| Jul. 1990 |
Completed construction of REI Georgia plant in suburbs of Atlanta as
fourth plant for Ricoh Electronics, Inc.
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| Sept.1990 |
Founded overseas subsidiary Ricoh Italia S.p.A.
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| Dec. 1990 |
Establishes the Environmental Administration Office to monitor the environmental
effects of the Ricoh Group's manufacturing processes and products.
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| 1991 |
Starts the ISO9000 Corporate Committee, a company wide organization for
obtaining ISO9000 series certification.
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| Jan. 1991 |
Founded Ricoh Asia Industry (Shenzhen) Ltd. (RAI) in China to manufacture
OA equipment.
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| Mar. 1991 |
Founded Dong Guan Tailien Optical Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, China, to manufacture
parts for compact cameras.
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| Apr. 1991 |
Ricoh California Research Center developed world's fastest color imaging
compression algorithm.
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| Aug. 1991 |
Completed Ricoh's Olympic Fax Network to connect International Olympic
Committee (IOC) to Olympic family.
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| 1992 |
Becomes an Olympic Games sponsor in the facsimile machine category and
starts building the Olympic Fax Network to link the global Olympic family.
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| Feb. 1992 |
Enacted Ricoh General Principles on the Environment to clarify Ricoh
Group's position on environmental preservation.
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| May 1992 |
Created thermal paper plant in Ricoh Industrie France S.A.
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| Jun. 1992 |
Completed construction of OPC system at Ricoh Numazu plant.
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| Sept.1992 |
Ricoh Unitechno Co., Ltd. became first subsidiary of Ricoh Group to obtain
ISO 9002 certification, followed by Atsugi Plant and Gotemba Plant; efforts in certification continued in accordance
with a Company wide development plan, which included both domestic and overseas operations.
Initiated full-scale entrance into CD business as part of efforts to address multimedia.
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| Apr. 1993 |
Ricoh UK Products Ltd. (RPL) became inaugural recipient of Queen's Award
for Environmental Achievement.
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| Oct. 1993 |
Signed Olympic Fax Network supplier contract with IOC.
Founded joint venture company Shanghai Ricoh Facsimile Co., Ltd. in China.
Founded joint venture company RPG Ricoh Ltd. in Bombay, India (disbanded in May 1998, and name changed to Ricoh
India Limited).
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| Dec. 1993 |
Initiated an internal project to promote entrepreneurial spirit.
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| May 1994 |
RPL received Highly Recommended prize in European Better Environment
Awards for industry '94 for chlorofluocarbon-free recycling system.
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| Oct. 1994 |
Initiated nationwide development of long-distance diagnostic service
for copiers in Japan.
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| Mar. 1995 |
Won top award from Japan's Minister of International Trade and Industry
for environmental activities, product assessment and recyclable design.
Ricoh Corporation makes Savin Corporation a wholly owned sales subsidiary.
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| May 1995 |
RICOH R1 compact camera was awarded Camera Grand Prix '95 Special Prize.
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| Sept.1995 |
Acquired NRG Group PLC (formerly Gestetner Holdings PLC) of United Kingdom
to reinforce overseas sales network.
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| Dec. 1995 |
Gotemba Plant obtained ISO/DIS 14001 certification, draft version of
international standard for environmental management.
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| Apr. 1, 1996 |
Hiroshi Hamada appointed chairman; Masamitsu Sakurai appointed president.
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| Jun. 1996 |
Environmental Protection Agency of United States awarded Ricoh Corporation
with ENERGY STAR Award (received five years running until 2000).
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| Jul. 1996 |
Inaugurated Aficio as unified global brand for Ricoh products.
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| Nov. 1996 |
Launched production of CD-RW discs.
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| Dec. 1996 |
Formed Ricoh Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. in Singapore.
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| Feb. 1997 |
Established Ricoh Kanto Recycling Center to disassemble and separate
recycled PPCs for energy reduction and recycling.
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| Mar. 1997 |
Founded Ricoh Silicon Valley, Inc. in California.
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| Oct. 1997 |
Formed joint venture company Mitsui-Ricoh CIS Ltd. in Russia with Mitsui & Co.,
Ltd.
Established Ricoh Latin America, Inc. in United States to manage sales in Central and South America.
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| Feb. 1998 |
RIFAX BL110 Shataro2 facsimile machine was awarded Japan Machinery Federation
President's Award at 18th Energy Saving Excellent Awards.
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| Aug. 1998 |
RAI became first Japanese-owned facsimile machine manufacturer to reach
1,000,000 unit production mark.
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| Dec. 1998 |
Awarded first place in second annual Environmental Management Survey
by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's top business daily (received three years running until 2000).
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| Jan. 1999 |
Merged Ricoh Technonet Co., Ltd. (Tokyo), Ricoh Technonet Co., Ltd. (Osaka)
and Ricoh Information Systems Co., Ltd., to form Ricoh Technosystems Co., Ltd.
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| May 1999 |
Awarded Minister of International Trade and Industry Prize in eighth
annual Global Environment Awards from Japan Industrial Journal.
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| Dec. 1999 |
Received Japan Quality Award.
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