Sensing the potential ever growing LCD TV market, Nikon Corp, the digital camera manufacturer has announced to invest around $2.3 billion yen (approximately $19 million) to initiate the manufacturing of glass substrates for liquid crystal display photomasks. Photomasks are employed to transfer circuit patterns during the manufacturing of semiconductors and liquid crystal displays.
Though Nikon has planned to start the new business of making glass material, they have announced it officially for the very first time. Currently, Japan’s Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. tops the list of photomask glass substrates makers
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