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Originally Posted by gary;698785The wafers form the base material for semiconductor manufacturer and are at the
heart of every integrated circuit.
Sumitomo epoxy resin plant [/URL
in Japan burnt down. At the time,
this one plant had been producing 60% of the world's epoxy resin for
integrated circuit packaging. The event lead to supply chain shortages in the
electronic industry for quite some time.
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I suspect that there will be similar stories coming out soon. There are many things (and parts of things) still made in Japan many of which are used in China to make other stuff...
With respect to the second part of your post...that is my company. Some of that production has moved outside of Japan. In addition to many Agriculture and Household/Mosquito Pesticides we make a lot of IT materials too...in particular stuff that makes the "i" gear and related mobile phones. We also makes lots of other stuff. As of this morning our facilities were still operational but logistics snarls are the next big headache...manufactured materials don't do much good if you can't get them shipped from the factory.