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To: StanX Long who wrote (61710)	3/8/2002 12:34:33 AM
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Hannstar Plans to Build Taiwan Flat-Panel Plant to Meet Demand By Alan Patterson quote.bloomberg.com Taipei, March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Hannstar Display Corp., one of Taiwan's six makers of flat-panel displays for notebook computers, said it may build new a plant in Taiwan to meet rising demand after rivals announced similar plans. ``We have some plan, but it hasn't been approved by the board,'' spokesman Alex Tsai said, without giving details. The NT$40 billion ($1.1 billion) plant will make larger displays than similar factories that Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Philips LCD Co. are building in South Korea, the DigiTimes Web site said, without citing sources. Flat-panel makers are expanding capacity as demand rebounds for notebook computers and monitors that use the displays. Samsung, the world's biggest supplier, and LG Philips, its nearest rival, are building so-called fifth-generation plants that will make larger glass sheets from which the screens are cut, helping increase unit production and paring cost.