Outline

Corporate Profile

Company Name		Graphtec Corporation
Established		Mar. 30, 1949
Headquarters		503-10 Shinano-cho, Totsuka-ku Yokohama 244-8503, Japan
Products		Imaging products : Grit and Flatbed Cutter , Scanner etc Instrument products : Logger, Recorder etc.
Capital		3.0 billion yen
The Board of Directors	Chairman	Hideyoshi Sasaki
	President and CEO	Yasutaka Arakawa
	Managing Director	Hitoshi Nonaka
	Director	Hiroshi Sanda
	Auditor	Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Company Profile of Ai Holdings Corporation

Company Name	Ai Holdings Corporation
Established	April 2, 2007
Head Office	12-8 Nihonbashi Hisamatsucho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0005 Japan Tel: +81-3-3249-6335
Representative	Hideyoshi Sasaki, Chairman & CEO
Capital	JPY5 billion
Main Business	Management of operating subsidiaries and the overall group

History

1949	Established as Watanabe Laboratories Corporation
1958	Developed Japan’s first X-Y recorder
1961	Developed Japan’s first X-Y plotter
1971	Acquired a patent for the electrostatic adhesion method in Japan, U.S., UK, and Germany
1977	Developed the new thermal-transfer recording method “NiS” (Neo-inkless System) Name changed to Watanabe Measurement Equipment
1980	NiS receives the Invention Grand Prize Sekiya Achievement Award
1982	NiS was awarded the Invention Grand Prize from Japan’s Invention Promotion Association Launched the Digitizer Division
1983	Name changed to Graphtec Corporation
1985	Stock listed in the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
1987	Stock listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
1992	Established the Optical Measurement Division
1995	Established “Graphtec North America Inc.” in U.S.
1997	Acquired ISO9001 Certification
2001	Developed Japan‘s first large format scanner
2004	Acquired ISO14001 Certification Launched Instrument “GL Series” Launched New product for consumer industry “Craft ROBO”
2005	Name of Graphtec “North America Inc.” changed to “Graphtec America, Inc.”
2007	Business integrated with Dodwell B.M.S.Co.,Ltd. Established the holding company, AI Holdings Co.,Ltd. Established the business location  in The Netherlands Established the Representative Office in China
2009	Established ”Silhouette America,Inc.” In U.S.
2012	Established the Representative Office in Thailand Label Printer LCX603 received the 29th Kanagawa Prefecture’s Industrial Technology Development Award
2014	Launched the Industrial label printing business
2015	Established the software-developing company “Silhouette Research & Technology, Limited” in UK
2017	Merger with Neuron Corporation
2019	Merger with Advance Food Tec Corporation
2020	Established “Graphtec Asia Pacific Co.,Ltd.” In Thailand
2021	Established “Graphtec Europe B.V.” in Netherlands