Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
We are a development-type company with advantages in reliability and coordination. We are a specialist company in precision metal materials for the twenty-first century. We develop excellent materials applicable to micro electronic parts and ultra-high-precision machines and provide reliable products and services to our customers. Our company has been satisfying various customer requests for materials since our establishment, and we will further improve this power to support customer needs. We also have the strength to make proposals by foreseeing market trends rather than making passive responses.

[Business description]
We are a manufacturer of rerolled products established in 1940. Our precision metal materials business has two main areas: cold rolling and composite materials. We have customers in various fields including electronic parts, automotive parts, precision machines, fiber machines, and edged products. In our cold rolling business we manufacture high-quality special steels, stainless steel, and high-alloy steel. Sheet thicknesses range from 0.01 mm to 2 mm, and product thicknesses from 3 to 300 mm. In our composite materials business we select materials and specifications according to customer requests, propose and manufacture clad metals, coated sheet steel and other functional materials, and provide post-delivery support. We are a development-type company devoted to customer satisfaction.

[Industry]
Precision metal materials business; commercial facilities leasing business; warm bath business

[Strength of products/technologies]
Our cold rolling business has many advantages.
(1) We strictly manage sheet thickness tolerances.
(2) We support small-lot production and quick turnarounds, unlike other manufacturers of iron and steel rolled products.
(3) We are capable of controlling the structure of metal materials.
We make use of these production technologies to manufacture rolled products from difficult-to-process materials. These include special steels, special stainless steel, electro-resistive materials, and Hastelloy and Inconel, which are alloys with high corrosion resistance and heat resistance. Our composite product division manufactures multifunctional materials from individual materials by laminating different kinds of metals or metals and resins according to customer requests.


[Representative's message]
We start up projects for the strategic products we focus on, in which the manufacturing, sales, and technical divisions work together to secure customers by proposing value. We are acquiring new customers through conventional channels, and we are also promoting Web-based marketing. We are transmitting information to the global market from our own English website and through Alibaba. We are also energetically extending our sales channels by visiting overseas customers from Japan, and through overseas sites in Shanghai, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
Our Web marketing group accepts new inquiries via our website. Staff from our domestic sales department and market development team visit customers for meetings in the case of on-site meetings or regular purchase orders. Staff from our technical department may accompany them for specialized technical consultations. We have a global production, supply, and sales system for overseas companies, which links our overseas subsidiaries with the global sales group at the center. We can support customers in English, Chinese, and Korean.

[Market share/Ranking]
We have a share of about 70% of the domestic Japanese latch needle industry, and a share of about 80% for clad metals for resistors.

[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]

[Media]
Japan Metal Daily, "Rolling Machine for Testing" (August 2, 2013); and Special Steel, Vol. 62, No. 5 (September 2013).


[Authorization/Certification]
ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification.
Strategic Core Technology Advancement Program approval.



[Joint research and development]
Japanese Patent Registration: Rolled Metal Strip Manufacturing Method and Metal Strip Material Manufacturing Method Using Rolled Metal Strips (Japanese Unexamined Patent Application No. 2013-151029); and five others.

[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
KOA (resistance materials), Citizen (metal materials for gears and battery springs), Mabuchi Motor (motor commutators), TDK (inductor frames), Feather, Kai (razors), and many other electronics, machinery and press manufacturers.

[Main Clients / Business History (overseas)]
Stanley (tape measures), Treet (razors), Czech Blade (razors), Dongguan Mabuchi (motor parts), Mitsui Precision (FPC), and so on.