Canon in Asia
Canon in Asia (outside Japan)
Canon established a presence in Asia in 1970 when Canon opened a manufacturing facility in Taiwan. Today, Asia has become an important sales & marketing and manufacturing base for Canon with 32,000 employees and operations in 10 countries and regions including Mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Sales & Marketing
Canon has 2 regional headquarters in Asia. Canon China serves North Asia and Canon Singapore serves South & Southeast Asia. These 2 headquarters spearhead sales and marketing activities which includes implementing integrated customer solutions, and managing Canon sales subsidiaries, representative offices and independent authorized distributors in their respective regions.
Manufacturing
Canon has 16 manufacturing facilities in Asia outside Japan. The manufacturing facilities manufacture a wide range of Canon products and parts ranging from optical lens to cameras, from copying machines to toner cartridges, and semiconductors.
Company Name |
Activity |
| Mainland China | |
|---|---|
| Canon Dalian Business Machines, Inc. | Toner cartridges, toner cartridge recycling, LBPs |
| Canon Zhuhai, Inc. | Compact cameras, digital cameras, LBPs, MFPs, image scanners, contact image sensors |
| Guang-Dong United Optical Instrument Co., Ltd. | Compact cameras |
| Tianjin Canon Co., Ltd. | Manufacturing and sales of copying machines |
| Canon Zhongshan Business Machines, Co., Ltd. | LBPs |
| Canon (Suzhou) Inc. | Colour and monochrome digital copying machines |
| Canon Finetech Industries Development Co., Ltd. | Manufacturing and sales of printers and business machine peripherals |
| Canon Finetech (Suzhou) Business Machines Inc. | Digital printers, peripherals, service parts |
| Korea | |
| Lotte Canon Co., Ltd | Copying machines, facsimile machines, chemical products |
| Malaysia | |
| Canon Opto (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. | Optical lens parts, digital and compact cameras, EF lenses |
| Canon Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. | Precision components |
| Taiwan | |
| Canon Inc., Taiwan | SLR and compact cameras, EF and other lenses, precision-metal molds |
| Thailand | |
| Canon Hi-Tech (Thailand) Ltd | Bubble Jet printers, personal-use copying machines, multifunction facsimile machines |
| Canon Engineering (Thailand) Ltd. | Plastic molds, molded parts |
| Vietnam | |
| Canon Vietnam Co. Ltd. | Bubble Jet Printers |
Research & Development
An inventor of original technologies, Canon commits 10% of its annual sales revenue into Research & Development (R&D) and is also consistently one of the top recipients of U.S. patents.
Asia is home to 3 of Canon's global network of 9 R&D facilities worldwide. Located in Mainland China, Philippines and India, the R&D facility in Mainland China focuses on Chinese-language processing, image processing technologies and internet-related applications. The R&D facility in Philippines specializes in the development of electronic application equipment and software, and in India, Canon develops image-processing and other software. Canon is moving towards the day when products will be developed and produced in Asia specifically for the growing Asian market.
Procurement
There are 2 procurement centers located in Hong Kong. The procurement centers sources for high quality materials, parts and products for distribution to Canon manufacturing facilities around the world.
Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Established in 1979, Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd. is Canon's regional headquarters for South & South East Asia. As the regional headquarters for South & Southeast Asia, Canon Singapore oversees both regional and domestic sales & marketing activities in Singapore. In the region, we cover 23 markets including subsidiaries in India, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.