Asahi Kasei, a major chemical manufacturer, said that it would take time to restart the factory in the factory fire of a group company that manufactures semiconductors in Miyazaki Prefecture, which occurred in October last year, and decided to substitute production for multiple semiconductor manufacturers. I made it clear that I was asking.

In October last year, a fire broke out at the Asahi Kasei Electronics factory in Nobeoka City, Miyazaki Prefecture, and it has been unable to produce semiconductors for domestic automobile parts manufacturers and audio equipment manufacturers.



Regarding this, the parent company Asahi Kasei said at an online press conference on the 9th that it would take time to restart the factory because investigations on the cause of the fire are continuing, and asked multiple semiconductor manufacturers for alternative production. I made it clear that I am.



Regarding this, semiconductor giant Renesas Electronics has decided to produce the same semiconductor instead.



In addition, Asahi Kasei posted an extraordinary loss of 11.6 billion yen due to this factory fire, and revised the final profit for the entire group for this year from 87 billion yen to 71 billion yen. , Showed a 31% decrease from the previous year.



At a press conference, Vice President Yutaka Shibata said, "I would like to deeply apologize for causing a great deal of concern and inconvenience to everyone involved in the factory fire. I want to do my best. "