LG Philips LCD plans five billion dollar investment despite output glut

LG Philips LCD is to invest five billion dollars in new facilities to produce next-generation flat panel displays in order to strengthen its global market leadership.

The company said it would invest 5.29 trillion won (5.0 billion dollars) to build a "seventh generation" TFT-LCD fabrication plant in Paju, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Seoul by early 2006.

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