JX Nippon Mining & Metals to Restart Sputtering Target Material Production in April

JX Nippon Mining & Metals announced on Monday the firm restarts productive facilities for sputtering target materials used in liquid crystal panel production in Isohara works, Ibaraki, Japan in mid April. The product shipment is expected to restart in late May. The operation would return to full in mid August

Isohara works will also restart production of sputtering target materials for semiconductors and data storage medias in early April. Isohara processing plant and Hitachi processing plant already restarted operations last week.