Toppan Printing

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. or simply Toppan is a Japanese global printing company. Toppan was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Tokyo. As of March 2013 the company has 169 subsidiary and affiliate companies. Toppan is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. engages in the commercial printing business. It operates through the following segments: Information and Communication, Living Environment, and Material Solutions. The Information and Communication segment offers securities-related documents, cards, business forms, commercial printing, and publications printing. The Living Environment segment plans, develops, manufactures, and sells packaging products, paper containers, plastic molded products, and ink. The Material Solutions segment produces and sells photomasks, leadframes, color filters for liquid crystal display, anti-reflection films, solar cell related materials, decorative paper/ film, and wallpaper. The company was founded by Nobukichi Kimura, Ginjiro Furuya, Shintaro Kawai, Takashi Ito, and Shinjiro Miwa on January 17, 1900 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.