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Fujifilm boosts LCD film operations

December 4, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 49


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Fujifilm, the dominant producer of cellulose triacetate film, a product vital to the liquid-crystal display (LCD) industry, will spend $205 million to boost capacity. The company says it will build a plant and R&D center at its Ashigara site near Tokyo by April 2008. The additional material will support manufacturers of large television sets that make use of thin-film transistor LCD technology. Cellulose triacetate and polyvinyl alcohol films are the two main materials used to manufacture the polarizers that are critical components of such LCDs.

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