Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
Our company’s strength is that we conduct all the processes of product development, manufacturing and sales. Our development department makes use of our patented unique technologies and develops the exact type of products that capture the demands of the niche slurry liquid conveyance segment. Our sales department conducts sales activities through sales agents and responds to an increasing number of inquiries from our company website. It cultivates markets in China and Southeast Asia as well as Japan. This is done by working with major users in the automobile, steel, IT chemical, papermaking, and environmental plant manufacturing industries. 

[Business description]
Our company develops, manufactures, and sells industrial pumps specialized in the conveyance of slurry liquid. Our pumps are widely used in many facilities. These include various domestic and overseas factories for manufacturing and wastewater treatment processes, household and industrial waste treatment plants, and agricultural drainage facilities. Our products are also used in seawater conveyance facilities operated by the Japan Association of Rural Solutions for Environmental Conservation and Resource Recycling (JARUS). 

[Industry]
Industrial pump manufacturing 

[Strength of products/technologies]
Our products resolve issues of wear, clogging, and corrosion inside pumps that are caused by the solid molecules in slurry liquid. They have become popular among many major companies.
(1) Our original un-injected double mechanical seal prevents leakage from the pump. Our pumps come in a variety of materials such as cast iron and high chrome stainless steel.
(2) Our pumps excel in wear and corrosion resistance because of the rubber lining on the parts that are in contact with liquid.
3) Special twin blade impellers prevent clogging with foreign materials.
4) We aim for higher efficiency with the use of non-self-priming rubber linings. 
All four types of pumps have these features. They can be serviced with the plumbing attached, which realizes cost reduction.


[Representative's message]
Our company started to develop civil engineering pumps in 1956, and then moved on to agricultural pumps and overseas support pumps (ODA). We are now a niche pump manufacturer specialized in environmental pumps. It takes significant effort for SMEs to manage all operations such as development, prototype manufacturing, sales, and servicing. However, we hope to contribute to society even in our own small scale in a field of environmental pumps that no other company specializes in. 

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
Our sales representatives make proposals to satisfy the customer’s needs in our dealings with major companies. This is done by utilizing our expertise and experience, and by working with the manufacturing department to provide high-quality products in a speedy manner. 
We closely work with our sales agents’ overseas offices for overseas expansion. We also visit overseas users and potential customers. We have concluded a sole agency contract with a Taiwanese trading company in an effort to start full-scale sales activities in Taiwan starting from this year. We started OEM production this spring for a pump manufacturing plant that our agent established in Thailand. We will rearrange our organizational structure to prepare for future overseas production.


[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]
300 of Japan's Vibrant Monozukuri (Manufacturing) SMEs selection, Shining Monozukuri Craftsmanship SME selection (2009); selected for coverage in a report prepared by the Organization for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Regional Innovation (2010).

[Media]
The Nikkei, “Mitsuwa Pump Cultivates Wastewater Treatment Market in Southeast Asia” (April 3, 2013). 


[Authorization/Certification]
Acquired ISO 9001 certification; New Partnerships Program approval by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); Services for Promising Export Projects approval by JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization). 

[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
More than 100 units of our products are used in the wastewater treatment facilities of Ibiden’s IT circuit board plants. Our products have been shipped to 250 municipalities in Japan since they became JARUS-designated sledge removal pumps. 

[Main Clients / Business History (overseas)]
We have shipped many units to Bridgestone plants in China, Thailand, and Indonesia, as well as Sumitomo Rubber Industries plants in China and Thailand for mold release agent conveyance. We also supply silicone material conveying pumps to Showa Denko plants in Vietnam. 

[Exhibition History/Information]
Plant Show 2013; Singapore International Water Week Water Expo 2011 (2011); InterAqua 2014 (planned).