epson lcd panel tauschen made in china

TOKYO, Nov 15 Asia Pulse - Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices Corp., a joint venture between Sanyo Electric Co. (TSE:6764) and Seiko Epson Corp. (TSE:6724), will move part of its production of color LCD panels from Nagano Prefecture to Suzhou, China , company sources said.

Most of the displays made in Suzhou will be STN (super twist nematic) panels for use in cell phones sold overseas. Integrated production will be carried out in China to enhance efficiency.

It’s quite a distance from deciding your company has no future in manufacturing LCD projectors to be becoming the global market leader, but it’s a distance Epson has travelled in the space of two decades, as I"ve been discovering on a visit to the company"s massive production facility here in China.

Epson brought its first LCD projector, the VPJ-700, to market in January 1989 – and at the time, its 320x220-pixel resolution more than justified a cost of almost $6000. It was July 1991’s VPJ-2000 that almost ruined the company’s faith in the technology’s saleability, though – here was a projector with a resolution of 480x440px, weighing almost 11 kilos and costing the thick end of $11,000 (more than twice the price the company had originally targeted).

Sales were disastrous: around 10% of what Epson had (conservatively, it thought) predicted. The VPJ-2000 fiasco saw Epson’s development of LCD projectors pretty much abandoned – the entire department was reduced to just six men.

It sold like gangbusters, and five years later Epson was the global market leader in business and domestic projectors – a position it’s yet to relinquish. It’s a market that’s grown by at least 10% every year since 2004.

The company has consolidated its position thanks to a lot of targeted investment, not least of which is Epson Engineering (Shenzhen) Limited. ESL is the largest projector manufacturing plant in the world, with over 5000 staff involved in the production of business and domestic projectors.

Epson Japan is responsible for design and development, but ESL handles all aspects of manufacture and assembly – every component of every Epson projector (and there’s quite a range) is built at ESL.

Epson is the only manufacturer in the world to develop and construct both the LCD panels and the lamps its projectors use, and ESL (which started production in 2002) is responsible for some of the more prodigious production figures you’re ever likely to read.

The bulk of the products are for the commercial market – there isn’t an office or a school the world over that doesn’t have need of a projector at some point – but Epson is determined to expand consumer demand for its products.

You may be interested in the location(s), if the projectors are ethically made, or want to know more about Epson. To learn about these, you’ll need to know where Epson projectors are made.

Unlike many other companies, Epson manufactures all the components for their projectors in one place! This makes learning the answer easy and convenient.

The development, designing, and specifications for all Epson projectors are done by Epson Japan; all of the manufacturing is done by Epson Engineering Shenzhen Limited, (ESL).