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ABOUT
US Established in 1989, Yamagata America, Inc.
helps companies transcend language, cultural and geographic
barriers to effectively communicate with customers around
the world. Copy is translated to accurately reflect
regional nuances and cultural tradition. Web sites,
data sheets and product manuals are produced with the
right look for target markets. Documents are printed
and distributed when and where they are needed.
Yamagata America is a division of YAMAGATA Corporation, which has been providing full publishing and printing services for a wide range of clients for more than a century. YAMAGATA companies in Japan, China, Asia, Europe and the United States include printing facilities, technical document companies and Web content development firms.
Services
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Global production, printing,
distribution, and logistics system |
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Professional writing and design |
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Translation |
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XLdoc Web Marketing Portal |
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On-time service and product delivery |
Customer Driven
Yamagata America works closely with numerous
digital print facilities and expert native-tongue translators
around the world. This allows us to provide U.S.-based
companies with a single point of contact for developing
manuals, user guides, and marketing collateral. Clients
include Fortune 500 companies, such as Sony, Panasonic,
Toshiba, Fujitsu and Honda.
Yamagata provides global business and manufacturing
expertise with valuable knowledge of NAFTA processes,
Maquiladora operations, and quality control. These localization
services ensure that company materials correctly reflect
the language, culture, and other unique characteristics
of local markets. Today, Yamagata produces over 15 million
product manuals around the world every month.
Yamagata also has years of real-world experience with
notoriously confusing documentation laws in the United States.
Using its thorough “Best Practices” assessment,
Yamagata carefully inspects user manuals for content
flow, design, and page sequence relating to safety information
and hazard warnings.
With ISO 9001:2000 and ISO14001:2004 certifications,
Yamagata is dedicated to constantly improving its business
practices. These prestigious certifications guarantee
that every aspect of Yamagata business, from tools and
processes to the final product, are both of the highest
quality and environmentally safe.
100 Years of Printing Solutions
| 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 YAMAGATA
(SINGAPORE) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) |
| 1989 |
Established YAMAGATA AMERICA, INC. (San Diego, USA) |
| 1991 |
Established YAMAGATA
(MALAYSIA) Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia) |
| 1995 |
Established YAMAGATA
(THAILAND) Co., Ltd. (Thailand) |
| 1998 |
Established YAMAGATA
EUROPE NV (Belgium) |
| 1999 |
Established YAMAGATA
(Xiamen) Co., Ltd. (China) |
| 2000 |
Completed YAMAGATA Printing
Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Hagiwara Factory (Gifu prefecture),
Established YAMAGATA (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. (China) |
| 2001 |
Established YAMAGATA
INTECH (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (China) |
| 2002 |
Established YAMAGATA
(Wuxi) Co., Ltd. (China), Established PF 3D Works
MSC Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia) |
| 2003 |
Established YAMAGATA
(Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. (China) |
| 2005 |
Established YAMAGATA
VIETNAM Co., Ltd. (Vietnam) |
| 2006 |
Opened representative
office in Seoul, Korea. (Korea) |
| 2007 |
Yamagata America earned ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certifications. |
| 2008 |
Added Branch office in San Diego (downtown), U.S.A |
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