Fujifilm plans ¥10 billion tape expansion to lift capacity fivefold

Fujifilm plans to invest approximately ¥10 billion at its Kanagawa Factory’s Odawara site to lift data-storage magnetic-tape shipment capacity to about five times its fiscal 2025 level, the company announced on October 29.

Running from fiscal 2026 through fiscal 2028, the investment will fund expanded manufacturing facilities and additional personnel. Fujifilm said the project will primarily support its latest-generation FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium10 tape and will be its largest investment to date in facilities dedicated to LTO tape.

Fujifilm linked the expansion to rising archival demand associated with generative AI and cloud services, including data generated through AI training and inference. The evidence reviewed for this story does not independently establish that link.

For long-term storage, magnetic tape can hold large data volumes at relatively low cost, and its cartridges can be physically isolated from networks. Fujifilm said it launched LTO Ultrium10 in 2025 using proprietary fine hybrid magnetic particles based on barium-ferrite and strontium-ferrite technologies. The company did not disclose its fiscal 2025 shipment capacity in cartridges, data volume or another absolute production unit, nor did it give an exact completion date within fiscal 2028.