Industry

Sharp to double workforce of Kameyama plant for smartphone camera parts

EEinews Comment(0)

According to Japanese media, Sharp plans to double workforce of its Kameyama plant in Mie Prefecture, Japan for new business. The workforce count of Kameyama plant as of Dec 2016 is 2067.

The plant is currently Sharp’s main factory of LCD panel. The new business for the plant may include camera parts for smartphone for customers such as Apple. While production of small and medium size LCD panel has been largely automated, assembly of camera parts requires manual work so increase of workforce is required.

To increase workforce, Sharp will hire new employee as well as transfer personnel from other divisions. Sharp will increase the workforce of the plant to around 4000 from Jul 2017.

Photo credit: mj-bird/CC BY-SA 3.0

EEinews
EEinews
EEinews is an online magazine focusing on the electronics industry from an Eastern perspective. We aim to provide more insight on the development of the electronics industry in Japan, China and other countries from the east. You will find news, analysis as well as product reviews from this website.

Related Articles
Industry

Toshiba to Spin-off its Memory Business as Toshiba Memory

EEinews

Toshiba has announced the schedule and new company name for its memory business to be spun off. The decision of spinning off its memory business was announced on 27 Jan 2017 with new company name and schedule undecided. The new company name has now announced to be Toshiba Memory Corporation (Toshiba Memory). The new company […]
Industry

Renesas to exit microwave device business

EEinews

Renesas Electronics has announced that it will withdraw from the microwave semiconductor device business and focus its compound device business on optoelectronics devices. Development of new microwave device has already been stopped, while production and supply are expected to be ended in 2018. According to Renesas, reasons of the withdrawal include peripheral components being incorporated […]
Industry

Denso to build a new plant in Iwate, Japan

EEinews

Denso announced its decision to build a new plant by Denso Iwate to enhance competitiveness of Denso Group and toward realization of domestic manufacturing in Japan. Aside the increasing the production capacity of semiconductor wafer operated by Denso Iwate, the factory is planned to be responsible for manufacturing semiconductor sensor and meters for automobile. The […]

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *