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(hereafter Toppan Printing; Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President &amp; CEO: Naoki Adachi) has obtained the international standard for information security systems, &quot;ISO/IEC 27001:2005&quot;, at 2 of its semiconductor photomask plants: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd's Asaka Plant (Niiza, Saitama, Japan) and Toppan Photomasks Korea (Ichon, Korea), a subsidiary of Toppan Photomasks, Inc. (TPI).      </description>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:00:00 CST</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Printing is selected as one of the "100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" for the second year running</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/080130_top_sustainable.html</link>      <description>Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (hereafter Toppan Printing; Head office: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo; President &amp; CEO: Naoki Adachi) has been recognized as one of the &quot;Global 100: Most Sustainable Corporations in the World&quot; for the second year running.      </description>      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:00:00 CST</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Photomasks and CEA-Leti Announce Collaboration to Study Double Patterning</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/070918_leti_annc.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. and CEA-Leti, a leading global technology research and development organization, announced today they have signed a joint development agreement to explore double patterning techniques for extending 193nm lithography to next-generation semiconductors.      </description>      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Receives World Class Supplier Achievement Award from Spansion</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/070806_spansion_award.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. announced today that it received the "World Class Supplier Achievement Award" for 2006 from Spansion, Inc., the world's largest pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions.      </description>      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Photomasks Recognized as 'Supplier of the Year' By X-FAB</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/070703_xfab_award.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. announced today that it has received the "Supplier of the Year" Award for 2006 from X-FAB Silicon Foundries, a leading global foundry group for analog/mixed-signal semiconductors.      </description>      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Photomasks Receives Freescale Semiconductor's 'Gold Performance Excellence Award' for Third Straight Year</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/070627_freescale_award.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. announced today that it received a "Gold Performance Excellence Award" for 2006 from Freescale Semiconductor for the third consecutive year. Toppan was the only global photomask supplier to be recognized for outstanding performance in five critical areas, and one of only four suppliers overall to receive the award.      </description>      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Photomasks Presents ASMC &quot;Best Paper Award&quot; To Hanno Melzner of Infineon Technologies</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/070611_asmc_best_paper.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. today will present Hanno Melzner of Infineon Technologies AG the &quot;ASMC 2006 Toppan Photomasks Best Paper Award&quot; during the 18th Annual IEEE/SEMI&#174; Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC).      </description>      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Honored as &apos;Best Supplier&apos; by SSMC</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/070427_ssmc_award.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. announced today that it is one of only six suppliers - and the only photomask maker - to receive Special Tribute and Recognition (STAR) from Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Co. Pte. Ltd. (SSMC), a leading provider of CMOS foundry services. Toppan's "Best Supplier Award" for 2006 recognizes the company for going "the extra mile" for its foundry partner.      </description>      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Receives Samsung Supplier Award</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/070328_samsung_award.html</link>      <description>Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. announced today that it received a "Best Partner" award among overseas suppliers for 2006 from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The award recognizes Toppan's outstanding support for providing advanced memory and logic photomask technologies, enabling Samsung to achieve higher efficiencies in semiconductor fabrication.      </description>      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2007 08:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Building on Its Decade of Leadership in China, Toppan Photomasks Expands Shanghai Site</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/060710_shanghai_expansion.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. today announced plans to expand its Shanghai facility, adding capacity to produce photomasks used to manufacture semiconductor devices with 180nm design rules, and additional lithography and inspection capacity for 250nm-and-above products.      </description>      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Photomasks Earns Freescale Semiconductor's 'Gold Performance Excellence Award'</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/060622_freescale_award.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. announced today that it received a "Gold Performance Excellence Award" for 2005 from Freescale Semiconductor. Toppan Photomasks was the only global photomask supplier to be recognized for exemplary performance in the areas of cost, quality, delivery, service and technology.      </description>      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>    <item>      <title>Toppan Photomasks Names David Murray as President and CEO</title>      <link>http://www.photomask.com/news/recent_news/060522_new_ceo.html</link>      <description>Toppan Photomasks, Inc. announced today that company veteran David S. Murray has been named president and CEO, effective June 1, 2006. Murray succeeds Marshall C. Turner, who, during the past three years, returned the organization to profitability and growth and guided the company through its successful merger with Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. Murray also will assume Turner's seat on Toppan Photomasks' board of directors.      </description>      <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 07:00:00 CDT</pubDate>    </item>  </channel></rss>