The S-LCD joint venture began commercial operations last year and the large-screen panels it makes are supplied to Sony and Samsung for use in flat-panel televisions.
Wednesday's announcement comes even though a previously announced expansion of the factory yet to be completed.
Present monthly capacity at the plant is 60,000 sheets of LCD mother glass per month. Mother glass is the name given to large sheets of glass from which several LCD panels can be made. The size of glass in use at the S-LCD plant measures 1.87 meters by 2.2 m, and can produce eight 40-inch panels or six 46-inch panels.
The first stage of expansion, which was announced last year, is intended to raise production capacity to 75,000 sheets per month by July and the expansion announced Wednesday will further push this to 90,000 panels per month by the beginning of 2007.
A second factory is also planned for the site and represents a US$2 billion investment by the companies. Plans for the new plant were announced about a week ago and it is expected to be in operation in the latter part of 2007.
Sony, Samsung to further raise LCD production
S-LCD Corp., the LCD (liquid crystal display) panel production joint venture of Sony Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plans to invest a further 222 billion won (US$237 million) to expand production at its factory in Tangjeong, South Korea, it said Wednesday.
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