According to the interface, the recent announcement by yoshinaga (china) office equipment limited (kagainsan plant) that it had ceased production had marked the official opening of the manufacturing base, which had produced millions of laser printers over the years。
Source: interface news
Previously, media reported that the energy printer plant in central guangdong had been shut down on 21 november and that staff were on temporary leave until 28 november, and that the plant was settling follow-up with employees and suppliers。
According to the daily economic news, on 24 november, the company's decision to close down was due to dramatic changes in the market environment, the continued contraction of the lbp (laser printer) market and the rapid rise of the lbp brand in china. The operation of the kanayama plant continues to be difficult and, despite attempts at adjustment, the situation cannot be reversed。
According to publicly available information, yoshinaga nakayama is one of the leading laser printer production companies of yoshinaga, japan, which started production in june 2001 in the zhongshan torch development area. It was used as a base for the production of multiple types of laser printers in china。
At the peak of production in the factory, the number of employees reached tens of thousands between 2009 and 2010 and the treatment of “3 dollar-saturated canteens, air-conditioning-free dormitories” attracted a large number of job-seekers to line up for the job, considered as “iron jobs” in the eyes of the pearl triangle workers. By april 2022, the company had produced a total of 110 million laser printers, with a total industrial output of nearly $3. 2 billion in that year。
However, the number of employees declined sharply from 3,372 to 1656 between 2022 and 2024, leaving only about 1,400 as of september 2025。
According to idc, the share of jiacan laser printers in china was 7. 7 per cent in 2018, down to 3. 9 per cent in the third quarter of 2025, and the share of national production cards had risen to 41. 5 per cent. In the first half of 2025, china's a4 laser printing equipment delivered 3. 177 million units, a decrease of 5 per cent over the same period; and a3 laser printing equipment delivered 272,000 units, a decrease of 10 per cent over the same period, with the overall industry in a marked decline。
The director of the yoshinaga plant disclosed to the media that a certain percentage of the plant's products had been sold in the country a few years earlier, but that 100 per cent of its products were now exported to other countries. The plant was shut down, except for the diversion of some orders to south-east asian plants in viet nam, thailand and elsewhere due to increased competitive pressure in the laser printer market, while the strategic focus of yoshinaga in recent years has shifted to higher-profit operations such as medical imagery and semiconductor equipment。
According to the information received, as at 30 november, a number of employees of the plant had received compensation, but the specific compensation programme was confidential and the plant and the chinese headquarters in yoshinaga had not yet publicly released information on the situation。
As early as 2022, the 32-year-old guangdong sea also declared an end to corporate production, producing small digital cameras that used to account for half of the global sales of these small digital cameras, one of the most important overseas production bases. With the rapid growth of smartphones, the global digital camera market has declined, with only 8 million digital cameras delivered globally in 2020, a figure that is far lower than that of mobile phone manufacturers like samsung, apple and hua。
According to the morning post: according to opposite, a journalist's query, gaun (chongshan) office equipment ltd. Was established in june 2001 with a legal representative of maru yamamoto, with a registered capital of $5. 8 million, covering the production and operation of laser printers, fax machines, multifunctional machines (including fax, photocopying, scanning, printing) and related semi-finished products, parts, etc. Shareholder information indicates that the company is fully owned by the japan cannon society. According to the annual report, the number of participants in the company fell from 2021 to 2056 in 2024。
