April 25, 2016

Completion of New Building
at Aomori Olympus’ Medical Equipment Manufacturing Plant

From Aomori to the World:
Therapy Devices that Help Reduce Stress on Patients
Olympus Corporation (Head office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President: Hiroyuki Sasa)
today announced the completion of a new building at Aomori Olympus Co., Ltd.
(Kuroishi-shi, Aomori), one of its key manufacturing sites for medical equipment. The
new building is intended to facilitate further advances in Olympus’ medical business. It
was completed on April 25, 2016 and will commence full-scale operations at the end of
September 2016.
Ever since the commercialization of the gastrocamera in 1950, medical endoscopes from Olympus
have been helping to achieve the “early diagnosis” of cancer and other illnesses, and enabling“minimally invasive therapies” that reduce pain and stress on patients undergoing surgery or otherprocedures. The main products manufactured by Aomori Olympus include devices used inendoscopic therapy and energy devices used in surgery. These products are supplied to medical
institutions for the treatment of patients throughout the world, not just in Japan.
The completion of the new building will establish a solid base of infrastructure by improving
productivity. It is also intended to create a better working environment for staff, with the existingbuilding to be refurbished once the new building commences operations. Through its medical
business, Olympus intends to continue implementing its “Social IN” corporate philosophy of“striving to realize better health and happiness for people by proposing new values”.
Olympus announced a plan in December 2012 to build new factory buildings in order to facilitate major advances in
its medical business with the aim of establishing a solid base of manufacturing infrastructure by expanding
production capacity, boosting productivity, and implementing BCP※１ measures at its key manufacturing sites for
medical equipment (at Aizu, Shirakawa, and Aomori). The facilities at Shirakawa and Aizu were already completed.
*1:Business Continuity Planning: A comprehensive action plan that includes measures for ensuring that important activities cancontinue uninterrupted in the event of a disaster, or if interrupted can resume operation within the target recovery time.

Newbuilding

Artist’s impression of Aomori Olympus-1-●Overview of Aomori Olympus Co., Ltd. after completion of new building
1. Location: 2-248-1 Okkonoki, Kuroishi-shi, Aomori (President: Koji Takamura)
2. Total number of employees: Approx. 770 (excluding temporary staff and contractors, as of April 2016)
3. Total floor area: Approx. 20,000 m2 (new building is approximately 9,000 m2)
4. Site area: 39,500 m2●Overview of new building
1. Construction: Single steel-frame building with two floors, seismically isolated structure
2. Total construction cost: 2.7 billion yen (approx.)
3. Features of new building:[1] Rigorous measures for productivity improvement and quality management
・ Establishes a solid base of manufacturing infrastructure with higher productivity
achieved through consolidation and extension of production lines.
・ Building has double-skin exterior walls to exclude insects and rodents, with rigorous
measures to ensure clean rooms are free of dust and dirt.
[2] Environmentally aware design:・ LED lighting throughout
・ Free cooling (A system for using cooling tower to produce cooling water during spring,
fall, and winter that saves energy by eliminating the need to run a freezer.)[3] Better working environment for staff:
・ Provision of new utility space (refresh room)
・ Elevator access
4. Floor use in new factory building:
2F
Production
1F
Production, non-production (parts procurement, etc.)● Overview of refurbishment of existing building
The existing building will be refurbished once the new building commences operations to create
a better working environment for the staff.
1. Refurbishment schedule: Commencement in October 2016, completion in July 2017
2. Planned refurbishments of existing building:・ Rebuilding of staff canteen (roughly double seating capacity)
・ Construction of new powder room
・ Construction of new large meeting room (100 person max. capacity)・ Installation of multi-purpose toilets
・ Installation of roof over access to main entrance
・ Expansion of product display space in main lobby
3. Floor use in refurbished building:
2F
Production, non-production
1F
Non-production (staff canteen and changing room, engineering, etc.)
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