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Dai Nippon Printing opens FIO Lab manufacturing technology co-creation center in Tsukuba

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.Tsukuba, IbarakiPublished
InvestmentNot disclosed
PhasePlanned
Start—
CompletionAug 2026

Dai Nippon Printing will open the FIO Lab at its Tsukuba Integrated Development Center in August 2026. The R&D facility will provide practical manufacturing-like environments for validating AI, robotics, equipment design, quality control and process-control technologies with corporate, university and research partners, supporting deployment across DNP manufacturing sites.

Project facts

Owner
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Listing
7912 Tokyo
Facility
R&D facility
Sector
Machinery & robotics
Location
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Investment
Not disclosed
Completion
Aug 2026
Announced
Aug 27, 2026
Themes
AI-infrastructure

Figures and schedules are as announced by the company or the public body concerned; plans can change. Amounts that were not disclosed are recorded as not disclosed, never estimated.

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