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Murakami Screen was established in 1965 by Shizuo Murakami in Chiba, Japan.

 

Shizuo started out in a different company distributing dyes for the textile / fabric industry in 1949 after coming back from Siberia and looked towards screen printing when he found out designs can be printed on to fabrics. He expanded the business first by actually printing for a scarf manufacturer and realized that business can be made with providing the materials to print.

Development of transistors and PCBs were occurring around the 1950s and in 1955 Sony came out with the first made in Japan transistor radio. Shizuo Murakami was already looking at screen printing for electronics and this confirmed the need for it. Although, the industry was still premature around that time and without full support from management, he decided to embark on this journey on his own. Screen printing was rather non-existent in Japan and it can be said that he advanced the screen printing industry as a whole, along with few other key people.

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Once establishing Murakami Screen, we focused on providing processed screens, emulsions, and related products for screen making. Few years in, we started to produce screens for ceramics that helped the company grow and is still one of our key business. Household electronics were widely becoming available year after year and the business in ceramics provided a stable foundation to pursue business in electronics screen printing.

Through the 1970s to 1980s, we continue to expand our business and opened new offices and factories in Japan. In 1984, working with professors and universities, we successfully commercialized the first PVA-SBQ emulsion in the industry, often referred to as pure photopolymer. With that, we rapidly expanded into other countries in Asia and established Murakami Screen USA in 1988. Around this time we started to expand our business in textile printing.

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Fast forward to now, PVA-SBQ emulsions is still widely used and we have become one of the largest producers of photo emulsions in the world and it is because of the vision our founder, Shizuo Murakami had, with employees materializing that vision.