ABOUT US
Company Profile
| Company Name | Sekigahara Seisakusho Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Location |
Head Office Factory: Tokyo Sales Office: |
| Founded | November 4, 1946 |
| President | Hideaki Yabashi |
| Paid-in Capital | 247,000,000 yen |
| Sales | 24.6 billion yen (as of the end of May 2024) |
| Number of Employees | 388 (as of the end of May 2024) |
| Factory Area | Headquarters: 150,000 square meters Building: 50,000 square meters |
| Key Customers | Komatsu Ltd., Toray Engineering Co., Ltd., Lasertec Corporation, Nikon Corporation, Panasonic Production Engineering Co., Ltd., Central Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company, Kyushu Railway Company, East Japan Railway Company, Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan Marine United Co., Ltd., Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Japan Coast Guard, Fisheries Agency, Japan Vehicle Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd., Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, NSK Ltd., NTN Corporation, Nachi-Fujikoshi Corporation, JTEKT Corporation (Titles omitted, in no particular order) |
Affiliated Companies
Relationship
We operate in accordance with our philosophy of "Seeking Ningenhiroba Endlessly" and are comprised of three companies and a foundation: Sekigahara Seisakusho, Sekigahara General Service, Nantong Sekigahara Machinery Manufacturing, and Sekigahara Ningenmura Foundation, General Foundation. Each of which organically works together to create values.
History
- 1946
- The founder President Goro Yabashi established Sekigahara Sangyo Co., Ltd. to the current address
Established with the main production of railway equipment for the Japanese National Railways - 1948
- Company name changed to Sekigahara Seisakusho Ltd.
- 1950
- Developed and started sales of marine cranes and lifeboat davits
- 1958
- Developed and started sales of centering machines (special machine tools)
- 1959
- Started production of hydraulic cylinders for Komatsu Ltd.
- 1963
- Developed and started sales of overhead traveling cranes for factories
- 1971
- Started production of tunnel excavators for Komatsu Ltd.
- 1978
- Shozaburo Yabashi was inaugurated as the second president
- 1983
- Awarded "Prize of Komatsu Quality Control"
Established Sekigahara General Service Co., Ltd. - 1987
- Acquired commercial rights of precision granite products, developed and started sales of products
- 1996
- Merged affiliated company Gifu Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
Signed Distributorship Agreement with Palfinger (Austria), started selling foldable knuckle boom cranes as "PALSEK MARINE" brand mainly for governmental vessels and special vessels.
Acquired ISO 9002 certification (for precision granite equipment business, etc.) - 1998
- Awarded a prize "Excellent Company of Human Ability Development in 1997" from Japan Management Association
Acquired ISO 9001 certification (for companywide, all products) - 2000
- Developed and started sales of granite ultra-precision equipment "New XY stage (air slider)"
- 2001
- Fully renovated the casting product plant and expanded granite ultra-precision equipment business
- 2002
- Fully renovated the hydraulic cylinder plant to increase production
- 2003
- Developed and started sales of special cranes for nuclear power plants Established Fukushima Plant as a processing specialty factory due to strengthening precision granite production system
- 2004
- Signed Collaboration Agreement for Free-fall Lifeboat Launching System with Hatecke (Germany), developed new model products and started sales
- 2005
- Increased capital from 52 million yen to 202 million yen
- 2006
- Inaugurated Nobutsugu Ohira as the third president, and Shozaburo Yabashi was inaugurated as chairman Started production of axle assembly products for Komatsu mining machines Established the Chinese joint venture "Nantong Sekigahara Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd." and started production of marine cranes and davits Newly established the 3rd plant in order to respond to upsizing precision granite products
- 2007
- Awarded "The Good Company Grand Prize, Tokai Region Excellence Company Award"
- 2008
- Acquired ISO 14001 certification
- 2009
- Awarded "Gifu Newspaper Grand Prize (Industry Division)"
Developed and started sales of fully electric motor driven of Free-fall Lifeboat Launching System, prior to the world
Established General foundation “Sekigahara Ningenmura Foundation - 2010
- Completed “Shine’s Building (Employees’ Building)”
- 2011
- Inaugurated Koji Sakuma as the fourth president
- 2012
- Nantong Sekigahara Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. became independent
- 2015
- Inaugurated Masayuki Kodera as the fifth president
- 2016
- Acquired OHSAS 18001 certification
- 2018
- Inaugurated Hideaki Yabashi as the sixth president
- 2019
- Selected one of "Habataku Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, 300 small businesses", conducted by the METI
- 2020
- Selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as a "Regional Future Driving Company"
- 2022
- Received “National Green Factory Grand Prize (Japan Greening Center Chairman's Award)”
Business alliance with Toko Iron Works Co., Ltd. for domestic made davit cranes - 2023
- Certified as “Certified Health & Productivity Management Organization 2023 (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Category)” Winner of “Good Company Grand Prix”
Commendation
Good Company Grand Prix Winner
We received the highest award at the 57th (2023) Good Company Grand Prix, sponsored by the Center for Small and Medium Enterprises. This award recognizes companies that have achieved outstanding economic and social results from among small and medium-sized enterprises nationwide for Japan's oldest and most successful SMEs. The reason for the award was that we were recognized for our efforts to create “Hiroba (space)” in which everyone plays a leading role based on our philosophy, and for our business activities that continue to create values.
300 Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Micro-businesses
In 2019, we received an award in the "Developing Leaders" category in recognition of our proactive efforts to develop human resources through three activities, "Learning Center", "Technical Sessions", and "Cultural Events."
Companies that Drive the Future of the Region
In 2020, we were selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as having the potential to play a leading role in the regional economy, and received an award.
Green Factory Grand Prize
In 2023, we received an award in recognition of the improvement of the environment inside and outside the plant and the use of the lawn area for events in the local community.
Policy Statements of Occupational Health and Safety,
Environment and Quality
Policy Statements of Occupational Health and Safety
Employees’ health and safety shall be the foundation of the company's sustaining, ensuring health and safety is a social responsibility for our company. Since we think “A company represents its people’, we are aiming to realize workplace environment that considers health and safety as we promote the creation of "Ningen Hiroba that everyone is the principal".
- In consideration of our business activities, products or services, we shall establish a health and safety management system conforming to OHSAS 18001: 2007 and make continuous improvement and progress for prevention of disasters and diseases, and improvement of health and safety performance.
- We comply with various occupational health and safety related laws and regulations and observe our own health and safety decisions.
- Collaborating between labor and management, we shall promote health and safety activities involving all employees, and endeavor vivacious health and safety activities through communication with local communities.
- We shall set our aims and targets, work on activities to achieve them, assess them through periodic reviews and make continuous improvements.
1) We shall work on risk management to prevent occupational accidents.
2) We shall work on creating a workplace where employees can work safely and securely.
3) We shall provide products and services that can be used with no risk. - Employees themselves will be aware of the obligation and activities for health and safety, we will endeavor to participate, maintain and improve the activities.
- We shall promote education, training and acquiring qualification necessary for health and safety activities aiming to raise awareness.
Environmental Policy Statement
Sekigahara Seisakusho Ltd. establishes our Environmental Policy that “We think ‘people comes first’, and we recognize that it is our responsibility to protect the irreplaceable natural beauty for ‘people’. We contribute to society with environmental conservation through our ‘Characteristic manufacturing techniques’”.
In order to continuously improve environmental performance, we shall establish the Environmental Management System conforming to JIS Q 14001: 2015 (ISO 14001: 2015), and the management instructs to all employees to implement it.
We shall strive to further study of the unique manufacturing technology for environmental preservation.
We shall always consider the environmental impact resulting of business activities, products or services, and we shall work to reduce environmental impact and prevent pollution.
We shall set up our own aims and targets and execute them, we shall continuously improve our environmental protection activities towards achieving that goal.
We shall comply with laws and other requirements agreed by our company and shall continuously respond to customer expectations and needs through our own environmental conservation activities.
Quality Policy Statement
Sekigahara Seisakusho Ltd. shall establish the Quality Policy under “We strives to create constantly new business domains by developing and inheriting unique manufacturing techniques and contributes to society in response to market demands " and our Tertiary Founding Philosophy "Pursuit of quality and reliability"
We provide customers with reliability and satisfaction with our unique manufacturing technologies.
- We “each of us” take actions against problems of our company
- We have a responsibility and pride in our manufacturing
- Our pleasure is to make customers pleased
Our company has taken the first step in evolving into a "100-year-old enterprise", we always consider from the customer's point of view and continuously propose values to customers. We believe that we are able to meet customers' expectations if we continue to follow our Tertiary Founding Philosophy "Pursuit of quality and reliability".
In order to achieve the quality policy mentioned above, we conduct the following.
We shall establish the Quality Management System conforming to JIS Q 9001:2015 (ISO 9001:2015), and the management instructs to all employees to implement it.
The management formulates the president's policy at the beginning of every financial year, sets quality targets and disseminates them within the organization.
In addition, we hold opportunities of communication both inside and outside of the organization, sharing and reviewing company’s policy and targets in "Full Participation", and we “continue to improve” the Quality Management System.
To ensure that all employees understand this quality policy, we shall declare the following as a slogan, post it in our company, and thoroughly disseminate the concept of "Customers comes first" to all employees.
Slogan
"Each of us shall get involved in QMM (Quality, Mission and Moral) activity and get customers
trust with all employees playing the lead roles."