Chikara Yanai, Managing Executive Officer, has assumed the position of President.

Kohan Kogyo Co., Ltd. Taiwan Branch has relocated.

Our website has been renewed.

We have organized a new team named “President Office Project for Planting Seeds for Future Opportunities.”

Yukimasa Shiomichi, former Senior Executive Officer, has assumed the position of President.

Mishima Sales Group for hard materials sales has been established in Shizuoka prefecture.

Tokyo Sales Department has relocated to the Osaki Forest Building (Toyo Seikan Group’s headquarters).

Mishima Branch of Hard Materials Works has been established in Shizuoka prefecture.

We will establish a new production base for our surface modification business in Shizuoka in September 2018.

Kohan Kogyo Korea Co., Ltd. has relocated to Busan, Korea.

We have installed additional nitriding furnace for the Plasma Hard nitriding process at Hard Materials Works.

We have created Management Planning Division.

Kazunori Nakano, former Senior Executive Officer, has assumed the position of President.

We have established Kohan Kogyo Korea Co., Ltd. in Seoul, Korea.

We have established Kohan Kogyo Co., Ltd. Taiwan Liaison Office in Taichung, Taiwan.

Our website has been renewed.

Nagoya Sales Group of Osaka Branch has relocated.

Toshio Yamamoto, former Vice President, has been appointed as President, while the position of vice president has been abolished due to organizational changes.

Hard materials (KHM) sales operations of Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd. have been transferred to Kohan Kogyo to achieve integrated management of production and sales for hard materials.

We have reorganized Tokyo Branch by establishing Machinery Sales Department and Hard Materials Sales Department in the office, and created Nagoya Sales Group, in addition to Osaka Sales Group, in Osaka Branch.

The position of vice president has been created following a reorganization.

We have established Toyo Kohan Shanghai Co., Ltd. as a new sales and service base in Shanghai, China.

Our Chinese-language website is now open.

The instruction manuals of BESTORQUE SA, SA-P and BIII models have been renewed from a safety perspective.

Our website has been renewed.