- CEO
- Takuji Nakamura
- Full Time Employees
- 19,067
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Containers/Packaging
- Address
- Osaki Forest Building Tokyo Japan 141-8627
- IPO Date
- May 16, 1949
- Business
- Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd. (5901.T) serves as the holding company managing a group primarily engaged in manufacturing and selling packaging containers made from metal, plastic, paper, and glass; engineering, filling, and logistics services; steel plate products; functional materials; and real estate leasing. The company offers core products including metal cans, PET bottles and preforms, plastic caps, films, pouches, trays, and bottles; paper containers for food and beverages; glass bottles; aerosol and general filling products; automotive press dies; machinery for canning, bottling, and food processing; steel plates for cans, electronics, automotive parts, and construction; functional materials such as aluminum substrates for magnetic disks, optical films, glazes, pigments, gel coats, and trace element fertilizers; and leasing of office buildings and commercial facilities. These products and services target beverage, food, household products, healthcare, and industrial customers primarily in Japan, Asia, and internationally, with 79 production bases in Japan and 32 overseas.
Founded in 1917 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company holds top market shares in Japan of approximately 40% for metal cans, 30% for PET bottles (including preforms), and 60% for food and beverage paper containers.
Recent developments include the 2024 acquisition of Premier Centre Group in Malaysia to expand filling and packaging value chains in Southeast Asia; investments in Singapore-based startups ImpacFat Pte. Ltd. in 2025 for omega-3 ingredients from cell-based fish fat and Seadling in 2024 for sustainable seaweed farming; a 2025 partnership with the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and investment in Belgian firm Enfoil for next-generation flexible solar panels under the MiraNeo brand; completion of mass production systems for the EcoEnd next-generation aluminum beverage can lid reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40%; launch of the world's lightest aluminum cans and ultra-lightweight PET bottles; adoption of on-site solar electricity at multiple facilities via power purchase agreements to cut emissions; selection for the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index in December 2024; and a completed equity buyback of 6.69% of shares in 2025.