Murata operates both a sales branch and a large production site in the Philippines. Sales branch was established in 1998, and the factory, Philippine Manufacturing Co. of Murata, Inc. (PMM), in 2012. It is Murata's largest production site in Asia, capable of producing a variety of components. Operations started in the beginning of 2013 with the production of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors; and it is anticipated that other Murata products will also be manufactured there in the future.