Toshiba, Hitachi Shutter LCD Plants for a Month Following Earthquake
Toshiba, Hitachi Shutter LCD Plants for a Month Following Earthquake
Posted 03/18/2011 at 5:21am
| by Paul Lilly
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More plant closures are coming as a result of the devastating earthquake in Japan. Toshiba, for example, said it is shutting down a liquid crystal display plant in Fukaya for about a month as the firm assesses the damage and goes about making repairs. Meanwhile, Hitachi is stopping production of small panel LCDs at a factory near Tokyo, also for about a month.
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COMMANDER_COOK
March 18, 2011 at 3:04pm
The GM plant is Shreveport, LA has already closed citing shortage of parts from Japan.
TechLarry
March 18, 2011 at 7:09am
The sad thing is, how little or how much these closures have on the market won't be in line with reality. Market pricing will be manipulated by others to take as much advantage of this situation as possible.
And it should all be illegal.
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