OSAKA, Japan-Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., maker of Panasonic-brand electronics is building the world's largest plasma display panel (PDP) plant in Amagasaki, Japan.
At a cost of $1.6 billion, the plant will have a production capacity of 6 million panels per year, giving Panasonic the largest PDP production capacity in the world. The new plant will be Panasonic's fifth PDP manufacturing facility.