SUBIC BAY

Japanese tech firm opens Subic R&D center
Mar 12, 2019

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT — Japanese technology firm Sanyo Denki Philippines, Inc. has opened a research and product development facility in this free port, promising to deliver highly-reliable and high-performance products to its global network of affiliates and customers.
 
The firm, which produces cooling, power and servo systems at the Subic Techno Park here, inaugurated the Sanyo Denki Technology Center (SDP-TC) last week, an expansion project for the company that was established here in 2000.
 
Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Chairman and Administrator Wilma T. Eisma, who graced the inauguration, remarked that Sanyo Denki’s new project “will bring the future of technology to Subic.”
 
She said that aside from the fact that Sanyo Denki would be hiring more local workers, the technology transfer would again put Filipino workers on top of the game. “Subic would benefit more from the transfer of knowledge and skills,” she added.
 
Sanyo Denki Philippines, Inc., which is engaged in the manufacture of uninterrupted power system (UPS), cooling fans, servo amplifiers and stepping motors, operates three factories in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
 
With investments of $121.97 million, it employs 3,883 workers and was listed as the second top exporter in Subic in 2018 with freight-on-board (FOB) value of $178.65 million.
 
Its Subic operations include highly efficient automated production lines such as the surface mount technology (SMT), and a department for developing and designing cooling fans.
 
Sanyo Denki Philippines (SDP) chief executive officer and president Koichi Uchibori said the newly-built Technology Center will serve as the hub of product development for the Sanyo Denki Group of Companies here in the Philippines.
 
He said the new facility was built to serve as the research center for the Sanyo Denki’s  Design Division in preparation for the expansion of the firm’s Design Department.
 
The company reportedly plans to increase the number of design engineers who will handle new product development projects in the future. With more design engineers, the firm expects that more new product development projects could be completed.

SDP senior executive operating officer Kauro Tamura said the SDP-TC will consolidate the technology development base for its three design departments that respectively tackle fan design, servo design, and power design.

SDP design division supervisor Michiro Watanabe explained that Sanyo Denki’s efforts to enhance its operations in Subic has resulted in the establishment of the SDP-TC, which is the third building it has put up here since 2000.
 
“This comfortable work space will allow us to go on with the business, with the combined efforts of the Japanese management and the Filipino staff, to deliver world-class products with higher performance and higher quality,” Watanabe also said.

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