Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
Our company is one of the few comprehensive vacuum product manufacturers in the Kansai region. We have been developing and manufacturing vacuum surface treatment devices, precision vacuum heat-treatment devices, and vacuum pumps for more than 60 years. We supply projectors for machine tools to enable submicron-order processing accuracy in the precision projector field. We have recently advanced to developing and manufacturing vacuum equipment for medical equipment use. We also focus on manufacturing and developing environmentally friendly dry pumps and deposition devices with high lubrication performance and abrasion resistance for low fuel consumption by vehicles.

[Business description]
Our company manufactures and sells vacuum pumps, various vacuum devices, and special precision projectors. We manufacture customized vacuum machines for functional films for electronic parts, hard films with high abrasion resistance, and devices for medical equipment. We contribute to production activities in each industrial field. Vacuum pumps are used as environmentally friendly dry pumps and other kinds of pumps in a wide range of industrial fields. 
We are a comprehensive vacuum technology company that is continuing development activities to stabilize and innovate the world of industry and society.


[Industry]
Vacuum equipment, vacuum pump, and special optical equipment manufacturing and sales

[Strength of products/technologies]
Improving the friction resistance, abrasion resistance, and lubrication performance of automotive sliding parts directly contributes to improving fuel consumption efficiency and reducing environmental loads. Our Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) deposition devices make extremely small attacks on counterpart materials (4/1,000) in comparison to conventional products. These devices have been contributing to this field for many years. Vehicles require many power devices that use large currents because of the advance of electronic control. Our company’s precision vacuum heat-treatment technology and vacuum soldering devices have realized void-free soldering. We have a market share greater than half of the domestic Japanese market.

[Representative's message]
We have been globally transmitting cutting-edge technologies from Kobe, which is an environmentally advanced area, as well as expanding our business to overseas markets and globalizing our industry. We are building up an agency network for sales and repairs in various countries and providing service to users in a unified manner. We will take on the new challenge of business expansion closer to markets and customers in the world market, and particularly in Asia, which has been experiencing remarkable growth.

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
We have two manufacturing sites in the Kansai Region and branch offices in Tokyo and Kobe as sales sites. We also have a Tokyo service center to provide after-sales service to customers in East Japan. We directly visit overseas customers for sales promotion outside Japan, and have agencies and after-sales service partners in several countries. We are now preparing an in-house system for full-scale overseas expansion.

[Market share/Ranking]
Domestic Japanese market share for vacuum soldering devices in the power device joining field: More than 80%.
Market share for vacuum pumps in the mechanical low vacuum field: More than 20%.


[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]
The Second Monozukuri (Manufacturing) Nippon Grand Award, Excellence Prize (2007).

[Media]
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd., "111 Excellent Monozukuri (Manufacturing) Companies in Kansai."


[Authorization/Certification]
ISO 14001 and ISO 9001.

[Joint research and development]
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Chubu University, Nagoya Institute of Technology: Development of Innovative Carbon Nanotube Composite Materials for a Low Carbon Emission Society, Project for Basic R&D of Graphene, R&D of Single Crystal Graphenes by Camphor (2012–2013).
Shiga Prefecture Industrial Support Center, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga University of Medical Science, etc.: Medical-Industrial Partnership Business Promotion Project (2013–2015).