Canon to Open New 5,000-Worker Plant In the Philippines

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    <p><strong><font size=”5″>Canon to Open New 5,000-Worker Plant In the </font></strong><span class=”st”> <font size=”5″><strong>Philippines </strong></font></span><font size=”5″><strong> </strong></font></p>
    <p>DOLE welcomes Canon Group’s 5,000-worker manufacturing facility in Batangas</p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″><strong>January 2013, press release from the Department of Labor and Employment</strong></font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>Saying that the manufacturing sector produces the “hard jobs” that could lead to decent and productive work, Secretary of Labor and Employment Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday welcomed the plan of Japan’s Canon Group to expand its 22-year operation in the Philippines by putting up a manufacturing facility at the First Philippine Industrial Park in Tanauan City, Batangas. It is expected, when fully operational, to employ 5,000 workers.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>Soichiro Tabe, President of Canon Information Technologies, Inc., or ci-tech, said the decision of Canon Group to expand further in the country was prompted by the fact that Filipino workers are among the best in the world, the country’s strategic location, suitable business environment, and the Filipinos’ hospitality and attitude.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>“I am pleased with this piece of good news,” Baldoz said to Tabe during a 30-minute meeting at the Office of the Secretary at the DOLE in Intramuros, Manila.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>“Your expansion into manufacturing is a seal of approval for the country’s economic vibrancy and attests to the resurgent investors’ confidence in the Philippines,” Baldoz said.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>“It is, indeed, in the manufacturing sector where the real ‘hard jobs’ are and it is in investors like the Canon Group that our workers pin their hopes for decent and productive employment,” she added.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>Tabe, together with Rolando P. Martinez, ci-tech Vice President for General Administration and Cezar M. Gatmaytan Jr., ci-tech Vice President for Engineering, met with Baldoz to inform her of the Canon Group’s start of operation of Canon Business Machines (Philippines), Inc. in the Tanauan City industrial zone.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>According to Tabe, CBMP will manufacture laser printers, accessories, and parts of Canon cameras and other products.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>Another Canon subsidiary, Canon IT Solutions (Philippines), Inc. (CITSP) will also start to operate this year for Canon’s system integration needs.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>This will bring to four the Canon companies operating in the country, of which ci-tech is the longest-operating.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>ci-tech, established in August 1991, is Canon Group’s largest overseas research and development subsidiary. It develops products and technologies in images, network, and communications systems, and designs, develops, and tests software and hardware. All of ci-tech’s products are for export. It has over 500 employees.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>The other subsidiary, established in April 1997, is Canon Marketing (Philippines), Inc. (CMP), which is into sales and after-sales services and marketing.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>Under the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III, the country’s manufacturing industry has regained its premier position as a frontrunner in delivering the country’s economic growth and competitiveness.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>In 2012, based on the Labor Force Survey, employment in the industry sector continued to expand at a rate of more than four percent since July 2011. Industry share to total employment has gone up over the period 2010 to 2012, increasing from 14.9 percent (5.048 million) in July 2010 to 15.2 percent (5.710 million) in October 2012.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>Employment in manufacturing, the biggest subsector in industry, stood at 3.003 million in July 2010. This rose to 3.130 million in October 2012, or an increase of 127,000.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>“The DOLE, through its Project Jobs Fit: 2020 Vision study, has identified manufacturing as one of the Philippines’s key employment generators [KEGS]. This is complemented by the Joint Foreign Chambers’s inclusion of the same sector as one of the country’s ‘seven big industry winners,’” said Baldoz, who also bared that the National Economic Development Authority, Department of Trade and Industry, Board of Investments, and the DOLE are collaborating towards the development of a roadmap for the manufacturing industry and an industrial master plan for the Philippines, in cooperation with labor, academe, civil society, and other stakeholders.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>She assured the Canon Group, through Tabe, that the DOLE is ready to listen and assist investors about their concerns as they operate their businesses in the Philippines.</font></p>
    <p style=”text-align: justify;”><font size=”4″>“I am truly heartened by your company’s decision to expand your operation in the Philippines. I assure you that industrial peace, decent work, and social protection are pillars of the country’s competitiveness in pursuit of theoverarching goal enunciated by President Benigno S. Aquino III, in his 22-point labor and employment agenda, to invest in our country’s top resource, our human resource, to make us more competitive and employable while promoting industrial peace based on social justice,” Baldoz told Tabe.</font><strong><br />
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