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Sharp Focuses on Manufacturing

A $9 Billion Plant In Japan Will Make LCD, Solar Panels

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In an old seaport city near its Osaka headquarters, Sharp Corp. is building a $9 billion factory complex the size of 32 baseball stadiums to make liquid-crystal-display panels and solar panels. The complex, which Sharp broke ground last November, will be the world's largest LCD and next-generation solar panel plant when it is ready sometime in the next fiscal year, ending March 2010. It will house most of its major suppliers on the same premises. Sharp itself will invest about $4.3 billion.

While Apple Inc. is leading a trend in the electronics industry to outsource hardware manufacturing and focus on ...