Fujitsu Buys Site for Factory in Oregon

HILLSBORO, Ore. — Fujitsu America Inc. announced the $9.5 million purchase of a 120-acre parcel to build a 150,000-square-foot disk drive manufacturing plant that eventually will employ 400 people.

Construction of the $25 million plant is scheduled to begin in April or May and could be completed within a year. Production could begin by late 1986, officials said Thursday.

Fujitsu America, a subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd. of Japan, is the second largest producer of disk drives in the United States.