# Citizen Watch to build new factory building in Kagoshima, Japan

Citizen Watch Manufacturing will add a new factory building at its Citizen Watch Kagoshima subsidiary, with an investment of approximately 6 billion yen, to increase production capacity for watch parts.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2017-08-29
- Where: Hioki City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, Japan
- Value: $54.0M (6.00B JPY)
- Jobs: 20
- Starts operating: Apr 2018
- Status: under construction
- Products: watch parts, precision parts
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md)

## Companies

- [Citizen Watch Manufacturing](https://endata.com/companies/17576.md)
- [Citizen Watch Kagoshima](https://endata.com/companies/17577.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [en.lnews.jp](https://en.lnews.jp/2017/08/j082913.html), 2017-08-29: "This will be the first new factory building in five years, with construction scheduled to begin in July, completion in March of next year, and operations expected to start in April."

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