South Korea Japan overwhelming August Samsung plasma panel production record

Announced Samsung SDI before the plasma panel last month it produced a record reached 215000. Further consolidate the company's leading position in the global plasma panel market.

Samsung SDI company officials said that in the world of all plasma display panel manufacturers, Samsung SDI produced plasma display panels for the first time exceeded 200 thousand monthly production. Samsung SDI company Samsung also revealed that before the end of next year, the company's goal is to become the world's biggest manufacturer of digital tv.

Samsung digital media department chief executive Choi Gee-sung held in Berlin International Broadcasting exhibition appliances (IFA) news conference said: "the next year in the digital TV market, we will become the leading manufacturer of". Digital TV includes plasma TV, LCD TV, rear projection TV and CRT tv. Compared with the display of liquid crystal filled between two layers of glass, the plasma display is filled with gas. Despite the high energy consumption and low resolution of the plasma display, it is mainly used for more than 40 inches large screen tv.

Samsung Electronics is the world's largest manufacturer of memory chips. Gee-sung said: "four years ago, Samsung Electronics Companies in the consumer electronics show in the exhibition area of only 495 square meters, but has now expanded to 4950 square meters, to expand the exhibition area that Samsung position in the European market is improving".

Samsung SDI officials believe that production in August this year, an increase of 139% over the year was mainly due to the increase in production capacity, strong growth in the volume of business and accurate market expectations of various customers in July. He said: "since 2001, we began to mass production of plasma panels since the record breaking success is an important milestone in the. This is largely due to the adoption of new technologies to improve productivity".

Samsung SDI officials pointed out that the company in March this year to reach 150 thousand yuan per month after the production, only in the past 5 months to record production. Compared with the same period last year, the company's sales increased by 153% to reach $2 million 200 thousand. In the global plasma display panel market, Samsung SDI's market share rose from 31% to August in the first half of the year to $34%.

Industry analysts said that in the global plasma display panel market, South Korea's Samsung SDI and LG is a leading manufacturer, is expected this year, their global market share will reach 64%. In contrast, Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Company and Hitachi - Fujitsu plasma display the company's market share will drop to 35%. Last year, South Korea's plasma display panel in the global share of 41.9%, while the Japanese manufacturers market share of $55.7%. Industry analysts said the South Korean plasma display industry is expected to continue strong growth until 2010. 2006 plasma display industry sales revenue will reach $47 billion in 2007 will wait until $4 billion 300 million. 2008 will reach $57 billion 700 million in 2009 to reach $64 billion in 2010 reached $71 billion 100 million.