Glass suppliers cannot match surging TV demand

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Color TV manufacturers are faced with a shortage of glass bulbs for the larger TV screen sizes that they are producing. Glass manufacturers are predicting that supplies of glass bulbs for the sets may fall 5% short of global demand despite the 8% increase in production by leading companies. The global output of color TV is expected to exceed 140 million units in FY2000 which represents an increase of 7% to 8% from FY1999. Except for Nippon Electric Glass and Asahi Glass, other manufacturers are not planning on raising their production of glass bulbs.

Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing, Glass for Light Bulbs

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Information hunger feeds demand for printers, drives

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Statistics from the Japan Electronic Industry Development Assn showed an increase in global and domestic shipments of computer peripheral products in 1999. During the year shipments of LCD monitors to all markets reached 4.69 million units. As for printers, Japanese manufacturers shipped 73 million units worldwide. Japan's global shipments of hard disk drives totaled 165.77 million units, while shipments of CD-ROM optical disk drives reached 96.8 million units.

Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Computer Auxiliary Equip

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Mitsubishi eyes Euro turf for medical-, private-use printers

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Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Japan, considers Europe to be a considerably promising market for photo and image printers. The company has focused its European marketing strategies on printer sales, with the sales mix being split between evenly digital color printers and video copy processors, both of which use sublimation dye transfer techniques. Digital color printers from Mitsubishi are functionally versatile and range from cabinet-sizes to A6-sized formats.

Marketing procedures, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Computer Input-Output Eqp NEC

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