Fire at Micron's Taichung Factory

TapTechNews June 22nd news, Micron Technology announced on Friday that a fire broke out in its factory located in Taichung on Thursday night. Fortunately, no casualties have been reported in this fire, and the factory has resumed normal operation for now.

In its announcement, Micron said that after the fire occurred, the automatic fire extinguishing system in the factory played a role and quickly controlled the fire. Based on the preliminary conclusion drawn from the on-site report, the cause of the fire was a high-pressure gas cylinder leakage in the supply room, and the specific situation is still under investigation.

The emergency response team of Micron's factory directed on the scene and immediately evacuated employees. Dozens of firefighters arrived at the scene and quickly controlled the fire situation. The report shows that about 2 square meters of space was burned, and the cause of the high-pressure gas leakage is still being further investigated.

It is not yet clear what the follow-up impact caused by this fire. TapTechNews note: Sometimes a fire can lead to an increase in product prices. The factory of SK Hynix located in Wuxi, Jiangsu, had an explosion accident on September 4, 2013, and the fire was extinguished within 2 hours and partially resumed operation a few days later, resulting in a maximum increase of 19% in its memory prices in 2013.