Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses Celebrates 25th Anniversary

The operation ultimately outgrew its Chicago location, and, in 1984, Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses North America, as it was then called, expanded to the suburb of Arlington Heights with W.F. “Ric” Buchanan as its president. MLP U.S.A., Inc. formally became a U.S. corporation in April 1991.

Promoting from within
Buchanan headed up MLP U.S.A. until his retirement in 2002. He was succeeded by K.G. Katayama, then a 25-year veteran of the printing equipment industry who had held a number of management posts with parent company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. After his appointment concluded in 2006, he assumed another strategic assignment with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan.