Nippon Mining & Metals improves the operation rate for electric materials including sputtering target material.

The Isohara plant in Ibaraki operates at full capacity for indium tin oxide for sputtering target material of liquid crystal panel and platinum group metals target materials for hard disc.

The Shirogane plant in Ibaraki and Philippine copper foil operation also recovered 80% utilization compared with the peak in first half of 2008.

The Kurami plant in Kanagawa is recovering 90% of the peak operation in July.