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PRESS RELEASE: Ricoh Manufacturing Sites in Japan Affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Status Update
March 18, 2011 -- Ricoh Company, Ltd. -- As of March 18, Wednesday, 15:00 pm (Japan Time): The following is a damage and operations status update of Ricoh manufacturing locations in Tohoku, Kanto and Shizuoka Prefecture. From now on, we will only update the status when there are significant changees. | Plant/Company Name | Location | Human Casualties | Status as of
March 18 | Plan after March 22 | Ricoh Optical Industries Co., Ltd.
(optical products, projectors, etc.) | Hanamaki, Iwate | None | Operations Suspended | Undecided
(Recovery time TBD) | Hazama Ricoh, Inc.
(product parts) | Tome, Miyagi | None | Operations Suspended | Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.
(MFPs, printers, toner) | Shibata-gun,
Miyagi | None | Operations Suspended | Ricoh Printing Systems, Ltd.
(Production printing products) | Hitachinaka,
Ibaraki | None | Operations Suspended | Undecided
(Recovery time TBD) | Ricoh Unitechno Co., Ltd.
(High capacity MFPs, refurbishing, recycling) | Yashio, Saitama | None | Partly in Operation | Will be In Operation
(subject to rolling blackouts) | Atsugi Plant
(MFP and printer parts) | Atsugi,
Kanagawa | None | Partly in Operation | Will be In Operation
(subject to rolling blackouts) | Gotemba Plant
(MFPs and printers) | Gotemba,
Shizuoka | None | Operations Suspended | Will be In Operation
(subject to rolling blackouts) | Numazu Plant
(Supplies, toner, etc.) | Numazu,
Shizuoka | None | Partly in Operation | Will be In Operation
(subject to rolling blackouts) |
(First posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:28 EDT)
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