OSAKA – Panasonic Electronic Devices plans to build a printed circuit board fabrication plant in Vietnam.

Panasonic, which ranked 32d on the annual NTI 100 list of the largest board fabricators (http://pcdandf.com/cms/component/content/article/171-current-issue/8280-nti-100), said beginning next August the facility would build would produce 3.5 million units monthly of ALIVH multilayer resin boards for use in smartphones and other high-functionality mobile terminals.

Panasonic currently manufactures ALIVH boards in Taiwan at the facilities of Panasonic Taiwan Co., whose output capacity will be increased to 6 million units per month in terms of smartphones by the end of 2011, quadruple the figure achieved in the last fiscal year ended March 2011. In Vietnam, production at the new plant is expected to reach 3.5 million per month by August 2012, bringing Panasonic's total overseas production capacity to 9.5 million units per month, almost six times the level of the last fiscal year.

ALIVH is a multilayer resin board developed and commercialized by Panasonic as the world's first full-layer interstitial via hole (IVH). As of March 2011, global shipments of ALIVH boards in cellphones exceeded 400 million units.

No financial terms of the investment were disclosed.

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