Japan supply crisis spreads issue as companies cut

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TOKYO - Sony Corp for more output to five plants cut and Toyota delayed motor restart assembly lines as the global supply of parts and products began to feel the full impact of the catastrophic earthquake of Japan.

Electronics and cars have multinationals have been most affected by the turbulence, but in an illustration of how the ripples spread, Rio Tinto, world's no. 2 iron ore miner behind Brazil's Vale, warned that the disruption his expansion plans threat.

Miners are already longer ramp waiting for important equipment as a company up to exploration, shutdown on plants manufacture of earth moving heavy machinery and electronics rather additional loads create to make.

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"I expect that the Japanese situation to effect deliveries of Japanese sources... but so far are equipment we in order", Mark Cutifani said Chief Executive of AngloGold Ashanti, Reuters mining and steel Summit, global on Tuesday.

Proposed more than 10 days after a 9.0 earthquake and 10 meter tsunami northeast of Japan, are producers fight, back to speed up like factories grapple with power cuts, verkruppelten infrastructure and a lack of parts.

Companies of Apple Inc., General Motors co and Nokia are the impact felt.

Toyota, the world's largest automaker, said all 12 Japanese assembly plants would remain now closed at least until the Saturday and it was not sure when she would reopen. Production lost between March would some 140,000 units 14-26.

Honda said its production halt would continue until Sunday. The extended shutdown affected factories and motor cycles in the Kumamoto plant finished vehicle production at its Saitama and Suzuka. Previously had announced the shutdown by Wednesday.

The maker of Subaru cars, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., said it production of parts for overseas production begins Wednesday and spare parts on Thursday but the shutdown on five car factories in Japan stretched until Thursday.

Japanese automakers production are killed is expected as soon as they restart rebound after the earthquake and tsunami, probably at least 18,000 people in the North-East. But industry analysts say, they are are hampered by power shortages and damage to roads.

Last week, Nissan Motor Co., and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. restart some plants with their stocks of parts, but said that still only as long as inventory lasts.

Electronics giant of Sony Electronics, said five more of their works, notably in Central and southern Japan and produces digital and video cameras, microphones, and TV parts shortages were met and would close or cut output by the end of March.

"If the shortage of parts and material take these plants again, necessary measures, including a temporary shift of production overseas, consider" said in a statement Tuesday the manufacturer of the PlayStation game consoles.

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A sixth facility north of Tokyo, should resume production on Tuesday, but it could knit delivered, which operates power outages affect some areas roles of Tokyo electric power (TEPCO) nuclear power station Fukushima be interrupted.

Only partially newly launched including two factories last week affected 15 of Sony's 25 Japanese plants. It has a total of 54 plants worldwide.

Tech chain vulnerable
Japan's grip on the global electronics supply chain caused concern. It produces about one fifth of the global computer chips and exported 7.2 trillion yen ($ 91.3 billion) worth of electronic parts last year research of Mirae asset investments shows.

"There are a lot of little bits of the food chain tech-nowhere but also in Japan, be done", said Sam Perry, senior investment manager of Japanese equity funds Pictet selection. "No one has the quality or consistency, and in some cases of the technology to do it."

This is now is perceived at Hewlett-Packard, is the impact on the business.

"Providers face uncertainty in the minute." "The crisis in Japan prices has effects on the component and the importance of the Japan for the storage market will be a concern," said Tim Coulling, analyst at Canalys, PC.

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"Although been outsourced production to China, South Korea and other markets increasingly lower cost, there are more than 40 factories in Japan which produces a significant proportion of PC and Smartphone components worldwide" added to Coulling.

FUJIFILM Holdings, cellulose film used leading manufacturer of Triacetyl, to LCD panels, said that his most important works are were all West of Tokyo and not directly affected. It has other facilities in the Japan, but said errors, which are unlikely to damage a profit.

Konica Minolta, the second largest manufacturer of the LCD film, said that its three factories in the greater Tokyo of the soft power outages had affected. Company officials declined to what these factories produce specify.

Camera and photocopier maker Canon Inc., all of your domestic production of cameras to at least exposed to has on Thursday, said a lack of gasoline was the distribution and personnel in areas such as the island of Kyushu, stop work on the train services are minimal.

Nikon, which makes cameras and precision equipment, said it expected production at all its North Japan plants continue to end of March, but warned power outages and lack of parts could be difficult to make a return to full production.

Renesas Electronics Corporation, the world no. 5 chip manufacturer, new operations started on Saturday at a semiconductor plant in Yamagata Prefecture in Northwest spokeswoman said Japan, a company on the Tuesday-issue leave to six of the company suspended 22 factories in Japan.

Hitachi construction, Japan's no. 2 producer of earth-moving machines, said five factories in Ibaraki, North of Tokyo, closed after the earthquake. Three partially reopened, but there is no schedule for the reopening of the other.

Tsunami damage to the nearest port means that Hitachi some products from Yokohama, close to Tokyo will be shipped.

Japan's top three steel companies saw some progress in the recovery of production in a sign of a return to normality.

Nippon Steel Corp., output at three blast furnaces at the plant said base in the eastern Japan to levels, pre - quake during JFE Steel Corp., said two blast furnaces at the plant now hardware maintenance were 10 million tonnes per year in the vicinity of Tokyo had recovered.

The associated press and Reuters contributed to this report.