KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nidec Corporation (NYSE:NJ) (the "Company") announced today the current status of its manufacturing operations in areas affected by the recent flooding in Thailand.
Nidec Component Technology (Thailand) Co., Ltd. resumed operations in Bang Pa-In on December 8. As of today, all of the ten factories of the Company and its subsidiaries in the affected areas are in operation at either their own facilities or alternative locations. We will continue our efforts to further improve the utilization of the factories whose operations have resumed and to bring the Company's other flood-stricken factories back into operation to the earliest extent possible.
The exact amount of damage and the effect of the floods on the Company's performance are being assessed currently. We will continue to report on any actual or potential impact on the Company's business performance in a prompt manner.
| Company | Factory | Location | Products | Status |
| Rangsit | Pathumthani Province | Operations resumed on Oct. 25. | ||
| Nidec Electronics | Bangkadi | Bangkadi Industrial Park, | Hard disk drive | Alternative production started on |
| (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | Pathumthani Province | ("HDD") motors | Nov. 12 at a leased factory in Rayong Province. | |
| Rojana | Rojana Industrial Park, | Operations resumed on Dec. 1. | ||
| Ayutthaya Province | ||||
| Rojana | Rojana Industrial Park, | HDD motor | Operations resumed on Nov. 21. | |
| Nidec Precision | Ayutthaya Province | components | ||
| (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | Ayutthaya | Wangnoi District, | Operations resumed on Nov. 4. | |
| Ayutthaya Province | ||||
| Saraburi | SIL Industrial Land, | No damages confirmed and | ||
| Nidec Component | Saraburi Province | HDD base plates | operations remain normal. | |
| Technology (Thailand) | Bang Pa-In | Bang Pa-In Industrial | Operations resumed on Dec. 8. | |
| Co., Ltd. | Estate, Ayutthaya | |||
| Province | ||||
| Nidec Shibaura | ― | Bangkadi Industrial Park, | Home appliance | Alternative production underway at |
| Electronics (Thailand) | Pathumthani Province | motors | Nidec Shibaura (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. | |
| Co., Ltd. | in China. | |||
| ― | Nava Nakorn Industrial | Alternative production, which started | ||
| Nidec Copal (Thailand) | Estate, Pathumthani | Camera shutters; | on Nov. 12 at a leased factory in | |
| Co., Ltd. | Province | Lens units | Uthai Thani Province, is now | |
| underway at additional locations in | ||||
| and around Thailand. | ||||
| Nidec-Read (Thailand) | ― | Chachoengsao Province | Inspection | No damages confirmed and |
| Co., Ltd. | fixtures | operations remain normal. | ||
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