Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
Our company was founded as a manufacturer of fire bricks and crucibles for insulators. Our products then shifted to irregularly shaped fireproof articles and specialized fire bricks for electric furnaces for industrial use. Today, in the twenty-first century, we have evolved into a company that develops and manufactures various heaters for electric furnaces by making use of ceramic materials. We conduct examinations from the material and composition to satisfy customer requests. This is based on the expertise and technology on material properties for manufacturing ceramics which we have cultivated through many years of experience. We arrange and design heater materials with more excellent heat uniformity by making full use of our expertise in our wide range of heater applications. Our products are now used in a wide range of industries including state-of-the-art fields such as automobiles, semiconductors, and new ceramics.

[Business description]
Our goal is to become an R&D-type enterprise handling thermal treatment technology. We conduct consignment development and design according to customer specifications and applications. We also manufacture and sell our main products: (1) electric heater products for industrial use, and (2) fireproof products (such as fire bricks and insulators). Our industrial electric heater products cover various temperature ranges: low and medium (to 1000 °C), medium and high (1000 to 1280 °C), and low, medium and high (to 1280 °C). We also have models for low- and medium-temperature clean heaters and so on. Our fireproof product lineup includes high-purity fireproof articles, luxury fireproof articles, general fireproof articles, special fireproof articles, insulators for electric furnaces, and so on.

[Industry]
Manufacturing 

[Strength of products/technologies]
We are highly evaluated by many customers for our wealth of experience and knowledge regarding material properties for ceramics. We manufacture fire bricks and insulators using our original compounds. We can supply products including (1) materials with excellent electric insulation properties under high temperatures, and (2) materials that can be used at temperatures higher than 1500 °C. We also offer (3) special atmosphere, high-purity alumina for use in high vacuums and high-purity mullite fireproof articles. We have advantages in planar-shaped heating elements in the field of industrial motors. We will propose a structure with excellent heat uniformity and responsiveness by assembling our newly-developed platinum reflector.



[Representative's message]
We have been taking on the challenge of fire, which is the source of creation, since our foundation. We have pursued how we can utilize fire and heat for society. We always take in customer needs in advance as required by the times. Our goal is to be an enterprise with a spirit of taking on challenges for innovative technology and expertise in professional technology, rather than company size. This is how we have contributed to the business of major companies in various industries. We are a small company, but we have received the trust of our customers, and provided products that have made certain contributions to the development of society. We hope to further refine the experience and technology we have cultivated to date. We aim to establish a heater unit with further originality in the heat treatment field, and to advance our manufacturing of reliable, genuinely convenient products for customers.

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
We have increased the number of salespersons working on market cultivation from three to five in the past four years. We are making use of marketing plans and SWOT analysis to analyze our advantages and weak points compared with our competitors. Our goal is to carry out new customer and new product development, and cultivate dormant customers. We constantly follow up on these activities in weekly business meetings. We have relaunched our website, and plan to publish a new catalog in the fall and actively participate in exhibitions.



[Market share/Ranking]
We have taken 10th place in the industry (among 20 companies).

[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]

[Media]
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, “Dealing with 800 °C by Using Platinum Film” (August 4, 2009, p. 26); Osaka-jin, “Hakkotsu the OSAKA” (August 2005, pp. 72 to 74).



[Authorization/Certification]
ISO 9001 quality management system; ISO 14001 environmental management system.

[Joint research and development]
We have filed 39 patent applications, among which we have acquired registration for 27 patents.

[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
Glass manufacturer X, semiconductor equipment manufacturer Y, Toshiba Semiconductor, Honda Motor, Toyota Motor, Fuji Heavy Industries, Nichia Corporation, Toray Industries, and Kaneka Corporation. 

[Main Clients / Business History (overseas)]
TSMC, Intel, Micron, and Sundisk.