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James Wright on 27 Oct 11Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., Yazaki Corp. and other automotive wiring harness manufacturers have temporarily shut down some of their production lines in Thailand. This follows the severe flooding which directly led to Honda Motor Co. closing down local assembly lines at its factory in Bangkok as well as Toyota Motor Co. shutting down its three plants in Eastern Thailand due to parts shortages.
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James Wright on 27 Oct 11Japan Metal Daily reported that Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.'s construction of new automotive wiring harness manufacturing facilities will be ongoing until April 2012. This follows a press release from Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. in February 2011 detailing the company's proposals for new wiring harness production facilities in Vietnam and China. The February announcement states that the company's Vietnam-based production will increasingly supply Japan and the US, whereas Chinese production will serve local needs as well as demand from Japan and the US. The new Vietnamese factories were originally intended to begin operations in October 2011, whereas the start date outlined for facilities in China was June 2012.
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James Wright on 06 Sep 12JX Nippon Mining & Metals, an integrated Japan-based refined copper and semi-finished products fabricator, began full-scale production of an ultrathin rolled copper foil, measuring between 6 and 9 microns in thickness. The new products are suitable for use in smartphones and tablet PCs. Advances made in the company's rolling and surface roughening process technology led to the development of the new products. The company estimates that it holds a 75% global market share of treated rolled copper foil, which finds its main application in flexible printed circuit boards for mobile devices.
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Matthew Wonnacott on 07 Dec 12SuperPower Inc, a subsidiary of Furukawa Electric, announced on 7th December that it plans to double the production capacity of superconducting wirerod at its US plant in 2013. The company said it anticipates demand for the wirerod, which is used in areas such as superconducting magnetic energy storage, will increase over the next four to five years, and that it is intending to raise production to meet the new demand.