FACTBOX-Refinery, factory disruptions in Japan from typhoon

(Updates refinery shipment delays)

Oct 8 (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon swept across Japan's main islands on Thursday, closing car factories, stranding travellers and disrupting refinery shipments. [ID:nT350211]

Following are details of refinery and other factory disruptions reported so far from Typhoon Melor.

AUTOS

* Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said it would halt operations at its 12 parent company car plants in central Japan for the day on Thursday. [ID:nTKF106664]

* Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T) said it would halt operations for the day at six car and bike plants in central Japan.

* Honda Motor Co (7267.T) said it would halt operations at a factory in central Japan for the day.

* Top Japanese auto parts supplier Denso Corp (6902.T) is suspending production at all factories on Thursday.

* Daihatsu Motor Co (7262.T) is suspending production for the first shift at all of its domestic factories, and the second shift at one plant.

REFINERIES

* Nippon Oil Corp 5001.T said it restarted marine and land oil product shipments at its Osaka refinery but marine oil shipments at its Negishi and Sendai refineries were still suspended.

* Cosmo Oil Co (5007.T) said marine oil shipments at its Chiba refinery were suspended.

* Idemitsu Kosan Co (5019.T) said marine oil shipments at its Chiba refinery were getting back to normal, and land shipments had were now running on schedule, along with land and marine oil shipments from its other plants.

* Japan Energy Corp said it had restarted marine oil shipments from its Mizushima refinery, but marine oil shipments from its Kashima plant were still suspended.

* Showa Shell Sekiyu KK (5002.T) said marine and land shipments at group refiner Toa Oil's Keihin refinery were now running on schedule.

* Nansei Sekiyu KK said it resumed marine shipments from Thursday afternoon at its Nishihara refinery in Okinawa, after halting them from Sunday.

TECHNOLOGY

* Sony Corp (6758.T) resumed operations at its broadcasting equipment plant in Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan, at 1 p.m. (0400 GMT) after having halted morning production. The company had workers at its camcorder and LCD TV assembly plants in Aichi prefecture and digital camera factory in Gifu prefecture stay home until 10 a.m. (0100 GMT), delaying the start of daily operations by a few hours. Aichi and Gifu are also in central Japan.