- Business
- RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION manufactures and sells printing equipment, including high-speed inkjet printers under the ComColor brand such as the ORPHIS, GL, FW, GD, FT and EX series; digital duplicators under the RISOGRAPH brand such as the MH, SF E II and KS series; digital screen makers under the GOCCOPRO and MiScreen a4 brands; and the Integlide inkjet print engine for on-demand package printing on cardboard, kraft bags and paper containers; as well as related consumables including oil-based pigment inks, emulsion inks and screen masters; the company also provides application software, cloud services such as Sukurire for school communications, Yomiyas for document readability assessment and Digipal for digital teaching materials, and real estate leasing. RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION operates in the printing equipment industry, serving educational institutions, government agencies, corporations and printing businesses with products noted for high-speed performance, low running costs and eco-friendly features like rice bran-based inks and energy-efficient designs; it maintains production facilities in Japan, China and Thailand, with sales networks spanning over 190 countries and regions including subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Founded in 1946 and incorporated in 1955, the company maintains headquarters at 5-34-7 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8385, Japan, and employs 1,538 people domestically with 2,859 in the group as of March 31, 2025; shares trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market under ticker 6413. In recent developments, RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION established RISO TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION on April 1, 2024, to acquire the inkjet head business from Toshiba Tec Corporation and its subsidiary for 6,436 million yen, with operations commencing July 1, 2024, to bolster inkjet technology development, manufacturing and sales; the company launched the Integlide series in 2024 for short-run package printing, the Yomiyas cloud service in 2023 and the Digipal service in 2025; it retired 4 million treasury shares in May 2023 and purchased additional shares in fiscal 2024 and 2025 to enhance capital efficiency under the RISO Vision 25 medium-term plan through March 2025, which targets inkjet business expansion.