History：1943 - 1973 | SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.

Establishing our original glass screen business

1943	Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., is established; Keizo Ishida is named first president.
1946	Dainippon Screen targets becoming a comprehensive manufacturer of photographic reproduction equipment.
1946	Wood frame process camera developed.
1947	Tokujiro Ishida is named the company's second president.
1949	Tokyo office opens to promote sales and service in eastern Japan.
1953	-10th anniversary
1953	Dainippon Screen acquires land to build the Horikawa Plant for manufacturing photographic reproduction equipment.
1955	Dainippon Screen advances into supplying electronics components when its screen-making technology of engraving fine lines is applied successfully to producing metal meshes for television cameras. This work was undertaken at the request of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK).
1958	Dainippon Screen succeeds in mass-producing contact screens, the first domestic company to do so.
1958	President Tokujiro Ishida travels to the United States and Europe to study overseas prepress technology and markets.
1960	The company first develops shadow masks, metallic components for color TV CRTs.
1962	Dainippon Screen is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange and the Kyoto Stock Exchange.
	The company makes its first appearance at DRUPA, an international printing and reproduction equipment exhibition, held every four years in Germany.
	Dainippon Screen signs a contract to market Fairchild Inc.'s color scanner in Japan.
1964	The Auto Graver, an electronic machine used for engraving halftone blocks directly onto the plate from a reflection or transparency original, is launched. The Auto Graver also produces color-compensated separations directly from originals.
1965	Shadow masks for color TV CRTs are developed; full-scale production begins at a newly constructed facility at Hikone Plant two years later.
1966	The company opens is first overseas representative office, in Los Angeles.
	First domestically produced color scanner, the Scanagraph I, is introduced.
	Ultraprecise reduction camera for semiconductor production, the C-59 Ambassador, is introduced.
1967	The company's first overseas subsidiary, DS America, Inc., is established.
	The company’s first overseas Asian subsidiary, Great Ocean Industry Co., Ltd., is set up in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
	Stock is listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
1968	Production begins for aperture grilles for Trinitron color CRTs.
1968	First European representative sales office opens, in Dusseldorf.
1969	Stock is listed on the Nagoya Stock Exchange.
1970	Stock is listed on the First Sections of the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya stock exchanges.
1973	-30th anniversary
	The SG-701, an innovative direct color scanner, is introduced. Sales of the SG-701 in the next few years will set company records.