Teikoku Piston Ring Co., Ltd., will adopt a new popular name, "TPR", as of October 1, 2004, as a first step in corporate innovation to become a flexible, and agile corporate group that can prevail in the world's markets. Taking advantage of this new popular name, we intend to meet your expectations through concerted companywide efforts toward a vision of realizing a clean and high-quality society.

Origin of "TPR"
We have chosen this popular name not only because it combines the three initial letters of Teikoku Piston Ring but also because it represents the three keywords of Technology, Passion, and Reliance, which we promote in our corporate philosophy, management policy and action guidelines. The name embodies our resolve to accept the "challenge of creating valuable products with excellent technology and maintaining an unfailing passion to meet the reliance of customers worldwide."
In developing the logo for this popular name, we adopted a powerful design to express universal corporate elements such as stability and reliance, as well as social responsibility. The use of the color red for three initials represents our unfailing passion. The outline of the letters "P" and "R" is emphasized to represent security and stability, and we added the image of core piston ring products from the time of the Company's founding.
The table below shows how and when to use the official company name (trade name) and the popular name.
You may continue using the TP brand mark (trademark).
The abbreviated stock name will be changed from "TEI-PISTON" or "TEIPIS" to "TPR" as of October 1, 2004.

In cases where the company name is officially indicated, such as for contractual documents and notifications of permits and licenses The official company name (trade name) shall be used. In cases where the company name is indicated for general purposes other than as noted above The popular name "TPR" shall be used. In cases where the brand mark (trademark) is indicated on our products, package and so on The trademark (TP brand mark) shall be used.

For questions about a popular name, please feel free to contact us.
TEL 03-5293-2814 (CORPORATE PLANNING DEPT.) or this form.