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Damages Caused by the Fukushima Prefecture Offshore Earthquake
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Mar 17, 2022
The damages on our operations caused by the Fukushima Prefecture
offshore Earthquake that occurred on March 16 at 23:36 are as follows.
There were no casualties in our employees but there was damage
such as misalignments to equipment at some production bases. We are in the
process of repairing all damages, including at our bases on the areas
suffering from water outages, but resuming of operations in those areas
relies on when the infrastructure is restored.
See below for overview (as of March 17th, 11:00 AM).
No impact from the earthquake
- Headquarters (Tokyo, Ota)
- Furukawa R&D Center (Miyagi prefecture, Osaki)
- Sendai R&D Center (Miyagi prefecture, Sendai)
- Taira Plant (Fukushima prefecture, Iwaki)
- Iwaki Office (Fukushima prefecture, Iwaki)
- Alpine Manufacturing 3 plants (Fukushima prefecture, Iwaki, Tamura)
- Nagaoka Plant (Niigata prefecture, Nagaoka)
Repairing and restoring amid mostly normal operations
- Onahama Plant (Fukushima prefecture, Iwaki
Production suspended due to water outages, equipment damage etc.
- Furukawa Plant 2 (Miyagi prefecture, Osaki)
- Wakuya Plant (Miyagi prefecture, Toda)
- Kakuda Plant (Miyagi prefecture, Kakuda)