Canon to Build Toner Cartridge Plant in Northern Japan
Tokyo, Sept 2007 – Canon Inc.said Monday it will spend some 80 billion yen to build a toner cartridge plant in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan.The new plant will be built on a 32,000-square-meter plot adjacent to an existing factory run by the company’s Canon Precision Inc. unit.Construction of the plant will begin in November with operations set to begin in August next year. The company did not disclose the size of output.The new plant will hire about 1,000 workers by the end of 2009.