Japan’s semiconductor maker Renesas Electronics (Renesas Electronics) main factory fire in March, it is now known that the clean room has been successfully rebuilt to complete, there is a chance to restart the production line in accordance with the original target on the 19th of this month, and spell the end of June to resume normal shipments. Reuters
The main factory of Renesas Electronics, a major Japanese semiconductor manufacturer, had a fire in March, and it is now known that the clean room has been successfully rebuilt, and there is a chance that the production line will restart on the 19th of this month according to the original target, and the normal shipments will be resumed at the end of June.
Renesas main factory “Naka factory” fire on March 19, part of the production line has been stopped. The fire did not cause casualties, the fire was extinguished after about 5 hours and 30 minutes.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported yesterday that Renesas said that the clean room for the production of semiconductors in the Naka factory has been rebuilt and is expected to restart semiconductor production by April 19, one month after the fire, in accordance with the target announced earlier.
As for the production capacity to return to the level before the fire, about 100 days after the fire, the next can ensure that the manufacturing equipment will become the focus.
In the semiconductor process, because of the need to create circuits on silicon wafers, etc., a clean room with high purity is one of the production requirements. Due to the Naka factory fire, causing the first floor clean room about 5% of the range, about 600 square meters of factory area burned, the factory interior also because of black smoke stained.
Renesas continues to rebuild after the fire with the assistance of customers and other staff, and completed decontamination-related operations at around 9:00 p.m. on the 9th of this month.
If all goes well, Renesas shipments should be able to return to past levels by the end of June. Next, depending on the progress of the delivery of manufacturing equipment that must be purchased again because of the fire, will affect the speed of recovery of future production and shipments.
By the rapid recovery of demand under the epidemic, and the northern United States by the cold spell to stop production and other effects, resulting in a serious supply and demand for semiconductors. And in the automotive market has a high market share of Renesas to reduce the supply, the car manufacturers production caused a great impact.
Japan Nomura Securities said that the impact of the fire, global automakers from April to June, the number of cars produced, may be reduced by about 1.6 million units.
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