makers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Photronics

Project Title: Photronics


Revision Date:
 5/1/2005

Entry Date: 5/1/2005


          Startup Date:
 2006

          Expansion Date:  

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Taichung

          Size: 108,676 sq. ft.

          Product: flat panel displays

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Photronics plans to build a new fabrication facility in Taichung, Taiwan. The 10,100 sq. meter (108,676 sq. ft. ) plant will concentrate initially on generation 6 and 7 technologies in support of Taiwan's expanding FPD industry. The company expects to invest approximately $50 million in the site over the next three years, depending on market conditions. The site is scheduled for construction completion and production qualification by mid-2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Quanta Display

Project Title: Quanta Display


Revision Date:
 1/1/2004

Entry Date: 6/1/2002


          Startup Date:
  

          Expansion Date: 2002

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Linko, Taipei

          Size:  

          Product: LCDs

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          This June 2002, the company plans to reach maximum production capacity with an estimated 200,000 TFT-LCDs. To keep up with demand, Quanta is building a cleanroom in its fifth TFT-LCD plant. The company hopes to be tool-ready by September, with mass production slated for 2003. The firm will produce panels for television that range in size from 20 inches and above at this location. **As of December 2003, Quanta Display, one of Taiwan's major TFT LCD makers, will invest to build a sixth-generation production line. The new line will be built in the first half of 2004 and begin operations by the first half of 2005. They will produce glass substrates of 1,500x1,850 mm. Quanta will cooperate with Sharp on research and development. **As of January 2004, Quanta Display plans to build an in-house color filter production line for its new sixth-generation TFT LCD plant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  RiTdisplay and DuPont

Project Title: RiTdisplay and DuPont


Revision Date:
 9/1/2003

Entry Date: 8/1/2002


          Startup Date:
 2002

          Expansion Date: 2003

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Hsinchu

          Size:  

          Product: flat panel displays (OLEDs and PLEDs)

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          RiTdisplay and its technology provider, DuPont, opened their polymer-based organic light-emitting diode (PLED) production line in the Hsinchu Industrial District. Volume production of 30,000 370x470mm substrates is expected by year's end. RiTdisplay also plans to begin volume production of color OLED production line capable of processing 50,000 370x470mm substrates monthly by the end of the year 2002. ** As of September 2003, DuPont has a full production line with RiTdisplay which will ramp up to commercial production of active matrix OLEDs later in 2003. In April 2003, the company launched the Olight brand name for its OLED display products.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toppoly Optoelectronics

Project Title: Toppoly Optoelectronics


Revision Date:
 8/1/2003

Entry Date: 12/1/2001


          Startup Date:
 2002

          Expansion Date: 2003

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Hsinchu

          Size: 451,920 sq. ft. cleanroom space

          Product: LCD panels

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          M+W Zander is to engineer a cleanroom facility for Toppoly Optoelectronics for the production of low-temperature polysilicon panels. These displays will be used in coming generations of portable communication devices. The production of low-temperature TFT-LCDs must be conducted under the strictest cleanroom conditions. The cleanroom facilities will be on three levels, encompassing a total of 451,920 sq. ft. of cleanroom area. Cleanrooms will be from Class 10 to Class 10,000. Toppoly was formerly Tonpal. With the cleanroom addition, Toppoly will become the fourth largest plant for the manufacture of LTPS LCDs. **As of August 2003, Toppoly plans to initially invest NT$60 billion to build a next generation LTPS panel line. Ground breaking is scheduled for the end of 2003 and beginning equipment installation in February 2005 with volume production by the end of 2005. The line, used to produce LCD TV and active-matrix OLED panels, will be expanded to a capacity of producing 65,000 substrates per month by June 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Toshiba/Chunghwa

Project Title: Toshiba/Chunghwa


Revision Date:
 7/1/1996

Entry Date:  


          Startup Date:
 Unknown

          Expansion Date:  

          Country: Taiwan

          City:  

          Size:  

          Product: High-resolution displays

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ulvac

Project Title: Ulvac


Revision Date:
 3/1/2003

Entry Date: 3/1/2003


          Startup Date:
 1982

          Expansion Date: 2003

          Country: Taiwan

          City: Tainan Science-based Industrial Park

          Size:  

          Product: displays

          Address:  

          Telephone:  

          SIC Description: Flat Panel Displays

          Description: 
          Ulvac Taiwan, a subsidiary of Ulvac Japan, has applied to set up an R&D center and production plant in Taiwan's Tainan Science-based Industrial Park. Ulvac hopes to jointly develop seventh-generation thin film transistor-liquid crystal display production equipment with optoelectronic partners at the industrial park. Currently, the Taiwan subsidiary supplies mainly vacuum equipment for fifth-generation and over TFT-LCD plants and 300mm wafer fabrication facilities.