Toyo Seikan Group at a Glance
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TOYO SEIKAN GROUP
Who We Are
We are a leading manufacturer
of packaging containers,
which are essential to people’s daily life.
Toyo Seikan (the predecessor of Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.) was established in 1917 by Tatsunosuke Takasaki, a business man who also demonstrated his ability in politics.
The company has grown to a world-class comprehensive packaging manufacturer through delivering a wide range of packaging containers that utilize features of various materials such as metal, plastic, paper and glass. Its products have been supporting every aspect of daily living.
Understand the Toyo Seikan Group through Numbers
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Established
1917 -
Number of Group’s Employees
19,976(as of March 31, 2023)
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Number of group companies
(as of March 31, 2023)
Our group companies operate globally,
with 45 of them in Japan and 49 overseas.
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Market capitalization
Approx. 370billion
yen(as of March 31, 2023)
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Sales mix by segment
(as of March 31, 2023)
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Net sales & Operating income
- Net sales: 906 billion yen
- Operating income: 7.3 billion yen
(as of March 31, 2023)
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Financial goals for the last year of "the Mid-term Management Plan 2025"
(FY2025)- Net sales: 850 billion yen
- Operating income: 50 billion yen
ENVIRONMENT
The Environment Surrounding
Toyo Seikan Group Holdings
Plastic-free movement gains momentum globally
Global movement for a plastic-free environment is accelerating with more countries banning the use of plastic straws and plastic shopping bags to address the problem of marine plastic pollution. Meanwhile, attention to plastic recycling is growing in Japan as the government has formulated its strategy for plastic resource recycling.
Measures against single-use plastics taken by countries worldwide
* This chart is scrolled
| Target | Approaches | Major countries /regions introducing measures |
|---|---|---|
| Disposable shopping bags | Imposing charges/taxes | South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Israel, Botswana, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Fiji, Colombia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Cyprus |
| Ban on manufacturing, sale, use, etc. | Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Taiwan, India, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, 25 African nations (including Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal and South Africa), Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Marshall Islands, Palau, Antigua and Barbuda, Haiti, Panama, Belize, France | |
| Packaging containers | Ban on sale | France |
| Ban on free provision | Taiwan(The government has announced a planned ban.) | |
| Straws | Ban on sale | United Kingdom(The government has announced a planned ban.) |
| Ban on provision at stores and restaurants | Taiwan(The government has announced a planned ban.) | |
| Cutlery | Ban on sale | France |
Source: The Ministry of Environment’s report on national and international status of plastic waste issues (August 2018)
APPROACH
Capitalize on Our Strength
We find solutions by leveraging the Group’s strength
We understand that we must sincerely face the current plastic-free movement since we are delivering to the society a great volume of plastic products, including PET bottles for beverage and plastic containers for food and household products.
Our strength lies in our comprehensive ability to serve various packaging containers made of different types of materials such as metal, plastic, paper and glass. With a great deal of variations of our containers, we offer optimal solutions corresponding to changes in the needs of customers and the society.
As we celebrated our 100th anniversary in 2017, we have chosen a theme for the next 100 years: “Offering an environmentally-friendly systems.” We also focus on “Propositions for more advanced functions and lower environmental impact of packaging containers that are achieved through the development of paper and film materials”, which is one of the key measures formulated in the Mid-term Management Plan 2025 launched in 2021. In addition to our present product line-up, we are working on the development of new paper containers and biodegradable packages that can help find solutions to the plastic-free challenge.
As a comprehensive packaging manufacturer, we will commit ourselves to global environmental protection through the implementation of these measures, thereby contributing to the creation of a sustainable society.
Paper lids 
PA-PAUCH
(Paper package pouch)
Ovenable paper containers
(Duplex printing)
Large-size embossed paper containers
(Duplex printing)
