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Introducing to Society the Training Programs Created and Countermeasures Learned Following the Mid-Niigata Earthquake

On October 23rd, 2004, one of the most productive of the SANYO Semiconductor Group factories, the former Niigata SANYO Electronics Co., Ltd. (currently the SANYO Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Niigata Plant) took a direct hit during The Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake and all production was halted. Production was resumed two months later after frantic recovery activities, and the line was then revamped in July of the following year to operate under a new production system.

The lessons learned from this unprecedented and massive earthquake have been used in training programs and suggested damage-prevention measures, and have been distributed not only throughout the entire SANYO Group but also to a wide section of society through lectures, cooperation with journalists and other means.

On November 2005, one year after the earthquake, Nikkei Microdevices magazine, dedicated to semiconductor technology and issued by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., included a 15-page report on the damage received during the earthquake and the countermeasures established.
We cooperated fully with the magazine while the story was being researched, providing many photographs and detailed explanations on conditions.


Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.,
Nikkei Microdevices, November 2005

We tried to comply with as many requests for lectures as we could so that we could introduce to people our experiences during the earthquake and the countermeasures we established afterwards.

So far we have taken part in a total of 58 lectures and information-exchange meetings (35 for private corporations and 23 for various cooperatives and organizations as of the end of October 2007).

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