Canon Zhuhai Company officially announced the suspension of production.

Canon Zhuhai Company officially announced the suspension of production.

Canon Zhuhai Company officially announced the suspension of production. On June 65438+1October 65438+March, an explosive news spread all over the manufacturing industry in the Pearl River Delta. Zhuhai High-tech Zone confirmed to a number of media that Canon, a big factory that has been operating in Zhuhai for 32 years, has stopped production, and Canon Zhuhai Company officially announced the suspension of production.

Canon Zhuhai Company officially announced the suspension of production 1 Recently, Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Canon Zhuhai") announced the suspension of production. 65438+ 10/3, Guangdong Zhuhai High-tech Zone confirmed to many media that Canon Zhuhai, which has been developing in Zhuhai for 32 years, has stopped production, and the company is currently discussing the disposal plan with employees.

Southern Reporter noted that due to the rise of smart phones, the digital camera market has been rapidly compressed, and traditional camera giants have sought transformation.

Source: Canon Zhuhai official website

Canon's 32-year-old factory stopped production

It is understood that Canon I has seven production and maintenance bases for camera products, including four in Japan and three overseas, located in Taiwan Province Province, China, Zhuhai, China and Malaysia.

According to information from official website, Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. was established in June 1990 1, then located in Beiling at the foot of Banzhang Mountain in Zhuhai, and moved to Jinding Industrial Zone in Zhuhai High-tech Zone in 20 13, with a total investment of1500 million yuan, covering an area of 200,000 square meters. Although Canon has branches in Dalian, Suzhou, Zhongshan and other places, only Zhuhai mainly produces imaging products such as lenses, digital cameras and digital camcorders.

Canon Zhuhai's 2020 annual environmental report released in February last year showed that by the end of 2020, the company's total investment was 220 million US dollars. In 2020, drivers produced 6.5438+0229 million lenses, 6.5438+0029 million digital cameras and 94,000 digital cameras, and employed 654.38+03. 17 people.

It is reported that the card digital cameras produced by Canon Zhuhai once occupied half of Canon's global sales of card digital cameras. However, on June 5438+1October 12, Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. sent a letter to all employees, saying that "due to the sharp contraction of the national camera market in recent years and the long-term ravage of COVID-19 virus, the company's operation is facing unprecedented difficulties. Despite the concerted efforts of Qi Xin, the company and all its employees, it still failed to turn the corner. After careful study, the headquarters made a difficult decision to terminate the company's production. "

Some insiders believe that the closure of the factory means that Canon has moved its camera production out of Chinese mainland.

The digital camera market has shrunk, and mirrorless cameras have become the mainstream.

With the continuous improvement of mobile phone manufacturers' photography function and the joint name with major well-known camera brands, the traditional camera market is shrinking. According to the report released by the Camera and Imaging Products Industry Association (CIPA), the global digital camera shipment in 2020 was 8.886 million units, which was 465.438+0.6% lower than that in 2065.438+09. Although some epidemics have affected people's outdoor activities, looking back at the peak year of 20 10, the number of people is more than ten times that of1200,000. Since then, with the improvement of smart phone photography function, global camera shipments began to plummet at a double-digit rate every year.

In 20 17, Nikon announced that "due to the rise of smart phones, the small digital camera market has shrunk dramatically", so it would stop the operation of its subsidiary Nikon Optical Instruments (China) Co., Ltd. located in Wuxi, Jiangsu. 202 1 According to Japanese media reports, Nikon has closed two local camera lens factories, and two factories in Imai City, Yamagata Prefecture and Shimamachi, Fukushima Prefecture will also stop production, leaving only the factory in Ogara City, Tochigi Prefecture to produce high-end nikkor lens, and the camera production business has also decided to move to Thailand.

However, due to the rise of social media and video media such as vlog in recent years, mirrorless cameras have become the focus of camera manufacturers. The biggest difference between a mirrorless camera and a SLR camera is that there is no reflector, so the fuselage is greatly reduced. For example, a miniature camera is a typical mirrorless camera.

According to CIPA data, in 2020, the global shipment of SLR cameras was 2.37 million units, down 47%, and the shipment of mirrorless cameras was 2.93 million units, down 26%. The market shipment of mirrorless cameras surpassed that of SLR cameras for the first time.

June 5438+February last year, Canon Chairman and CEO Fujimura Xiu said in an interview with Japanese media, "Canon will end the development and production of digital SLR cameras (including flagship) by changing the production line to only produce non-reflex systems." Because "mirrorless cameras will become the mainstream of digital cameras".

Traditional camera giants have transformed to find a way out.

As an industry that has developed for hundreds of years, most camera brands have a wide range of business. Taking Canon as an example, the turnover in the third quarter of 2002/KLOC-0 was 833.3 billion yen. Among them, the turnover of printing business is 459.2 billion yen, accounting for about 55%, the image business is 65.438+0538 billion yen, accounting for about 65.438+08%, and the turnover of medical business, industrial equipment and other products business is above 1000 billion yen.

The group vision of Canon 202 1-2025 mentioned that "image is the key to the future and has been applied in a wider field than cameras". In the future, the car camera and the "eyes" of the robot will play an important role in autonomous driving ... and make contributions to the future by using technologies such as optics, sensors, image processing, impact analysis and network. In addition, B2B business is also the key layout direction of Canon in the future. Its official website shows that all industries in China are facing the urgent need of transformation and upgrading. "In the future, Canon will achieve new breakthroughs in B2B fields such as office solutions, digital printing, security monitoring and medical equipment, and help China's social development."

Another camera giant Nikon, which is in a profit-making dilemma, has also begun to seek a way out. In 20021year, Nikon announced that it would acquire a majority stake in Morf3D, an American startup focusing on 3D printing, at a price close to10 billion yen (about 910 million US dollars) to lay out the digital manufacturing industry. Previously, Nikon invested $7.5 million in wrnch, a Canadian computer vision and machine learning startup, and $25 million in Lidar company WILDEN.

In 20 19, after Olympus announced the sale of camera business, it announced a brand-new transformation plan, taking global medical technology companies as the development direction.

Fuji is also strengthening the layout of health care. Fuji announced that starting from fiscal year 20021,the business areas of "medical health and high-performance materials" will be divided into two business areas, namely "medical health" and "high-performance materials", so as to strengthen the leading role of medical health business in the company's medium and long-term development. Kenichi Tanaka, president of Fuji China, said in an interview with the media that in the future, the business in China, fujifilm will focus on developing the medical health and high-performance materials market.

In 20 12, Kodak, the film giant, filed for bankruptcy, announcing the official arrival of the digital age. However, today, Kodak, Fuji and other films still survive as a niche hobby. Although the emergence of smart phones has greatly impacted digital cameras, digital cameras still cannot be replaced when photographers begin to pursue better imaging effects and experiences.

Canon Zhuhai Company officially announced that it would stop production 2 1 13, and an explosive news spread all over the manufacturing industry in the Pearl River Delta. Zhuhai High-tech Zone has confirmed to many media that Canon, a big factory that has been operating in Zhuhai for 32 years, has stopped production. At present, the company is discussing the severance plan with its employees.

so sudden

Zhuhai Canon abruptly closed the factory.

An announcement stamped with the official seal of Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. shows that the company is facing unprecedented difficulties due to the sharp contraction of the global camera market in recent years and the long-term rampant COVID-19 virus. Despite the concerted efforts of the company and its employee Qi Xin, it still failed to turn the corner. After careful study, the headquarters made a difficult decision to terminate the company's production.

Canon is one of the first fortune 500 enterprises to enter Zhuhai. 1June, 990, Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd. was formally established, with a total investment of 25 million US dollars, and the first annual output value was only 6.5438+0.5 million US dollars.

With the rapid development of China's economy and good investment environment in Zhuhai, Canon Zhuhai's investment is increasing, and more and more products are produced by Canon Zhuhai: 1994 10, laser printer (LBP) started production,1September 1997, and the camera output reached 100000, in 2007. In February 2003, production of digital cameras began.

In February, 2004, Masao Yamashita, the former director of Canon Japan, said that he would continue to expand production in Zhuhai, the scale of production and sales would be expanded from 600 million dollars to 900 million dollars, and the number of employees would be increased from 7,200 at that time to 8,000.

In April 2006, the scale of laser printers reached 20 million; From June 5438 to October 2006, the output of digital cameras reached100000. In June, 2007, we began to produce direct photo printers.

Before 18, Canon Zhuhai's investment increased nearly 6 times, and its total output value increased nearly 700 times. Canon Zhuhai has also become Canon's largest production base outside Japan.

After 2008

Slide down the peak quickly

However, with the introduction of the new labor law in 2008, employees' awareness of rights protection has risen, which has gradually frozen the original warm labor relations, and Zhuhai Canon has also fallen rapidly from its peak.

On the afternoon of 201March 19, hundreds of employees of Canon Zhuhai gathered at the east gate of the factory to strike to protest against the company's salary reduction in disguise. The reason is that after the China government substantially raised the minimum wage, Canon split the benefits such as provident fund, housing subsidy and contract fees into the basic wage, which triggered employee protests.

On September 20 12, the strike of Japanese-funded enterprises triggered by the fishing bird incident swept almost all Japanese-funded enterprises in Chinese mainland, and the Canon Suzhou-Zhuhai factory was also seriously affected. Since this year, Japanese companies have stopped treating their employees as family members and started a continuous layoff plan for 10.

By 20 19, the employees of Zhuhai factory sent a video showing that there were almost no people in the factory because they could not receive the order, 70% of the employees were laid off, and even the dormitory was rented to the surrounding college students. Some employees show their payrolls, saying that the salary in 2020 is not even as good as that in 20 12 years.

By the end of 2020, the number of employees in the company has dropped sharply from the peak of more than 10,000 to 1, 3 17.

True story

Why is Canon not good?

I have to admit that the decline of Canon has a direct causal relationship with the replacement of digital cameras by mobile phones, but the business situation of Canon, the world's top 500, is actually very stable. According to the financial report data of the third quarter of 2002/kloc-0 released by Canon Group, the group's turnover in the third quarter of 2002/kloc-0 was 833.3 billion yen, up 9.8% year-on-year. Gross profit was 388 billion yen, up 18.4% year-on-year, and net income surged 196. 1% year-on-year.

In specific business areas, Canon's printing business achieved revenue of 459.2 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%; The revenue of the image business was 65.438+0538 billion yen, up 9.3% year-on-year; The medical business realized revenue of 1 157 billion yen, up 9.8% year-on-year; Industrial equipment and other business areas achieved revenue of 654.38+030.4 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 25.6%.

Then the question is, since the camera orders are shrinking rapidly, why did Japan choose to close the China factory after the continuous downsizing in 10, instead of switching to other equipment in Zhuhai and closing the Malaysian factory?

As the saying goes, "the economic foundation determines the superstructure, and politics is the continuation of the economy." Since the sharp decline of Sino-Japanese relations on 20 12, the evacuation of Japanese enterprises has been put on the agenda. From September 2065438 to September 2006, a 230-member Japanese economic delegation visited China and asked the China government to set up a special window to simplify the evacuation procedures for Japanese enterprises. By April 2020, the Japanese government has allocated142 billion yuan (220 billion yen) to help Japanese enterprises move back to Japan, and this day will come sooner or later.

Dajiangdong is gone forever. When these enterprises leave, they will never come back. I just hope you can remember that the good things of these foreign-funded enterprises are the funds, technology, equipment, management and even orders they provide, which help us to liberate from poverty and backwardness and live a well-fed life.

According to informed sources, the severance payment demanded by employees is 2.8N, which is much higher than the legal standard of N+ 1. Next, it depends on how Canon accepts the quotation. Judging from the strong strength of the company and the performance of Japanese companies in the past, Zhuhai Canon will definitely leave with compensation higher than N+ 1.

Canon Zhuhai Company officially announced the termination of production 3 "Canon, forever moved"

Due to the sharp contraction of the global camera market and the global epidemic, Canon Zhuhai Co., Ltd., which has been developing in Zhuhai for 32 years, announced the decision to "terminate the company's production" on June 5438+ 10/2, causing an uproar.

In today's era of the rapid rise of smart phones, the digital camera market represented by Canon is being rapidly compressed, and traditional camera giants are seeking transformation.

As one of the giants in the field of digital cameras, Canon * * * has seven camera production and maintenance bases, among which, except for four Japanese bases, the other three are located in China, Taiwan Province Province, Malaysia and China, Zhuhai.

1990, Canon's phase machine production line was located in Jinding Jin Huan East Road, Tangjiawan Town, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, and it was one of the first Japanese-funded enterprises to enter Zhuhai. From lens polishing to camera assembly, at its peak, Canon Zhuhai Factory has nearly 10,000 employees and is one of Canon's most important overseas production bases.

2 1 In the first decade of the century, smart phones did not rise, and most mobile phones did not support the camera function. At that time, owning a digital camera was a sign of fashion trend. Canon became an instant hit with its compact and fashionable IXUS series, and even once led the development trend of the digital camera market.

According to the announcement of Canon China in 2008, relying on IXUS series of IXAS and PowerShot series of Boxiu, Canon became the first manufacturer in the world to sell over 100 million small digital cameras. Canon Zhuhai's card digital cameras account for half of Canon's global sales of card digital cameras.

Mobile phone manufacturers continue to improve their photography functions, and the traditional camera market has been continuously compressed. In 2020, the global shipment of digital cameras was 8.886 million units, down by 465.438+0.6% compared with 2065.438+09.

On 20 17, Nikon announced to stop the operation of Jiangsu Wuxi subsidiary; 202 1 according to Japanese media reports, Nikon closed two Japanese camera lens factories and moved its camera production business to Thailand.

Canon Zhuhai said in this announcement, "Due to the sharp contraction of the market and the long-term ravages of COVID-19, the company is facing unprecedented difficulties. With the joint efforts of the company and employees, it still failed to reverse the dilemma. After careful study, the headquarters made a difficult decision to terminate the company's production. "

The closure of Canon's Zhuhai factory means that Canon is ready to move its camera production out of Chinese mainland, which also means that the output of Canon digital cameras will be greatly reduced.

In February of last year, 65438, Canon Zhuhai released the 2020 environmental protection report. By the end of 2020, the company has invested a total of 220 million US dollars, and in 2020, it will produce 0/2.29 million lenses, 0/0.29 million digital cameras, 94,000 digital cameras and 0/3/0/7 employees.

This set of data, not to mention that it can't be compared with the peak period, even if it is compared with the data of previous years, it is also comprehensively lowered.

According to the National Business Daily, Canon's Zhuhai factory is currently on holiday, and employees have learned that the factory will be closed, and are now waiting for the severance payment compensation plan to land.

/kloc-On the afternoon of 0/4, relevant persons of Canon (China) responded that after Zhuhai factory shut down the production line of small digital cameras, there would be a few spare parts production lines. The above-mentioned people also told reporters that in the China market, Canon will still focus on SLR and micro-single in the future.

According to insiders, in order to reverse the situation, Canon Zhuhai tried to apply to the Japanese headquarters to open up more technical micro-single and SLR production lines, but it was rejected.

The once brilliant generation of digital camera giants has now drawn a bleak end in early 2022.