Factories located near Japan quake-hit region

Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:49am GMT

March 11 (Reuters) - Following is a partial list of companies with factories and offices located in northeast Japan in the areas worst hit by Japan's earthquake and tsunamis, as well as affected operations in other regions.

Cosmo Oil Co
- Major fire at oil refinery in Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo. All operations halted. Work to put out fire going on since 0658 GMT.

Toyota Motor Corp
- Subsidiary Central Motor Co: Miyagi prefecture, near Sendai. Started production in January 2011, builds Yaris subcompact sedan. Capacity: 120,000 units a year.

- Subsidiary Kanto Auto Works: Iwate prefecture. Builds smaller cars such as Belta sedan, Auris, Blade, ist.

- Joint venture with Panasonic Corp , Prime Earth EV Energy, in Miyagi prefecture. Makes batteries for hybrid cars. Production suspended.

- Toyota Motor Tohoku car parts factory. Operations started in Oct 1998. Production stopped, no injuries.

Nissan Motor Co
- Production halted at all four car assembly factories in Japan, including those in severely hit Tochigi and Fukushima prefectures. Small fires confirmed at those two factories. Two suffered minor injuries at Tochigi factory.

Honda Motor Co
- Tochigi factory, makes engine parts, transmissions. Established in December 1970. National broadcaster NHK reports one woman dead after damage to building.

- Also has major R&D centres in Tochigi. 42-year-old male employee dies at Honda R&D Centre.

- Company yet to confirm the situation.

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd
- Maker of Subaru cars and aircraft. Has aircraft factory and industrial vehicles factory in Tochigi prefecture. Company could not be immediately reached for comments.

Sony Corp
- Two factories in Fukushima, four in Miyagi. All are closed and employees evacuated. Extent of damage not yet known. One Miyagi factory makes semiconductors, the other three make optical film and various other parts. The two Fukushima factories make batteries.

JFE Steel
- Broadcaster TBS reports fire at its Chiba prefecture steel plant. Company says no big damage to the plant.

Panasonic Corp
- Two factories in Fukushima, producing audio products and digital cameras, one in Miyagi prefecture (Sendai) producing camera lenses.

Tokyo Gas Co
- Stopped gas supply to more than 35,000 households and facilities in Kanto area in eastern Japan.

Tohoku Electric Power Co
- Facilities operating as usual.

Tokyo Electric Power Co
- Power plant operating as usual.

JSR (synthetic rubber maker)
- Kashima factory, in Ibaraki prefecture, stopped production but no damage to facilities.

Citigroup Holdings Japan
- No damage to trading facilities, operating normally after quake. All staff in central Tokyo safe. Company will send staff home early. No confirmation of safety of all staff in retail branch offices outside Tokyo. Has no office in Sendai. (Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim, Isabel Reynolds and Chikafumi Hodo; Editing by Anshuman Daga,sourced:Thomson REuters)