Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
Our melting furnace is a pure oxygen burner rotary furnace, which is now the mainstream type in Europe. This melting furnace is the fifth unit of its kind in Japan and the first in the Kanto region, where it remains the only such unit in service. We excel at casting and accept orders for high-mix low-volume production of articles (even single pieces) with weights from 1 kg to 7 tons. Our partner factory even manufactures cast products weighing about 30 tons each.

[Business description]
We mainly manufacture castings and cast articles by machining and wooden mold production. Our casting department manufactures cast articles for machine tools, industrial machines, pneumatic and hydraulic pumps, and marine internal combustion engines. This department also manufactures products made of ductile cast iron, high-strength cast iron, plain cast iron, heat-resistant and wear-resistant cast iron, and nonferrous metal castings. Our machine department provides cast products completed by machining. We manufacture wooden mold parts, wooden molds, FM molds, resin molds, aluminum molds, and dies.

[Industry]
Casting and cast article manufacturing

[Strength of products/technologies]
We excel at manufacturing products with complicated shapes containing many cores. Materials include plain cast iron (FC200-350), spherical graphite cast iron (FCD400-600), and aluminum light alloy (AC). We manufacture polystyrene foam or plywood models of small-lot cast products for trial manufacturing and product cost reduction. Our independently developed BSL seismic isolator has achieved high performance and low pricing as a sliding-type pile head joining device, and it has been selected as a Kawaguchi i-mono Brand. It is the only seismic isolator with a rotation mechanism that can absorb the tilt of a building foundation as a sliding-type pile head joining device.

[Representative's message]
Our company has been manufacturing various pig iron cast products here in Kawaguchi since our company’s foundation in 1937. "Top priority to customer satisfaction" is our motto. All of our staff engage in manufacturing while prioritizing high quality and quick turnaround to ensure safe and secure long-term transactions. We make use of our past experience to meet user requests for any kinds of shapes, dimensions, and materials in various industrial categories and fields. We will further brush ourselves up as a foundry company so as to stably manufacture high-quality products to gain great reliance from manufacturers.

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
President Junichi Irino is in charge of sales channel development. We have provided overseas guidance regarding casting technologies to the local companies of our Japanese corporate customers in Vietnam and Malaysia. We have been providing the Government of Myanmar with technical support for Monozukuri craftsmanship since last year at the request of JICA (three visits and 36 visitors in total).

[Market share/Ranking]
Seismic isolators: We have a 3% share of the domestic Japanese market (cast seismic isolators are available from our company only).

[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]
Sai-no-Kuni Factory designation by Saitama Prefecture; Vibrant Companies in Kawaguchi selection by Kawaguchi Trade Center; Saitama Prefecture Contest of Casting Technology, Saitama Governor's Prize.

[Media]
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (2012) and Monozukuri Industries in Kawaguchi.
Our gas burner type rotary furnace and seismic isolator have been introduced many times in the media.


[Authorization/Certification]
Ball-point slider (accredited by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism). 

[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
Ebara Corporation, Hitachi Limited, DMW Corporation, Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd., Akasaka Diesels Limited, Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co., Ltd., and Toyota Tsusho Corporation.

[Main Clients / Business History (overseas)]
Many pump products to overseas companies through domestic companies (overseas company names confidential).