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| 03/01/07 |
Nissan Shatai to Build Plant in Kanda-machi |
Nissan Auto group member Nissan Shatai of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, announced it would build a new vehicle assembly plant at the Nissan Kyushu complex in Kanda-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture. The company will produce two minivan models starting in 2009, with annual production estimated at 120,000 units.
This will be the first time in 15 years for the Nissan Group to boost its production capacity in Kyushu since it expanded the capacity of its second plant in 1992. Overall Kyushu production will be an estimated 620,000 units, accounting for 40% of the group's total nationwide. Their objective is to boost production efficiency by moving their production to Kyushu, where the auto parts industry is becoming more concentrated.
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| 03/01/07 |
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Rohm to Invest 20 Billion Yen in New LSI Plant |
Rohm will build a new production facility in Chikugo, Fukuoka Prefecture, for the manufacture of large-scale integrated circuits (LSI) using the most advanced 300-millimeter-diameter wafers. Land for the facility already has been acquired, and wafer processing is due to begin in 2007. The company also plans to build a new pre-processing wing for burning in the circuits in another three to five years, and thus begin full-scale LSI production.
The company's investment costs in the first phase of the program for pre-processing are expected to be 20 billion yen. The facility is being built to respond to growing demand for LSIs stemming from the greater use of electronic equipment in automobiles.
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| 03/01/07 |
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Daihatsu Motor to Build Engine Plant in Kurume |
Daihatsu Motor has decided to build an engine plant in Tanushimaru-machi, Kurume. Mayor Morikuni Eto and other local officials expect the plant to benefit the city in several ways. One of these ways will be as an economic stimulus for the city, as the many subsidiary sectors of the auto industry, ranging from parts manufacturers to delivery companies, are likely to establish a presence in the area. The decision to build the Daihatsu plant was taken by the board of directors at Toyota Motors, the parent company, on December 26.
The factory will be located on about 200,000 square meters of land in the second subdivision of the Shinyoshimoto Industrial Park, managed by the city's development corporation. Production capacity is estimated at 250,000 to 300,000 engines per year. Daihatsu will invest roughly 10 billion yen in the project. The plant is expected to begin operation in 2008, and will initially employ about 200 people.
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| 03/01/07 |
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Northern Kyushu Automobile Production Tops Million Mark |
The total number of automobiles produced in 2006 at the factories of three automakers whose production headquarters are based in northern Kyushu totaled 1.011 million, roughly 110,000 more than the 902,391 produced in 2005. This is the first time automobile production in the region topped the million mark.
The growth was particularly pronounced for the production by Toyota Motors Kyushu and Daihatsu Kyushu. A public-private sector council in the region committed to promoting the production of one million vehicles had foreseen 2007 as the year their target would be reached, but it was achieved one year faster than anticipated. The council now is promoting the production of 1.5 million vehicles.
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| 12/15/06 |
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Korea's largest tour company establishes an office |
Hanatour Japan, the Japanese Branch of Korea's largest tour company, Hanatour, established a liaison office in Fukuoka City in September, 2006. It will be the company's second base in Japan following Tokyo.
The company, which boasts the highest sales in the Korean tour industry, is experiencing strong increases in the number of customers of package tours to Kyushu, which attracts a quarter of the total number of customers visiting Japan. With the number of Korean tourists to Fukuoka and Kyushu increasing year by year, Hanatour Japan is aiming to strengthen its operations in Kyushu through the establishment of the Kyushu liaison office.
It is expected through the entry by the company, Fukuoka and the geographically close Korea will develop even closer relations in tourism exchange.
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