Screen (USA) Turns 40

Screen (USA) recently marked the 40th anniversary of its founding. It started out as the first overseas subsidiary of Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The parent company, with headquarters in Kyoto, Japan, was the outgrowth of a manufacturing concern dating back to the mid-1800s. In 1868, Saigiro Ishida established a copper plate and lithographic printing shop called Ishida Kyokuzan Printing Works. Saigiro Ishida was the great-grandfather of Dainippon Screen’s chairman and CEO, Akira Ishida.