Ricoh Electronics, Inc. is Ricoh's U.S. manufacturing subsidiary based in Tustin, California. REI began manufacturing products in 1973, making Ricoh the first Japanese company to manufacture office equipment and consumables in the United States. The company produces highly-advanced digital copiers, peripherals, printed circuit boards, thermal media, toner, parts, recycled toner cartridges, and customer configured products at its facilities in Orange County, California, and Lawrenceville, Georgia