Toppan Insatsu
| Toppan Insatsu
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3629000005 |
| founding | 1900 |
| Seat |
Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
|
| management | Shingo Kaneko (Chairman) Hideharu Maro (President) |
| Number of employees | 51,712 |
| sales | 1.46 trillion Yen (12.1 billion euros ) |
| Branch | Printing industry , electronics |
| Website | www.toppan.com |
| As of March 31, 2019 | |
Toppan Insatsu KK ( Japanese 凸版 印刷 株式会社 Toppan Insatsu Kabushiki-gaisha , English Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. ) is a Japanese printing group based in Chiyoda . The company is active in the areas of security , packaging and decor printing and in the electronics field offers, among other things, photo masks , capacitive sensors for touchscreens and design services for integrated circuits .
history
Toppan Printing was founded in 1900 by the two engineers Enkichi Kimura and Ginjiro Furuya, as well as three other investors. Kimura and Furuya both previously worked for the Japanese Treasury Department's printing house and were introduced to contemporary printing technology in the 1880s by Edoardo Chiossone . The two secured their first orders in the cigarette industry, which at the time was experiencing increased demand for more complex packaging. With urbanization in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century and an incipient consumer culture, the demand for printed advertising material also increased, which benefited the newly founded company. In 1917, Toppan took over the company from one of its former managers. This company relied on offset printing early on and, with the takeover, brought its expertise in the field of offset printing to the company. During the Second World War, Toppan was very busy and, for example, printed war bonds and other certificates on behalf of the state. After the war, the company benefited from new government contracts to print banknotes, postage stamps and lottery tickets. At the same time, Toppan won an official tender to design new ¥ 1000, ¥ 500, ¥ 100, ¥ 10, ¥ 5 and ¥ 1 banknotes. In addition to strong success in the classic printing business, especially due to the high demand in advertising and packaging printing due to increased consumption by consumers, Toppan invested in the development of a new business area in the manufacture of electronic components from the late 1950s.
Trivia
In 2013, Toppan set a record when the world's smallest printed book was unveiled. The dimensions of this 22-page book are 0.74 mm × 0.75 mm. The characters measure a size of around 0.01 millimeters.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Toppan: Officers , accessed July 26, 2019.
- ↑ Toppan: Financial Factsheet , accessed July 26, 2019.
- ↑ Toppan: Our Business , accessed July 27, 2019.
- ↑ Toppan: Our History , accessed July 27, 2019.
- ↑ RP Online: The world's smallest book comes from Japan , accessed July 27, 2019.