Epson Corporate, a part of Seiko Epson Corp., is a leading global supplier of high-performance components, including integrated circuits and crystal-based electronic devices. Epson Electronics America products are known for superior quality, functionality, compactness, and energy efficiency. Epson Toyocom cultivates and combines core technologies for timing, sensing, and optical devices. Epson Integrated Circuits (ICs) features the latest in power-, space-, and time-saving technologies.Established in 1942, Seiko Epson Corporation is a company engaging in the development, manufacturing, sales, marketing and servicing of information-related equipment, electronic devices, precision products and some other products. The company is headquartered in Nagano. As konwn to all, Epson developed the world's first miniprinter in 1969 and the Epson brand was established in 1975 which was in the hope of sending future "sons" of this EP out into the world. Epson received the 1992 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the company's 68 major business sites around the world obtained the ISO 14001 certification in 2001. All Epson plants in Japan acquired the ISO 9000 series certification for quality management system. Along with the continuous development, Epson was listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2003. To expand the market, Sanyo Epson Imaging Devices Corp. (now Epson Imaging Devices Corp.) was established in 2004 and Epson Toyocom Corporation was established in 2005. Epson is engaging in a broad line of products including imaging products, electronic devices and precision products. The imaging products include printers and projectors involving micro Piezo technology, printing technology, projection technology and 3LCD technology. The electronic devices include quartz devices, displays and some other electronic components such as semiconductors, etc. The precision products cover watches, plastic corrective lenses, and factory automation equipment. Epson is always pursuing innovation in compact, energy-saving, high-precision technologies and persisting on the spirit of creativity and challenge to create invaluable products and services to customers and become a community of robust businesses.
