Tokyo, Japan - Toppan Forms Co., Ltd., and Stollmann E+V GmbH have announced a business collaboration in product development and joint marketing of NFC (Near Field Communication) related software products.

This collaboration entitles Toppan Forms to be a sales agent of the NFCStack+ of Stollmann, in Japan. Toppan Forms, based on this collaboration, envisions spreading the world standard NFC technology in the global market especially in mobile phone applications.

Stollmann will supply the NFCStack+ to Toppan Forms who will provide the technical services such as customization, porting to the platform or other technical support to Japanese customers. Toppan Forms expects that this is a significant push forward for international interoperability of Japanese NFC solutions.

The NFCStack+ is a total NFC Protocol Stack solution offering features required for NFC Forum compliant devices such as mobile phone, PC or other electronic equipment. When used with Toppan Forms modules it enables communication with all NFC Forum and ISO NFC standards, including the pervasive FeliCa standard in Japan and the NXP’s MIFARE standards.

With this new product being a part of their NFC product line up, Toppan Forms gains the capability of providing the hardware, software, middleware, system design and servicing, and it will lead Toppan Forms to be a total solution provider of NFC technologies in the Japanese market.

Toppan Forms will be demonstrating the NFCStack+ at Wireless Japan held at Tokyo Big Site from the 22^nd to the 24^th of July, 2009. Visit the booth at C-070 in East 4/5 Hall to experience the NFC products from Toppan Forms and Stollmann.

About Toppan Forms:

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd is a leading company of Information Media Technologies such as Contactless Smart Card and RFID in Japan where the technologies and services are already widely adopted. With the advent of the ubiquitous information society under way, Toppan Forms has strategically positioned NFC as the next generation core technology encompassing hardware, software, and services that will be developed and provided for cellular phones and other electronic devices for the global market.

Contact us at:

Public Relations, Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.
1-7-3 Higashi Shimbashi, Minato-Ku,
Tokyo 105-8311, Japan
Phone: 03-6253-5730
Fax: 03-6253-5629
URL: http://www.toppan-f.co.jp

* "Mifare" is Registered Trademark of NXP Semiconductor
* "Felica" is Registered Trademark of SONY Cooperation
* Company names or product names in this document might be a Trademark or Registered Trademark of each company.