Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
Our company has a consistent production system, ranging from in-house mold manufacturing, pressing, subsequent processes like barreling, electrolysis and chemical polishing to annealing treatment, cleansing by deionized water of nano-level and advanced quality assurance to manage CPK values. We have highly potential power to develop technology that makes the impossible possible by blending expertise nurtured through our long history in developing technology for precision dies and molds and in plastic forming.  Our corporate culture has bred originality and pioneering spirits that always satisfy our customers' needs for technology.  The ultraprecision fields of nano level require human sensitivity that defies machines, and our company has such climate as to make 'people' and their 'minds' to keep on bearing superior technological fruits.

[Business description]
Manufacture and sale of precision press dies and press parts. Our company has engaged in ultraprecision fields for half a century since its founding, originally starting with molds manufacturing. We excel in mass production technology in progressive pressing for products such as electronic parts of high precision and micron accuracy, automotive parts requiring high-accuracy cold forging technology, ceramic sheet made by precision blanking, etc. That makes us contribute to both domestic and overseas companies in their supplying world’s ranking products. We have focused on honeycomb molds for purifying automotive emission in recent years as demand for environmental control increases worldwide.

[Industry]
Molding and metal processing

[Strength of products/technologies]
HDD (hard disc) demands read/write intervals of 10 nano level, and our base plate products for HDD retain such a high level of accuracy for the crucial function component that only 4 manufacturers in the world can deliver.   We are also capable of meeting requirements all round on the basis of our fundamental technology for coalescence of complicated 3D shapes, switch over in the process method to pressing only without cutting process, precision cold forging that requires flatness and verticality of micron accuracy, deep drawing technology, etc.

[Representative's message]
Our company has specialized in manufacturing from ultraprecision molds to ultrafine highly complicated molds for 45 years since our founding.  We are replete with advanced facilities, our bipolar manufacturing sites in Okinawa and at our headquarters cope with quick delivery requirements anticipated due to expected increase in demand for honeycomb catalyst molds. Thus, we are prepared to respond faithfully to our users' needs for more highly precise components in the world and expand our mass production capacity of ultraprecision components at the same time.

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
Our Development Center for Die and Mold Advanced Technology is a window to our customers’ requirements for development, where electron microscopes and universal testing machines are equipped. We have well established verification techniques approximated to actual manufacturing processes by CAE analysis. We also have approaches in place to jointly improve production technology as for mass-produced items.   We carry through our responsible stance on molds sales that is constant since our founding days to see to it that production at our customers, as well as in-house trials of our own products and quality assurance activities, is conducted.  We have professional staffs well positioned to expand our operations globally in dealing with many companies overseas. 

[Market share/Ranking]
Base plate for HDD (hard disc) suspension: 35% overseas, 70% in Japan.

[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards] Selected for "Manufacturing Brand Nagoya" (2004), "300 of Japan's Vibrant Monozukuri (Manufacturing) SMEs" (2008). 
[Media] BBC Shiga Economy Now (telecast on November 23, 2013), GBS Business Feature (telecast on May 22, 2010), Korean MBN Global Champion (telecast on November 18, 2010), Nihon Keizai Shimbun (September 7 issue, 2009), Nikkan Kogyou Shimbun (January 19, 20, 21 and 22 issues in a series, 2010), Asahi Shimbun (May 26 issue, 2010) and other regional papers.

[Authorization/Certification]
ISO9001, ISO14001, Strategic Core Technology Advancement Program

[Joint research and development]
Gifu University (inner wall surface of cup is deep-drawn smooth by spreading process) (deformation behavior when drilling holes in ceramics green sheet) and many other joint research and development projects with major companies.

[Factory (domestic)]
Okinawa Plant, Nagasaki Plant, Honeycomb Mold Plant for Catalyst Carriers, Annealing Plant

[Other sites]
Head Office/FPS Plant, Wanouchi Plant, 2nd Wanouchi Plant (precision cold forging), Development Center for Die and Mold Advanced Technology.

[Transaction form]
Orders for dies and mass-produced pressing products, trial manufacturing and joint research & development.

[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Denso Corporation, Panasonic and others. About 150 domestic and overseas companies for mass-produced products and made-to-order molds.

[Main Clients / Business History (overseas)]
Besides Samsung, other companies in Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Southeast Asia and North America. Mass-produced products and made-to-orders for molds from Iran.

[Exhibition History/Information]
Inter Mold 2013, M-Tech 2013, Inter Mold Korea 2013, Metalex Thailand 2013, Inter Mold 2014 (planned), Chubu District Manufacturing Technology Expo 2014 (planned)