Chunghwa Picture Tubes to build two LCD plants

Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd., Taiwan's third-biggest maker of liquid-crystal displays, plans to begin building two LCD factories in central Taiwan in the first quarter of next year, a government official said yesterday.

One plant will make so-called sixth-generation LCDs, while the other will build 8.5-generaton LCDs, said Yvonne Lee, a spokeswoman at Taiwan's Taichung Science Park.