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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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