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Manufacturing Subsidiaries
| Company name |
Country/Region
|
Est.
|
Emp.
|
Activities
|
| JAPAN |
| Canon Chemicals Inc. |
Japan |
May 50
|
1,338
|
R&D, cartridges, checimals, plastic precision-molded
parts |
| Oita Canon Inc. |
Japan |
Feb. 82
|
790
|
R&D, SLR and compact cameras, digital cameras, video
camcordes |
| Oita Canon Material Inc. |
Japan |
Jan. 98
|
193
|
Chemicals for copying machines and printers |
| Nagahama Canon Inc. |
Japan |
Sept. 88
|
1,140
|
LBPs, chemicals, Solar cells, Bubble Jet cartridges |
| Miyazaki Daishin Canon Co. , Ltd.* |
Japan |
Jan. 80 |
237
|
Bubble Jet printers |
| AMERICAS |
| Canon Business Machines, Inc |
U.S.A |
Oct.71
|
325
|
R&D, Bubble Jet printers, chemicals surface-mount
packaging |
| Canon Virginia, Inc |
U.S.A |
Nov. 85
|
1,398
|
Copying machines, LBPs, chemicals |
| South Tech, Inc. |
U.S.A |
April 89
|
258
|
Molded parts, presses parts, unit parts |
| Custom Integrated Technology, Inc. |
U.S.A |
May 95
|
73
|
Copying machine remanufacturing, LBPs |
| Industrial Resource Technologies, Inc. |
U.S.A |
Nov. 96
|
89
|
Cartridge recycling |
| C.S. Polymer, Inc |
U.S.A |
Feb. 88
|
12
|
Materials for chemicals |
| Canon Business Machines de Mexico, S.A de C.V. |
Mexico |
Sept. 88
|
1,101
|
Bubble Jet printers, printed circuits |
| EUROPE |
| Canon Giessen GmbH |
Germany |
July 72
|
487
|
Copying machines, Bubble Jet cartridges, chemicals |
| Canon Bretagne S.A |
France |
Aug. 83
|
629
|
Copying machines, chemicals, Cartridge recycling |
| Canon Manufacturing U.K, Ltd |
U.K |
March 91
|
166
|
Bubble Jet printers, Bubble Jet cartridges |
| Olivetti Canon Industriale S.p.A* |
Italy |
Jan. 87
|
372
|
R&D, copying machines |
| ASIA |
| Canon Inc, Taiwan |
Taiwan |
June 70
|
1,996
|
R&D, SLR and compact cameras, lenses, metal molds |
| Lotte Canon Co. Ltd.* |
R.O.K |
May 85
|
820
|
Copying machines, facsimile machines, chemicals |
| Canon Opto (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd |
Malaysia |
Dec. 88
|
2,965
|
Video camcorder lenses and other optical lenses |
| Canon Hi-Tech (Thailand) Ltd. |
Thailand |
Aug. 90
|
3,460
|
Bubble Jet printers, copying machines, Bubble Jet facsimile
machines |
| Canon Engineering (Thailand) Ltd |
Thailand |
Nov. 91
|
391
|
Plastic molds, molded parts |
| TECH Semiconducter Singapore Pte. Ltd |
Singapore |
May 91
|
1,492
|
Semiconductors |
| Canon Dalian Business Machines, Inc. |
P.R.C. |
Sept. 89
|
2,709
|
Cartridges, Cartridge recycling |
| Canon Zhubai, Inc |
P.R.C. |
Jan. 90
|
2,748
|
LBPs, compact camers, facsimile machines |
| Guan-Dong United Optical Instrument Co., Ltd. |
P.R.C. |
Nov. 95
|
167
|
Compact cameras |
| Tianjin Canon Co. Ltd. |
P.R.C. |
April 97
|
184
|
Copying machines |
(Note: Companies marked with a "*"
are non consolidated affiliates)
Manufacturing
Canon is working to achieve world-class quality at
all of its production facilities, and our originally developed manufacturing methods
are the key to such efforts. To effectively meet customer needs amid intensifying
competition in the world market and changes in the business environment, we are strengthening
the flexibility or our worldwide production organization. For example, we are establishing
global supply routes for component procurement to create an international structure
of responsibility distribution. At the same time, we are introducing more effective
manufacturing methods and production processes based on modular components. To use
time and space efficiently, we are working to reform the front lines of our production
organization. We are also developing technologies that further improve quality as
we pursue manufacturing on a global scale. In individual regions, Canon will strategically
relocate products and transfer technologies. In this way, we are working progress
toward an organization that undertakes optimal production that undertakes optimal
production activities worldwide.
Known, around the world, Canon's Laser beam printers
features a wide range of distinctive technologies, from their high-image quality
and high-performance engines and the polygon mirrors in their scanner motors and
toric lenses. To bring all of these originally developed technologies into perfect
harmony, we apply the production strengths of the entire Canon Group.
For example, our production of components for laser
beam printers take advantage of the capabilities of individual Canon Group production
sites. Canon Electronic Inc. produces polygon mirrors, Canon Precision Inc. the micromotors
that rotate the polygon mirrors at ultrahigh speeds, and Canon Inc.'s Utsunomiya
Plant the toric lenses. The engine units built from these components are incorporated
into laser beam printers under a global production structure designed to efficiently
reflect market trends. Nagahama Canon Inc. and Canon Inc.'s Ami and Toride plants
handle the job in Japan, Canon Virginia in the United States and Canon Zhuhai, Inc.
in China. Canon applies the strengths of a global corporate group to meet growing
demand around the world.
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