LG - PHILPS investment Taiwan color crystal

It is reported that PHILPS LG- (LPL) will invest in Taiwan HannStar NT $3 billion 170 million, get 3.42% stake in color crystal. Choi recently said, LPL funds are in place. As for the color crystal and the LPL cooperation, will be in line with the main initial capacity, in addition, in the use of funds, the expected color crystal will be used for equipment in the size of the panel's capital expenditures, and actively looking for investment partners LED.

By the end of 2007 LPL announced invested 3 billion 170 million yuan to obtain color crystal, color crystal 3.42% stake, but also become the third largest shareholder of Caijing, the proportion of shares after huaxinlihua 7%, Winbond 5%, also led the market for coke may be unwound color crystal, LPL sold to Lenovo, in this regard, Caijing general manager Zhou Dinghui in the day before that said, LPL shares mainly focus on financial investment, the two sides will also cooperate with the cooperation of production, for the next stage of development, is to be established after the tacit cooperation talk.

After the use of color crystal obtained 3 billion 170 million yuan of funds, because the color crystal actively planning the 5 line part of the production transferred to the size, the second half is expected to have more than 2 investment amount of the size of the panel supply, the 5 generation production line in size, the number will increase significantly, so must purchase related equipment.

In addition, in size after section of the module of investment, the proportion of homemade Caijing plans to maintain 2/3, so the capacity of Nanjing module factory still needs to be improved, color crystal is expected in 2008 capital expenditure of about 2 billion 500 million yuan, will be used to increase the size of the panel and module production equipment.

In addition, because the panel size is almost all adopt the LED backlight module, 2008 will be listed as the key size of color crystal products, also attaches great importance to vertical integration and LED suppliers, Caijing recently also said that at present there are 1~2 possible partners under negotiation, is expected to LPL funds, there are to enrich the color crystal investment strength.

In conjunction with LPL capacity, the 5 generation line of colorful crystal glass substrate has a large size, cutting 17W, 19 inch display products, better efficiency, so the color crystal will supply the LPL 17W, a 19 inch panel, in addition, LPL will supply 32 inch color crystal panel, so that both the production capacity can be more and more specialization with benefits.

Source: bubble network