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President Imura's comment on October 11, 2007, in the regular column "Yuhodo" of the Tekko Shimbun or "Japan Metal Daily"
President Imura: "It seems that our company is well known for bearings, hydraulic machines and robots business. But, I want people know more about our materials business. In recent years, materials such as steel and other nonferrous metals have drawn a lot of attention. The automobile, electric and other industries cannot do any business without materials. Nachi-Fujikoshi will explore and develop applications for "FM ALLOY," the high-performance superalloy that we have recently launched. It will be developed as the core of our materials business."
Reported on October 10, 2007 in the Nikkei Hokuriku Shimbun, Nikkei Business Daily, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Kita-Nippon Shimbun, Toyama Shimbun and other news media outlets
New high-performance superalloy has been developed.
Nachi-Fujikoshi has launched a newly developed material, "FM ALLOY," that has improved heat-resistance and strength. They will explore its market potential in automobile and aircraft components as well as electronic and precision equipments. The newly-built plant equipped with a special melting furnace on the Higashi Toyama Plant premises lays out the foundation for mass production system. The company's material business aims for 27 billion yen in sales, or to increase by 80% on the current sales by 2010.
Reported on October 9, 2007 in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
Interview with Mr. Imura, the Chairperson of the Japan Robot Association
"We saw an increase in the shipment of industrial robots in the 2005 to 2006 fiscal year and we are expecting to see a 2% to 5% year on year increase in the 2007 to 2008 term. It is not an unrealistic dream for the industrial robot sector to achieve the one trillion yen market by 2010. The demand for robots that can reduce the need for manpower is quite large. What we need is to be flexible enough to satisfy all kinds of demands. We must be able to create new customers among the construction and industrial machinery and component makers, as well as in the automobile, electric and electronics industries."
Reported on October 6, 2007 in the Nikkei Tohoku Shimbun, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun and other news media outlets
Expansion of plant
In Nachi Tohoku Seiko in Yamagata City, a 5,320 square-meter annex was built to meet the increased demands for hydraulic equipment (rotary center joints) for small-size construction machines. The monthly productivity will increase to 420 units from 320 units due to a newly built integrated production line. The company plans to make more capital investment to reach a monthly production of 5,000 units by 2008. The Yamagata Business Office will be opened on the plant premises to strengthen the sales structure in the Tohoku region. Nachi-Fujikoshi is considering to build an engineering center in the region that will be engaged in robot maintenance work, re-grinding of tools and other relevant services.
Reported on October 5, 2007 in the Nikkei Shimbun, Kita-Nippon Shimbun and other news media outlets
The third quarterly result: The consolidated sales is 14.4 billion yen, 1.9% rise on the same period last year. The ordinary profit is 11.3billion yen, 6.9% rise on the same period last year, and the net profit marked the record high.
Reported on September 18, 2007 in Koyusho, a regular column in the Nikkei Shimbun
President Imura: Relationship with a journalist led by the Christian spirit that has long survived in Nagasaki.
Reported on September16, 2007 in the Kita-Nippon Shimbun
"New Year GALA Concert 2008," on Jan. 6, 2008 at Aubade Hall in Toyama City: Special co-sponsor is Nachi-Fujikoshi.
Reported on September 12, 2007 in the Nikkei Hokuriku Shimbun, Kita-Nippon Shimbun and other news media outlets, and on September 19, 2007 in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun and other news media outlets
Toyama Techno-Fair
"Toyama Techno-Fair" hosted by the Toyama Prefectural Machinery and Electronics Industries Association chaired by Mr. Kensuke Imura will be held at Toyama City Techno Hall for three days from September 27. A record number of 254 companies mainly in the engineering and metalworking industry, electric and electronics industry and their related companies will exhibit state-of-the-art products, machine tools and other products. During the fair, the Toyama Measuring Tool Exhibition and Robot Exhibition will be held at the same venue.
Reported on September 11, 2007 in the column "Lounge," of the Nikkei Hokuriku Shimbun
"Density of work and manpower allocation. These are the issues," commented President Imura when he was asked his thoughts on the local government's administrative reform that he was involved in from the spring of 2005.
Reported on September 7, 2007 in the Kita-Nippon Shimbun, Toyama Shimbun and other news media outlets
Toyama Employer's Association
The Association celebrated its 60th anniversary on September 6th, in the Meitetsu Hotel in Toyama City with 370 guests attending the celebration. Professor Isao Endo of Waseda University lectured under the theme of "Persistent Management and Job Site Power." Afterwards, Mr. Ryuichi Ishii, the Governor of Toyama Prefecture, and Mr. Imura, chairperson of the association, joined him for the panel discussion.
Reported in Nikkei Hokuriku Shimbun, September 4, 2007 and Nikkei Business Daily, September 6, 2007
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI plans to increase the use of the port at Fushiki-Toyama Bay (covering Takaoka City, Imizu City and Toyama City of Toyama Prefecture) that is closer to the company's core production bases, to around 20% from the current 3% to 4% in two or three years time. So far, most of the company's products have been shipped from Nagoya and Yokohama ports. But, due to the recent improvements in the maritime transportation network of Fushiki-Toyama Bay, the company's products will be shipped from the local. By using the local port, NACHI-FUJIKOSHI aims to improve the efficiency of its overseas distribution mainly for China, South Korea and Southeast Asia, so that it will be able to lower surface transportation costs and CO2 emissions.
A new product advertisement in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, September 3, 2007
Advertisement of AG-ESS Drill and AG-ES Drill
The next generation, new alloy high-speed drills have realized high speeds and feeding closer to that of carbide drills.
Reported in the Nikkei Hokuriku Shimbun, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Kitanippon Shimbun, Toyama Shimbun and other media outlets, August 29, 2007, and Nikkei Business Daily, September 6, 2007.
Personnel allocation and organizational revision as of September 1st The business contact counters of NACHI-FUJIKOSHI and Nachi-Tokiwa were unified. Nachi-Tokiwa is a trading firm, specializing in machinery, that was purchased by NACHI-FUJIKOSHI in June to become its subsidiary. As a result of higher efficiency in the domestic business operations, some personnel were shifted from the domestic to international business sector. This will strengthen overseas business operations while establishing a new business site in Yamagata to meet the expanded demand in the Tohoku area.
Reported in Nikkei News, August 28, 2007
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI built a new parts-processing plant for machine tools on their business site located in Nagaresugi, Toyama City. The land area for the new plant is 9,000 square meters. The new plant will begin operating in September with 70 employees and workers. With this new plant, the company aims to increase by 40% its key parts processing capability. The new plant will process major machine tool parts and components including drilling bases and spindles for grinding metal by rotating the tool. The company aims to increase in-house parts production to 80% from the current 50% to improve machine tool production efficiency.
Reported in the Nikkei Business Daily, August 20, 2007
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI strengthens its Japan support system for industrial robots by starting a 24/7 paid hot line service for customers requiring help with their robots. The company plans to increase the sales of robot-related support services in Japan to 8 billion yen in fiscal 2010, double that of fiscal 2006.
Reported in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, August 1 and Hokuriku Chunichi Shimbun, August 9, 2007
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI launched two high-speed steel drills, the "AG-ES Drill" and the "AG-ESS Drill." The addition of new coating material and the high-speed steel has made high-speed drilling as efficient as carbide drills with speeds1.4 times faster than conventional high-speed steel drills. NACHI-FUJIKOSHI aims to sell 500 million yen worth during fiscal 2008.
A new product advertisement in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, August 1, 2007
Launching the sales of 350 mm, thin-sheet coils.
Reported in the Nikkei News and other media outlets on March 29, 2007
2007 first quarter results: Consolidated net sales were 45.4 billion yen. The consolidated current profit was 3.3 billion yen, a 10% increase from the same period last year.
Reported in the Nikkei-Hokuriku, Nikkei Business Daily, Nikkann Kogyo Shimbun, Japan Metal News, Kitanippon Shimbun and other media outlets on January 31, 2007
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI in cooperation with the Tohoku University completed development of the manufacturing process of ultra-fine wire having the world highest ductility and hardness. It is now possible to produce ultra-fine wire having diameters between 0.05 and 0.5 mm. The wire will be commercialized as the "CDC Process Micron Hard" series to be applied over a wide range of areas including electronics and medical equipment.
Reported in the Nikkei News, Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Kitanippon Shimbun, the Toyama Shimbun and other media outlets on January 25, 2007
The consolidated settlement of accounts of NACHI-FUJIKOSHI by the end of November (for the fiscal period from December 2005 to November 2006) continued to increase for the past four quarters, resulting in record high sales profits.
Among various reasons that attributed to this increase, sales orders for automobile industries remained at high levels and industrial machinery business for construction and airplanes had also increased. The end-of-term dividend increased by one yen to eight yen.
Reported in the Nikkei News on December 23, 2006
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI increased production of hydraulic motors for small-size construction machinery by 60%. They introduced an efficient production system in a new plant constructed in their Namerikawa establishment. This production system uses 60 robots designed and produced in-house that can transfer parts. With the monthly production capacity of the plant set at 16,000 units, they are aiming to increase the sales of hydraulic machinery by 40% to 50 billion yen by 2010.
Reported in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun on December 21 2006, in the Toyama Shimbun on December 22, 2006 and in the Nikkei-Hokuriku on January 13, 2007
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI launched sales of "Altis SC400LC", the robot for transferring large-size glass substrate of flat panel displays (FPD). As a clean room robot, it has the world's largest weight loading capacity of 400 kg. The company is planning to double the sales of clean-room robot products to 500 units by 2008
Reported in the Nikkei News December 8, 2006
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI estimates that its consolidated business profits by the end of November 2007 will be 15 billion yen, a 6% increase from the previous term. Tools and high-performance components for industrial machinery are continuing to do well, leading to profits for the company. It will be the third consecutive year to reach record profits. NACHI-FUJIKOSHI continues to maintain high capital investments in the current term.
Reported in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun on November 29, 2006 and in the Toyama Shimbun on November 30, 2006
Nachi-Fujikosi began sales of the ultra-hard mechanical drill, "AQUA Drill Three Flutes with End-Cutting Teeth" for drilling cast holes in steel or aluminum plates. The three-flute balanced cutting controls vibration during drilling. Compared with reaming, the finish surface precision is greatly improved including hole diameter and roundness accuracy. Nine drills are available with different cutting teeth, ranging between 3 and 12 mm. NACHI-FUJIKOSHI aims for 100 million yen worth of sales during 2007 fiscal year.
Reported in the Nikkei News on November 21, 2006 and in the Toyama Shimbun on November 22, 2006
For the fiscal year ending November 2006, NACHI-FUJIKOSHI's dividend will be eight yen. This is the third consecutive year that the dividend has been increased for stockholders. As the company's business in high-performance automobile bearings and hydraulic machines for mini-shovels or compact excavators has been in good demand, the dividend was increased in proportion to the profit.
Reported in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun on November 16, 2006
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI strengthens precision machine tool business by expanding ultra-precision machinery products. They began marketing the finishing tool ASP01A for the aspheric surface market, dramatically shortening the processing time and the AMG62P, for liquid crystal light guide plates. As sales of new generation DVD players and other audiovisual products accelerated, the company has enjoyed increased orders from IT-related companies. Their sales target in the precision business is nine billion yen for 2008, 1.5 times current sales.
Reported in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun on November 2, 2006 and in the Kitanippon Shimbun and Toyama Shimbun on November 3, 2006
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI expands "GS MILL" series products, ultra-hardened dies jointly developed with Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp. The newly released three series include "GS MILL Slot,", "GS MILL Heavy" and " GS MILL Radius" guaranteeing highly efficient and high quality performance of even the most-difficult machining processes.
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