FUJIFILM Corporation announced on October 29, 2026, that it plans to invest approximately ¥10 billion to raise magnetic data-storage tape production capacity to about five times its fiscal 2025 level. The project is planned for fiscal 2026–2028 at the Kanagawa Factory, Odawara Site, in Japan, with production focused primarily on FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 10.
What Fujifilm’s fivefold target covers
| Project detail | Announced plan |
| Investment | Approximately ¥10 billion |
| Capacity target | About 5× fiscal 2025 production levels |
| Planned investment period | Fiscal 2026–2028 |
| Location | Kanagawa Factory, Odawara Site, Japan |
| Main product focus | FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 10 |
The fivefold figure is a planned capacity target measured against fiscal 2025 production. It is a relative measure, not a cartridge count. Mugglehead reports that the announcement sets no annual production milestones or absolute output baseline, so the target cannot be translated into a specific number of additional cartridges.
LTO-10’s native capacity and compressed maximum
The expansion focuses mainly on FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 10, which Fujifilm launched in 2025. Mugglehead reports 40 TB of native capacity per cartridge and up to 100 TB at a 2.5:1 compression ratio. The 100 TB figure depends on compression; it is not the native capacity.
Mugglehead also reports maximum transfer rates of up to 400 MB/s in native mode and up to 1,000 MB/s with compression. Fujifilm says LTO-10 uses fine hybrid magnetic particles combining barium-ferrite and strontium-ferrite technologies.
Why Fujifilm says archive demand is growing
Fujifilm attributes rising archiving needs to generative AI and cloud services, including data produced through AI training and inference. The company also points to offline tape storage as a way to protect archived data from threats such as ransomware. These are Fujifilm’s stated reasons for expanding production and its description of tape’s archive use.
