- Business
- Seiko Epson Corporation manufactures and markets printers, projectors, scanners, industrial robots, wearable products, and microdevices worldwide. The company operates through Printing Solutions; Visual Communications; and Manufacturing-related and Wearables segments, offering inkjet printers for office, home, and commercial/industrial applications including the EcoTank series and PrecisionCore printheads; serial impact dot matrix printers, page printers, color image scanners, dry process office papermaking systems, POS system printers, and label printers with related consumables; 3LCD projectors and smart glasses; industrial robots; wristwatches and watch movements under brands including Orient; quartz devices such as crystal units, oscillators, and sensors; CMOS LSIs; metal powders; and PCs. Headquartered in Suwa, Nagano, Japan, and founded in 1942, Seiko Epson maintains 89 group companies with 21 in Japan and 68 overseas, generating consolidated revenue of 1,362.9 billion yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025. Recent developments include the completion in October 2025 of a new 5.1-billion yen factory at subsidiary Tohoku Epson Corporation to quadruple inkjet printhead production capacity starting May 2026; the November 2025 announcement of an absorption-type merger with wholly owned subsidiary Orient Watch Co., Ltd., effective February 1, 2026, to streamline management resources while continuing Orient brand watch production; and the April 2025 establishment of Epson X Investment Corporation, a corporate venture capital subsidiary with a 5-billion yen fund managed in partnership with Global Brain Corporation to pursue open innovation and investments in synergistic ventures.