Sharp Kameyama plant
The world’s most advanced production base for integrated manufacture of large LCD TVsSharp Kameyama plant Image
The Kameyama Plant (Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is Sharp’s latest manufacturing facility for LCD TVs. With this plant, Sharp aims to create a business model that serves as the ultimate example of economic efficiency, social mindedness and environmental conservation.
Integrating the Entire LCD TV Production Process
The plant combines our vast experience and knowledge in R&D and mass production — 50 years of TV and 30 years of LCD — into a world-first, cutting-edge facility that carries out highly efficient integrated production of LCD TVs, from the manufacture of LCD panels to the assembly of final products. With a site area of about 330,000 m2, the plant’s high-efficiency production lines eliminate wasted work and shorten production lead-time. Integrating the Entire LCD TV Production Process Image
World’s Largest Mother Glass
The plant produces the world’s first* large mother glass substrates for
LCD panels. Yield per 1,500 x 1,800 mm substrate is six 37-inch wide
format LCD panels. This makes possible production of models with even
larger screen size and reduces production time and costs, responding to
a significantly expanding large-screen LCD TV market.
World’s Largest Mother Glass Image
Environmentally Conscious
The Kameyama Plant has also been designed as a Super Green Factory, giving maximum consideration for the environment. Eliminating the transport of LCD panels between different plants means less packaging material is needed and less CO2 and nitrogen dioxide are emitted from transport vehicles. Sharp uses its existing environmental technologies as well as adding new technologies to dramatically reduce the burden on the environment.
1) Installation of Cogeneration System Using LNG
  A cogeneration system supplies the plant with about one third of its annual electricity and utilises waste heat for air conditioning. This reduces CO2 emissions by about 40% of the current level. LNG (liquefied natural gas) is supplied through pipelines, eliminating the need for tanker truck transportation.
2) Installation of a Solar Power Generation System
  The wall of the plant has about 600 photovoltaic modules.
3) 100% Water Recycling in the Production Process
  The plant collects all the wastewater from the production process (max. 9,000 tons a day) and recycles it with water purification techniques using microorganism treatment.
4) Zero Discharge to Landfills
  For process waste as well, the plant is designed to achieve zero discharge to landfill, by reducing discharge and reusing and recycling as much waste as possible with diverse technologies and know-how.
Plant Overview
Site area: Approx. 330,000 m2
Total floor area: Approx. 243,800 m2
Buildings: Large LCD plant,
large LCD TV plant,
administration building, etc.
Start of operations: January 2004
Large LCD Plant
Total floor area: Approx. 117,700 m2
Mother glass size: 1,500 x 1,800 mm
(eight 32-inch wide-format LCDs from each mother glass)
Large LCD TV Plant
Total floor area: Approx. 77,200 m2
Products: 25-inch and larger LCD TVs
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