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Form 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of August 2005
LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
(Translation of Registrant’s name into English)
20 Yoido-dong, Youngdungpo-gu, Seoul 150-721, The Republic of Korea
(Address of principal executive offices)
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LG.Philips LCD To Consider Investement in New TFT-LCD Module Factory
in Eastern Europe
Global Manufacturing Footprint Important to Maintaining Leadership in Rapidly Growing
Flat-Screen Industry
LG.Philips LCD (NYSE: LPL, KRX: 034220), one of the world’s leading TFT-LCD manufacturers, said today that it is considering setting up a new TFT-LCD module factory in Eastern Europe.
The company is currently looking at several countries in the region, including Poland, as potential sites for a new factory. Further announcements will be made in due course, once a final agreement is reached.
LG.Philips LCD restated the company’s strategy to optimize its global manufacturing processes. As part of this strategy, and seeing the growing international demand for LCD TV products, it is currently reviewing plans to build a TFT-LCD module factory in Eastern Europe.
LG.Philips LCD believes that having a manufacturing site in Eastern Europe will sustain its leading status in the LCD industry and allow for a smarter, more efficient and more cost effective manufacturing processes.
The TFT-LCD module factory is a “back-end” processing facility. LG.Philips LCD has similar TFT-LCD module factories in Gumi, Korea and Nanjing, China and is currently constructing a module factory in the Paju Display Cluster in Gyeonggi-do, Korea, as part of one of the world’s largest 7th generation TFT-LCD panel manufacturing facilities, which will commence mass production in the first half of 2006.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd. | ||||
| (Registrant) | ||||
| Date: August 26, 2005 | By: | /s/ Ron H. Wirahadiraksa | ||
| (Signature) | ||||
| Name: | Ron H. Wirahadiraksa | |||
| Title: | Joint Representative Director/ President & Chief Financial Officer | |||