NPC Incorporated CEO Yoshiro Chikaki Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Japan® 2007 Award Winner

NPC Incorporated (TOKYO:6255), a leading equipment supplier for photovoltaic module production, announced that Yoshiroh Chikaki, President, received the Entrepreneur Of The Year® JAPAN 2007 Award. This award program honors outstanding entrepreneurs who have shown excellence in young business and management. Mr. Chikaki has been qualified to participate in the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award 2008 gala event to be held in next May in Monaco as the finalist in Japan.

“Everyday we are traveling around the world to our customers, conducting marketing and customer supports of our machines,” said Mr. Chikaki. “In order to protect the worldwide environment, we are fighting to develop and deliver useful and efficient machines for photovoltaic module production, though we are still a small company, influencing little. I’m very pleased to have received this award if this program evaluated our stance of technology, service, and toward the worldwide environment.”

About the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards

The Entrepreneur of the Year® awards program was created and is produced by professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP. As the first award of its kind, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. The program, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006, honors entrepreneurs through regional, national and global award programs in over 125 cities and 40 countries.

About NPC Incorporated

NPC Group’s vacuum technologies have been employed in various fields, ranging from vacuum food packaging to photovoltaic module manufacturing. We are engaged in two operations. They are the vacuum packaging machine business, which corresponds to demands related to food and industrial or electronic components; the photovoltaic manufacturing equipment business related to the downstream-process (module process). Both of these are supported by vacuum technologies, our core technologies that we have been accumulating since our foundation. The vacuum technologies are technologies with new possibilities and wide spheres of application.

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NPC Incorporated
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