Toppan Receives Samsung Supplier Award.Toppan is the Only Mask Maker to Receive 'Best Partner Award' Among Overseas Suppliers TOKYO -- Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. announced today that it received a "Best Partner" award among overseas suppliers for 2006 from Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. Co. Ltd. The award recognizes Toppan's outstanding support for providing advanced memory and logic photomask An opaque image on a translucent plate that is used as a light filter to transfer an image from one device to another. See chip. technologies, enabling Samsung to achieve higher efficiencies in semiconductor fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. . Toppan, which has a history of successful collaboration with the chip giant on many key manufacturing projects, was one of twenty top overseas suppliers and the only photomask supplier to receive this award. Moreover, the award demonstrates the competitive advantages provided by Toppan's integrated global network of facilities and its diverse worldwide supply capabilities. The photomasks manufactured in partnership with Samsung required seamless collaboration among Toppan facilities and teams in Asaka, Japan; Ichon, South Korea and Round Rock, Texas. "Toppan's commitment toward perfection shows in its distinguished photomask technology," said Jong-Yong Yun, vice chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Samsung Electronics. "The Best Partner award recognizes the successful partnership Samsung has maintained with Toppan and the company's commitment to meet Samsung's demands in a very competitive marketplace." This recognition marks the third consecutive year that Toppan's superior technology, service and support have resulted in supplier awards from Samsung. The 2006 award was presented in Seoul during Samsung's "Partner's Day 2007" to Akihiro Nagata, senior managing director, Semiconductor Solutions Division, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. "This supplier award from Samsung is a tribute to Toppan employees throughout our network of facilities who worked diligently dil·i·gent adj. Marked by persevering, painstaking effort. See Synonyms at busy. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin d and under tight time constraints In law, time constraints are placed on certain actions and filings in the interest of speedy justice, and additionally to prevent the evasion of the ends of justice by waiting until a matter is moot. to deliver the logic and memory photomask technologies required by one of our valued partners," said Nagata. "The award also highlights the importance of the critical synergies - unique to the photomask industry - of our facilities and teams in key chip-manufacturing regions. Our network and our teamwork enable Toppan to reliably supply leading photomask technologies to customers in all key chip-making centers." About Toppan Printing Founded in 1900, Toppan Printing has branched into seven diverse business fields, including security cards, commercial printing, publications printing, packaging, industrial materials, electronics and optronics Optronics, or optoelectronics in its less abbreviated form, is the science and technology making use of optics and electronics. It is sometimes synonymous with photonics, however the latter has a lesser emphasis on electronics. . In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006, Toppan posted revenues of [yen]1,548.2 billion (more than US$13 billion), an increase of 9.5 percent as compared to the previous fiscal year, and ended the year with approximately 36,000 employees. For more information visit www.toppan.co.jp. About Toppan Photomasks Toppan Photomasks, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., a diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s global company with revenue in excess of $13 billion in fiscal 2006. Together with the photomasks business of Toppan Printing, the company forms the world's premier photomask provider. Utilizing operations within the industry's most advanced and largest network of manufacturing facilities, Toppan Photomasks offers a comprehensive range of photomask technologies and research and development capabilities to meet the increasingly sophisticated and divergent di·ver·gent adj. 1. Drawing apart from a common point; diverging. 2. Departing from convention. 3. Differing from another: a divergent opinion. 4. product-and-service requirements of the global semiconductor industry. Toppan Photomasks is headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. For more information, visit www.photomask.com. |
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