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Thai engineers transferred to Europe
From the suspension of production at Ayutthaya plant, HOYA implemented the
contingency measures starting with increasing the manpower and machine
capacity in the local small sized laboratories worldwide. Experienced Thai
engineers were sent to various countries, including Japan, to support the local
teams in increasing production output and meeting the market demand. As an
example, in Europe the individual country labs connected into a flexible network
and based on a 24/7 schedule and extra-ordinary investment in additional
equipments, the entire region managed to triple total production capacity in less
than 3 months, although not enough to respond to the demand.
With similar measures, all the other regions, including Japan, increased the local
production capacity and strived to catch up with the orders.
Meanwhile, at the Ayutthaya facility the buildings have been repaired, the
damaged equipments sent for restoration while new equipments were already
installed by the end of March 2012. Order receiving at Ayutthaya plant resumed
from April 2012 and by the end of June, with the production capacity
progressively increasing, HOYA reached a sufficient level of total global capacity
[Thailand Super Labs + Local lab network] to meet the global pre-flood demand
and to ensure adequate output volumes for the summer season demand in this
year.