From Ycomm Europe to Yamagata Europe

Ycomm Europe, a daughter company of Japanese printing group Yamagata Corporation, proudly announces its new name, Yamagata Europe. A reception for clients and suppliers is held in the foyer of the Sint Niklaas City Theatre (Stadsschouwburg) on 2 December to herald this event. The change of name, which brings various sister companies in Europe, South-East Asia, China and the United States under a single banner, corresponds, not coincidentally, with the hundredth anniversary of the Japanese mother company.

Ycomm Europe was established in 1998 by Geert Benoit. During the past four years the company has undergone tremendous expansion during which the number of employees has risen from four to twenty two. Yamagata Europe has grown to become a professional and mature player in the European documentation market that offers its clients from various sectors integrated solutions to their printing and translation needs.

The "Print & Supply" business unit arranges the output and logistics for user manuals, brochures and stickers. The devoted project managers provide important added value through their considerable experience with complex supply chains, satisfying extremely high quality requirements and providing on-demand services such as distributed print in Eastern Europe and China. In 2003, Ycomm Europe was awarded the Sony Green Partner certificate in recognition of its system for total traceability of goods and materials.

The translation department has experienced the most growth and includes not only experienced, client-oriented project managers but also technically-oriented computational linguists and specialised desktop publishers. Together they ensure that every translation is subjected to the strongest quality controls, that the translation processes are efficient and fully optimised, and that the translation memories and terminology databases are well managed. Yamagata Europe is also the developer and distributor of a software application that makes it possible to carry out automated quality controls of translations and translation memories.

Yamagata Europe is a proactive company that does not wait for problems to force it to develop solutions. It strives continuously for improvement in its workflows and development of new concepts.

100 Years of Printing

1906 Yamagata Printing Company founded
1945 Reorganized company as Yamagata Printing Co., Ltd.
1978 Switched from letterpress printing to offset printing. Introduced process printing and computerized typesetting.
1983 Established Yamagata Technical Center and introduced CAD system
1984 Established Yamagata Printing Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
1987 Introduced integrated production system from planning and manuscript writing to printing, binding and delivery
1988 Completed expansion of manual printing and binding division of Fukushima factory
1989 Established International Technoprint, Inc. (San Diego, USA)
1998 Established Ycomm Co., Ltd. (Changed name) Established Ycomm Europe NV (Belgium)
1999 Established Printelligence (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. (China)
2000 Completed Yamagata Printing Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Hagiwara Factory (Gifu prefecture) Established Printelligence (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. Opened Page Factory Co., Ltd. Shanghai Office (China)
2002 Established Ycomm (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (China) Established Printelligence (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. (China) Established PF 3D Works MSC Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia)
2003 Merged Ycomm and Page Factory
2005 100th anniversary of Yamagata Corporation and brand unification of subsidiaries

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