OREANDA-NEWS. March 04, 2011. An accidental fire has destroyed construction materials at TEL’s new Miyagi plant in Taiwa-cho, Miyagi Prefecture. While the extent of the fire damage was limited, Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) has deemed it necessary to postpone the beginning of operations at the production building, originally scheduled for April 2011, in order to ensure a flawless production environment.

To minimize the effect of this postponement, TEL will maintain the current production line at Tokyo Electron AT Limited’s Miyagi Plant (Matsushima-machi) and expand the production areas of the Yamanashi Plants (Nirasaki City). Through these actions, TEL will ensure that there will be no impact on product delivery schedules.

The development and office buildings are still scheduled to begin operation in April as initially planned. However, the completion ceremony in honor of the new plant will be postponed until a new date for commencing operations at the production building is determined.