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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Monday announced its strategy to create a disk drive "mega manufacturing center" in Shenzhen, China. The new facility will represent an investment of up to $500 million when fully realized, and align disk drive final assembly with existing Shenzhen-based component manufacturing and an extensive supplier network. Hitachi expects the manufacturing center to employ nearly 7,000 people in its first phase to meet the growing demand for hard disk drives. The project, which initially includes construction of a 35,000-square-meter manufacturing facility, is expected to begin in Q4 2004.