Murata Manufacturing, the world's largest MLCC manufacturer, announced the completion of its second MLCC factory in Wuxi, China, and the opening ceremony was held yesterday.

According to a report by SemiMeida in 2018, the plant broke ground in 2018 and was scheduled to be completed in December 2019. Murata said that the factory is the necessary infrastructure to cope with the growing demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors.

The production plant in the factory covers an area of 22,155 square meters, an office area of 3,165 square meters, and an energy building occupies an area of 5,138 square meters. The total construction investment is 14 billion yen.