Tagged With "Foxconn of Taiwan"
Comment
Re: Imaging Channel, Let's Become the Innovation Channel!!
Geo-strategic picture. Just great, Ray!
Comment
Re: Imaging Channel, Let's Become the Innovation Channel!!
Ray Good stuff, however when discussing imaging (which is a wide portfolio of devices), everyone seems to forget about the huge growth of niche imaging devices. Those devices include wide format, grand wide format, label presses, and envelope presses. While in Las Vegas in the spring of this year, I was able to attend the ISA Sign Expo. I've been to a lot of events in the past year and the ISA was the largest event I every attended. Two hundred thousand square feet of convention space with...
Reply
Re: Foxconn Lowering Offer for Japan's Sharp
I mentioned this three weeks ago when I saw the draw back from Foxconn. Sharp has no other alternative move but to accept whatever offer comes it's way. Huge loans are due April 1st to the Japanese banks. Wonder if Gou will stay with the same monetary commitment and get all of Sharp or lower the amount and stay with the same percentage from the original deal. If the offer is less, than Sharp will have to re work it's comeback plan, and I'm sure that comeback plan will affect many of the...
Reply
Re: Foxconn Lowering Offer for Japan's Sharp
Article from last night stated that since Foxconn, is offering 900 million less because of debt and year end financials that Samsung is ready to make a last minute offer for Sharp. This is crazy!
Reply
Re: Discussion about Sharp Corp & Possible Foxconn Take Over
I don't care how much the copier division makes as far as profitability goes when that division is probably a small percentage of the overall company. My guess is it will go up for sale at some point. My bet would be to Samsung. I also don't see how that division is profitable based on what I see down the street. I kind of believe it about as much as I believed Ricoh in the dealer meeting a few years ago saying "regardless of the rumors your hear, the direct operations are profitable." From...
Reply
Re: New Ricoh MP C2011SP A3 Color MFP??
The MP C2011SP is a exclusive model for Taiwan/China/European Union. There is references to this model in MP C2003/ MPC2503 service/parts manual. The Ricoh Product code for that model is D237. The D176 (MPC2003) & D177 (MPC2503) are for US. With all that said....That doesn't mean Ricoh could change their mind and release that model in the US. But from the manual, it would look redundant to current gen equivalent models. I'll keep my eye open.
Reply
Re: Who would have thought that Canon, Ricoh, Sharp & Samsung would..
Consolidation is inevitable. The successful will ultimately digest the not-so-successful.
Reply
Re: Who would have thought that Canon, Ricoh, Sharp & Samsung would..
I think Samsung buys Sharp and I do think Xerox will be sold off to someone but I don't know who that would be. I could see another IKON scenario between Canon and Ricoh trying to buy Xerox to get all their dealers back.
Reply
Re: Foxconn, Sharp Reportedly Set To Sign Takeover Deal March 31
with the original deal for $4.3 billion US dollars. Sharp USA reported that 45 million was to go to the North American market for building the business imaging division. In a document from Sharp the 45 million. Since the buy number is now 1/5th less. I would expect that number to now drop to 36 million or so.
Reply
Re: Foxconn, Sharp Reportedly Set To Sign Takeover Deal March 31
I would be surprised if any such discretionary spending can survive unless Fox Con desides to dump a bunch of money into making this acquisition pay off. Remember that Sharp has already cut to the bone and some things probably cannot be cut any further.
Reply
Re: Is The Time Right for Copiers to be Made in The USA Again?
I'd love to see it but I think in the end very few people really care if it is made here. Many people claim that they want to buy US made goods but as soon as they have the opportunity to do so they go right back to the foreign, cheaper goods because of the cost. This whole buy USA thing has gotten so much attention recently due to Trump, but until people change their tune about wanting it as cheap as possible nothing will change. Policy on foreign made goods may force people to change but...
Reply
Re: Is The Time Right for Copiers to be Made in The USA Again?
I agree with Jason. It would be nice to have technology manufactured in the US in general. But at the end of the day our labor expenses and manufacturing process automation/quality assurance seem lacking in the globalized landscape. Manufacturing copiers and printers here would also involve moving the manufacturing from existing plants. In a market space where existing manufacturing is below capacity, it would make the case harder to move one. To provide a solution - why don't we reinvest in...
Reply
Re: Is The Time Right for Copiers to be Made in The USA Again?
We're already manufacturing toner here in the US. HP PageWide and MemJet technology is the technology of the future. Just need to tweak the technology some so everyone can use bond paper and get excellent quality. TY for the post!
Topic
Foxconn to build US$9 billion chip plant in China with local govt
Taiwan's Foxconn and its Japanese electronics unit Sharp Corp are in the final stages of talks to build an advanced chip plant in Guangdong, China, with a local government, the Nikkei business daily reported. TOKYO: Taiwan's Foxconn , Apple Inc's iPhone assembler, is in the final stages of talks with the local government of the Chinese city of Zhuhai to build a chip plant there with a total investment of about US$9 billion, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday. The total investment...
Topic
Sharp contractors axe 3,000 staff as iPhone sensor output shifts: union
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly 3,000 foreign workers subcontracted to Sharp Corp have been laid off in central Japan, a labour union said, as the firm moves production of some sensors for Apple iPhones to a Chinese plant owned by its parent Foxconn. The labour union said some of the laid off workers were its members. The union is in Mie Prefecture in central Japan, where Sharp's plant is located. The news of the relocation, first reported by the Nikkei business daily, and the layoffs sent Sharp...
Topic
Foxit Announces Universal Windows Platform Agreement with Nexstgo
FREMONT, Calif. , Jan. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Foxit Software , a leading software provider of fast, affordable, and secure PDF solutions, today announced a partnership with Nexstgo to have PhantomPDF preinstalled as a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in all Nexstgo commercial PC products. With this new agreement, PhantomPDF will be available to Nexstgo customers across all compatible Microsoft Windows devices, including personal computers and notebooks. "We are thrilled at the opportunity...
Topic
Sharp’s Recovery Spotlights the Strength of Corporate Alliances Between Japan and Taiwan
The Intent of Sharp’s Offensive and Defensive Strategies Sharp and Toshiba, two large corporations that once epitomized Japan as a consumer electronics superpower, could hardly differ more in their performance and outlook. On June 5, Sharp announced offensive and defensive strategies of issuing up to ¥200 billion in new shares to improve its financial standing and of acquiring Toshiba’s PC business. Although it later scuttled the stock plan due to market instability arising from recent trade...
Topic
MFP Industry News August 5th 2018
Xerox and Fujifilm battle update - Nikkei Asian newspaper interviewed Shigetaka Komori, CEO of Fujifilm; "Fujifilm can grow without the acquisition (of Xerox), which does not mean we will lose our future." o is continuing its attempts to acquire Xerox, but has denied it will make any compromise, even if it fails in the bid. o "We would not go as far as to raise our terms of acquisition, set in January, to realize the deal." o "It will be better if we can buy Xerox", but the acquisition "is...
Topic
HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS
HEALTHCARE VERTICAL NEWS Canon relaunches solution for healthcare - announced its Nuance eCopy ShareScan Services for healthcare - advertised as document capture onramp that integrates with iManage and Epic software - allow Canon imageRUNNER MFPs to scan into these healthcare solutions - provide compliance for HIPAA and GDPR regulations - use OCR to convert images to HL7 protocol - (this solution competes with the Konica Minolta/Nuance AutoStore MD solution, which does even more as it can be...
Blog Post
The Copier Industry Fast Forward Twenty Years
The year is 2039. It's hard to believe that it's been 15 years since the mighty Xerox Corporation folded. One remembers that statement in December of 2018 that touted Xerox "Unable to Adjust". My how the mighty have fallen. It wasn't only Xerox that fell to the paperless society that we now see today. Canon Let's take a trip back to late 2022, it was late in November that Canon announced that they were going to cease to manufacturing A3 multi-functional devices. That decision was made...
Topic
FUJIFILM DIMATIX TO SHOWCASE INNOVATIVE INKJET TECHNOLOGIES AT LOPEC 2019 IN GERMANY
FUJIFILM DIMATIX TO SHOWCASE INNOVATIVE INKJET TECHNOLOGIES AT LOPEC 2019 IN GERMANY Lebanon, NH, March 19, 2019 – FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc. will demonstrate its piezoelectric inkjet technology and its high performance MEMS based drop-on-demand printheads at the upcoming LOPEC trade fair for printed electronics, March 20 – 21, 2019, in Munich, Germany. Within booth numbers 402 and 404, in Hall B0, FUJIFILM Dimatix will showcase the Dimatix Materials Printer DMP-2850 , a cost-effective,...
Topic
Sharp reports last quarter’s earnings
- Sharp is division of Hon Hai Precision of Taiwan, also known as Foxconn - total sales down 1.2% to 634.9 billion yen - Operating profit was up 38.5% to 29.4 billion yen - (did not break out earnings for printer/MFP division)
Blog Post
This Week in the Copier Industry 5 Years Ago (Second Week of March 2015)
I arrived back in town from Aruba late on Monday. Yup, I took a vacation and rarely accessed the internet! Yay for me. To say the least I came back to state that is in pure panic mode with corona virus. Tuesday was not so bad as four opportunities went HOT. Did the work that I had to and subsequent days produced almost nothing, no email responses, no phone call responses and in four days I was only able to set four meetings for next week. Starting on Monday I'll be sending ZOOM requests for...
Reply
Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
The share price of Sharp Corp. rose 9.13 percent to close at the day's high of 215 Japanese yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday. The rally was seen as a positive response to Taipei-based Hon Hai Group Chairman and founder Terry Gou's announcement in Tokyo a day earlier that he is committed to finalizing an agreement to take a capital stake in the struggling Japanese electronics firm. Speaking at a news conference for a Taiwanese trade delegation visiting Japan, Gou said the details of...
Reply
Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Sharp Corp. (6753), the Japanese panel maker selling a stake to Foxconn Technology Group, fell in Tokyo trading after its credit ratings were cut and a report said the company offered to lower the price of the shares. Sharp dropped as much as 8.1 percent to 182 yen and traded at 188 yen as of 1 p.m., extending the Osaka-based company’s decline this year to 72 percent. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317), Foxconn’s flagship company, rose to the highest level in four months in Taipei after...
Reply
Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
The 100-year-old inventor of mechanical pencils needs to pen a new plan to make it to 101. Sharp Corp. (6753), Japan’s biggest liquid-crystal display maker, put up its Osaka headquarters and some plants as collateral last week to win bank loans after its credit ratings were cut to junk. The supplier to Apple Inc. (AAPL) is also renegotiating a stock sale to Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group as it tries to recover from record losses and a 70 percent slump in shares this year. Within six...
Reply
Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has asked Sharp Corp., currently under rehabilitation, to spin off its small and midsize liquid crystal display business into a joint venture between them, it has been learned. In addition to establishing a joint company to produce and market LCD panels--a sector seen as Sharp's main source of revenue--the Taiwan firm is also demanding the Japanese company accept board members from Hon Hai, sources said. Sharp is in talks with Hon Hai over the former's proposal...
Reply
Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Nov 15 (Basis Point) - Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd's chairman is lining up a T$19 billion ($654 million) loan for his purchase of a stake in Sharp's 10th-generation liquid crystal display (LCD) plant, said sources with knowledge of the matter. Chairman Terry Guo is providing a personal guarantee on the loan, the sources said, who declined to be identified as they were not authorised to speak to the media. A Taiwan investment company owned by Guo will be the borrower on the financing,...
Reply
Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Hon Hai's Gou says talks on investment in Sharp still on: paper (Reuters) - Qualcomm's tie-up with Sharp Corp will not affect Hon Hai Precision's talks with the Japanese firm to become its biggest shareholder and the deadline to reach a decision by next March still stands, a Taiwan newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting Hon Hai's chairman. Terry Gou, chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry, a major supplier of parts to Apple Inc, was mentioned by the United Evening News as saying the Taiwan...
Reply
Re: Sharp has Serious Money Problems!
Taipei, Jan. 14 (CNA) Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. confirmed Monday that it still plans to buy a stake in ailing Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp., after a Sharp executive said the company may have several suitors. Negotiations on the possible tie-up are ongoing, a Hon Hai spokesman said when asked about comments on the potential deal made by Sharp China Group general manager Nobuyuki Sugano to a Chinese newspaper over the weekend. Hon Hai, the world's biggest contract...
Reply
Re: Ricoh Stops Operations at three key plants!!
Hey Art, Didn't notice your question till now. I do not know for sure. I know that so much of the hardware are built in China/Taiwan/etc and that most Japan-based manufacturing facilities are nowhere near the tsunami zone, so there is no actual damage to the plants. That said, the factories, shipping operations, and corporate HQs are certainly not back to business as usual so I would think there would be some disruption. I was at the Sharp dealer meetings and Ed McLaughlin said that their...
Reply
Re: Warranty on Ricoh copier parts
I doubt it directly from Ricoh. Most Hard Drive manufacturers cover the hard drive anywhere from 1 to 3 years. You have to go directly to them for that. I did years ago when a hard drive failed on an AF450. It depends on the manufacture and if it was originally purchased by Ricoh and shipped to Singapore or Taiwan, this might have an impact on whether the Mfg will ship a warranty replacement to a different country.
Comment
Re: Sharp Watch....It's Like Playing Battleship
Japan’s Sharp is making dull promises to reform, but it’s hard to see a path to recovery for the struggling electronics maker. The company on Tuesday reported a 7.2 billion yen ($61 million) net loss in the nine months to December, and now sees a 30 billion yen net loss for the full fiscal year ending in March. That is versus earlier guidance of a 30 billion yen profit. This is especially disappointing because it was only last fiscal year that Sharp raised fresh equity and posted a narrow...
Reply
Re: Hon Hai formally offered to invest in Sharp last week: source
I just wonder how long they will all keep a sinking ship above water. I know the imaging group is doing ok but it can't make up but a small percentage of sharps overall portfolio.
Topic
Susumu "Sam" Ichioka
At its recent shareholdersmeeting in Tokyo, Japan, Ricoh Company Ltd., the parent company of RicohCorporation, announced that Susumu "Sam" Ichioka has been appointed Chairmanand Chief Executive Officer of Ricoh Corporation. Mr. Ichioka has served...
Topic
US Sales down 1.4%, is Salereno on the Hot Seat?
Japan Ricoh Q1 to June net profit up 11 pct on strong printer, copier sales , 08.03.04, 9:53 AM ET TOKYO (AFX-ASIA) - Ricoh Co Ltd, Japan's second-largest maker of office equipment, reported its first quarter to June net profit rose 11 pct to 24.8 bln...
Topic
Opportunity In Good Supply
Opportunity In Good SupplyBY LAURA MANDAROINVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILYPosted 8/11/2006Back to school means back to business for office supply superstores.The big three — Staples, (SPLS) Office Depot (ODP) and OfficeMax (OMX) — make up 10% of...
Topic
DocuWare Teams with ABBYY and Fujitsu to Automate Document Management
Newburgh, NY – May 11, 2009 – DocuWare, a leading provider of Integrated Document Management (IDM) solutions, has teamed up with ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, and Fujitsu...
Topic
Weekend Industry Notes from 10/04/09
Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter10-4-09Xerox announced that its desktop DocuMate scanners (which are actually made by JFL Peripheral Solutions/Visioneer), now have a driver to work with Linux operating systems based computer. The driver is called...
Topic
Weekend Industry Notes from 10/18/09
Weekend MFP Industry Notes Newsletter10-18-09- - - A British company introduced the world’s smallest printer. PrintDreams launched a small handheld device, called the PrintBrush, which is moved by hand across a sheet of paper to create an image....
Topic
Quanta Storage Loses Patent Lawsuit to Ricoh
Quanta Storage Loses Patent Lawsuit to Ricoh Quanta Storage Inc. lost two patent lawsuits to Japan?s Ricoh and is ordered to pay $14.50 million as damages, the company said in a statement. A US Court in Wisconsin on November 20 made a judgment that...
Topic
Weekend MFP Industry Notes 11-7-2010
Weekend MFP Industry Notes - According to security vendor, MS Lab Inc., the company is still detecting malware distribution related to Xerox MFPs. The trojan poses as an automatic message from Xerox WorkCentre Pro MFPs, to look like a scan to email....
Topic
Nuance Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search Apps Now Available in Finland
Nuance Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search Apps Now Available in FinlandNov 28, 2011 Burlington, Mass. – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that its Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad...
Topic
ABBYY USA Honored in the 2011 Mobile Star Awards™
ABBYY USA Honored in the 2011 Mobile Star Awards™Dec 13, 2011 MILPITAS, USA - ABBYY® USA, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and professional services, is pleased to announce that ABBYY...
Topic
Dragon Search Apps Now Available in Russia
Nuance Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search Apps Now Available in RussiaDragon Dictation and Dragon Search Continue European Expansion, Making it Faster and Easier for Russians to Speak Text For Emails, Text Messages, Web Content and MoreBurlington,...
Topic
ABBYY Powers a Quantum Leap in the Evolution of Multifunctional Peripherals
Sept. 14, 2011, 8:00 a.m. EDT ABBYY Powers a Quantum Leap in the Evolution of Multifunctional PeripheralsIntelligent Classification and Conversion Raises the IQ of MFPs with the Advent of FineReader Engine 2.0 for Embedded OS MILPITAS, Calif., Sept....
Topic
ABBYY Expands Canadian Operations
Company Opens Kanata, Ontario Office and Announces Canada Country ManagerMILPITAS, Calif., June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, linguistic technologies and professional services, today...