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[Company strength]
Our company has younger crafters who understand state-of-the-art technologies for surface treatment, coating, and painting and our experienced and master artisans have traditional skills that should be handed down to the next generation in the field of special surface treatment. Our people are trying to further enhance their capabilities as multi-skilled artisans who can carry out a range of metal surface treatment, coating, and painting. Though we are not a big company, we have a Sales Department and have been actively participating in business shows and exhibitions, and visiting and delivering brochures to existing and potential customers. We believe that such efforts have led to a new customer base and reinforced our enterprise power.

[Business description]
Our company is involved with coating architectural hardware, elevators, railroad cars, machine tools and medical equipment which require metal coating and high quality surface processing and design excellence.
- Ordinary coating/painting: melamine resin, acrylate resin, polyurethane resin, silicon resin, fluorine resin, powder resin, and others
- Special coating/painting: sulfide fumigation finish, patina finish, red rust imitation coating, coating emulating black oxide finish, piano-black painting 
- Special surface processing: sulfide fumigation and patina finishes for copper alloys. We meet coating needs for aesthetically designed architectural hardware by using color clear finish, black oxide finish, and wiping painting for stainless steel and other metal materials.


[Industry]
Metal product coating/painting and other metal surface treatment

[Strength of products/technologies]
We manually carry out special surface treatments such as sulfide fumigation finish and patina finish to emulate the verdigris on aged copper. The work can be done on-site and is quick enough to be acceptable for industrial products. We also offer “surface finish resembling piano’s painting” and is a manual mirror-like polishing of paint on metals such as steel and stainless steel. These products are used as architectural hardware including interior and exterior panels of global brands’ and high class commercial buildings. The above technologies mentioned above are our proprietary assets. 

[Representative's message]
In October 2015, we built a plant in Chiba Prefecture to aid with skill transfer and market development. We have improved our web site, actively participated in business shows, used the mass media (TV and newspapers), and employed sales personnel in an effort to increase business. We will furthermore make efforts to grade up our corporate strength. We are planning to newly establish a “Planning and Development Section" in three years to make patent applications, develop new services and skills following the participations in business shows, and create campaign projects. We will explore new markets in the Kansai, Chubu, and Kanto regions. We will invest substantial resources into the employment, training and education of young workers.

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
We have established a Sales Department in our Chiba Plant and deployed a sales representative in the local office. We will raise our profile in the Kanto region by expanding sales channels and actively participating in business shows and exhibitions held at Tokyo Big Site and other convention and exhibition venues. Two sales representatives belonging to the Sales Department of our Osaka Plant cover the Kansai and Chubu regions. In order to enhance the sales capabilities, our sales database has been improved, daily reports on new business building activities and visits to existing customers have been put into use, and supporting actions through sample catalogs, brochures, and other promotion materials and TV commercials have been launched.  



[Market share/Ranking]
We are ranked in the top 3 of the dry sulfide fumigation coating market, No.1 in the sulfurized color finish market, and in the top 5 of the clear rubbed finish and color clear finish of stainless steel markets. 

[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]
January 2016: Won the “MONODZUKURI” New Selection in KANSAI 2016 Award
February 2016: Won the 2015 Osaka Monozukuri Award (Artisan)

[Media]
Reported by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun in its article “Machi-kojo no waza” on April 5, 2016.
Reported by “E!Kansai”, a PR magazine of Kinki Bureau of Economy, in its article “Recommendation for Investment Promotion Tax on Productivity Increasing Facilities” on March 1, 2016.



[Authorization/Certification]
Osaka Governor (General-19) No. 78777

[Intellectual property]
None (We have plans to apply two new industrial designs for registration during fiscal 2016.)



[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
Inazawa Works, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Indirect transaction): Coating of elevator doorsHead Office, Fujitec Co., Ltd. at Toyooka, Hyogo (Direct transaction): Coating of elevator doors and escalator panels.Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. (Direct transaction): Coating of railroad car doors and panelsKonan Plant, Nabtesco Corporation (Direct transaction): Coating of platform doors

[Exhibition History/Information]
We plan to participate in “Tokyo International Industry Exhibition 2016” to be held at Tokyo Big Site from October 31 through November 2, 2016.
We will take part in “Osaka Monozukuri Business Fair” to be held at “MyDome Osaka” on November 22, 2016.