Fujitsu’s Oregon Project Goes Ahead

Tue., July 25, 1995

From Staff And Wire Reports

Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. announced Monday it is moving ahead with its $1 billion expansion of a computer chip plant outside Portland after winning a $23.3 million tax break.

The company had indicated it might not expand unless it got the tax break, then said that it would go ahead with the project regardless.

The Gresham City Council and the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners voted last week to approve the tax break over the objection of commission Chairwoman Beverly Stein, who said it was unnecessary.

The new plant will make semiconductor memory chips for various industrial, commercial and consumer computer products worldwide.

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