{"id":8990,"date":"2015-05-22T20:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=8990"},"modified":"2015-05-22T20:04:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:04:29","slug":"epson-marks-milestones-eyes-further-growth-in-phl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/05\/22\/epson-marks-milestones-eyes-further-growth-in-phl\/","title":{"rendered":"EPSON marks milestones, eyes further growth in Phl"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUSUANGA, PALAWAN \u2013 Epson has announced that it is eyeing to further grow in the Philippines, with a plan to invest P4.7 billion to build a new factory that will be completed by 2017. The new plant is being eyed to increase the company\u2019s inkjet printer and 3LCD projector production volumes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Epson Precision (Philippines) Inc., with the blue area showing the planned site of the new plant<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

According to Toshimitsu Tanaka, the company\u2019s president and country manager, when the new plant opens, it will be Epson\u2019s biggest factory worldwide.<\/p>\n

This move is a reflection of the company\u2019s continued growth in the country, as it marked 2014 as a \u201cremarkable year by capturing the leadership position in volume and market share for inkjet printers,\u201d said Tanaka.<\/p>\n

Tanaka added that the company is projecting a 10% year-on-year profit increase in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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EPSON’s additional investment\u00a0is a reflection of the company\u2019s continued growth in the country, as it marked 2014 as a \u201cremarkable year by capturing the leadership position in volume and market share for inkjet printers,\u201d said Toshimitsu Tanaka.<\/p><\/div>\n

Epson currently has a plant in Lima Technology Center, Lipa City, Batangas, established in 1994. As of end-2014, the plant has approximately 12,500 employees. The new facilities will be constructed inside the existing site; and it is expected to increase the number of workers to over 20,000.<\/p>\n

Epson’s current lineup ranges from inkjet printers, printing systems and 3LCD projectors to industrial robots, smart glasses and sensing systems and is based on original compact, energy-saving, and high-precision technologies. Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group comprises more than 72,000 employees in 94 companies around the world.<\/p>\n

Epson\u2019s corporate presence in the Philippines started in 1998. It now has a network of 77 Authorized Service Centers nationwide with more than 200 dealers and more than 800 shops across the country.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit <\/em>http:\/\/global.epson.com\/<\/em><\/a>; or <\/em>http:\/\/www.epson.com.ph<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Epson has announced that it is eyeing to further grow in the Philippines, with a plan to invest P4.7 billion to build a new factory that will be completed by 2017. The new plant is being eyed to increase the company\u2019s inkjet printer and 3LCD projector production volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[563,835,2200,564,3050,3049],"class_list":["post-8990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-epson","tag-epson-connect","tag-epson-philippines","tag-epson-precision-philippines-inc","tag-fusion-6","tag-toshimitsu-tanaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}