Kyocera opened its Nagasaki Isahaya Plant on September 1, 2026, with an opening ceremony planned for spring 2027. The first building is a six-story steel-frame structure with 80,799 sqm of floor area on a 150,000 sqm site, producing fine ceramic components and semiconductor packages; Kyocera plans approximately JPY 68 billion in investment through fiscal 2028 and targets JPY 25 billion in annual sales from the plant from fiscal 2030.
Company
Kyocera Corporation
Investment
¥68B total planned through FY2028
Location
Nagasaki, Isahaya
Capacity
150,000 sqm site area; 80,799 sqm floor area (Building 1); target JPY 25 billion/year sales from FY2030
Nippon Shikizai, a Japanese cosmetics ODM/OEM manufacturer, held the opening ceremony for its newly acquired Komoro factory in Nagano Prefecture. The facility handles filling, packaging and finishing for makeup products such as mascara and eye shadow, and began operations on September 3, 2026.
Ishihara Sangyo completed and held the ceremony for a new Blue Gene blue orchid development and production facility at its Yokkaichi Plant on August 26, 2026. The facility comprises a sterile culture room for propagating seedlings, a high-temperature greenhouse for cultivation and a low-temperature greenhouse for inducing flowering, enabling integrated in-house development and stable supply of high-quality flask seedlings.
Fujifilm Business Innovation began full-scale operation of its Circular Manufacturing Center in Laguna, Philippines, which it opened in July 2025 to refurbish used multifunction printers collected across the Asia-Pacific region. The facility started shipping refurbished ApeosPort-VII C R series machines on July 30 and has an exclusive area of approximately 500 sqm.
Kyowa Industry plans to build a new factory at its headquarters site in Komatsu, Ishikawa. The project has a total planned investment of ¥2 billion and is scheduled for completion in October 2027; the disclosure does not specify the production capacity or construction start date.
Other ManufacturingColoradoUnder construction¥12.1B
Astroscale U.S. Inc. plans to invest JPY 12.095 billion in the LEXI-P life-extension service satellite at its U.S. headquarters and factory in Colorado. The project began in 2025 and is scheduled for completion in 2028, funded with internal resources.