Hamamatsu’s new factory to meet the demand of the opto-semiconductor device market

Mainly used for semiconductor manufacturing, testing equipment and LiDAR-related devices, it will support the expanding sales demands.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the new factory building is scheduled to be held on March 1, 2023, and the new factory building will be completed in March, 2025.

Hamamatsu has been supplying opto-semiconductor products for a broad range of fields including medical, industrial and automotive applications. In recent years, demand for image sensors used in semiconductor manufacturing and testing equipment has continued to grow, and since photodiodes for the automotive LiDAR market is also expected to expand, we anticipate a constant sales increase in the future.

Construction of the new factory building will expand production space for image sensors and photodiodes to meet an ever-increasing product demand. This new building will connect to the two existing factory buildings to integrate the clean rooms at the Shingai Factory into one area space. This will allow us to streamline the movement of people and materials to improve production efficiency as well as automate the manufacturing process and save labour through digital transformation.

The third Shingai factory building is designed to be highly resistant to natural disasters by integrating earthquake and flood countermeasures into its structure in conformance with its business continuity planning.

Its proactive design features include eco-friendly measures such as heat-insulating structures and solar power generation systems. Construction of this new factory building will complete our major capital investments at the Shingai Factory site.

Since demand for opto-semiconductors is widely expected to see future growth, it is planned to construct another factory building at the main factory site for wafer pre-processing within the next three years.

Here it is expected to establish a new manufacturing process for 8” diameter silicon wafers with a larger area than conventional 6” diameter waters. The aim is to double the sales of opto-semiconductor business in 10 years by expanding the post-processing capacity and further upgrading the production system through various business approaches including this investment.