Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) recently held a ceremony in Singapore to celebrate the official opening of its new hard disk (HD) media plant. The new plant, under construction since December 2005, has recently been completed. This is the fourth HD media plant for the Showa Denko Group, with plants in Singapore, Chiba (Japan) and Taiwan.

At the new plant in Singapore, the company installed the first production line within a clean room based on our innovative perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. The plant will be in full operation early next year.

In response to growing demand, the company is planning to increase the production capacity at the new plant in a timely manner. The Group’s total hard disk media production capacity will be increased from 15.75 million disks per month at present to 24 million disks per month by the end of 2008.

Capital investment in the new plant, including the construction of the building and the clean room as well as future expansions, will total \60 billion.

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