Tomoki Okawa
President
We Okawa Screw Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is the company with the integrated system of development, manufacturing and sales for automotive various metal parts. Our core products such as a brake hose end fitting is the critical safety parts with strict requirement and standard. We take pride in the fact that our product has been chosen by major auto manufacturers means the value of “Okawa quality”.
The manufacturing technology for metal parts, especially cold forging technology, which gives form to "Okawa Quality" is the greatest strength and unique art of us. Everything started in 1964 when my grandfather Mr. Tomeo Okawa, who is the second generation president, installed a parts-former from the U.S, which was very rare one of a few machines in Japan. Since then Okawa have actively invested and take advantage of machines with innovative function, have developed skillful engineers and have created new technologies and products. This is our ageless DNA of us. Our next vision is that we develop ourselves more to create contribution to our customers and happiness of our employees in pursuit of manufacturing technology and underlying pleasure.
We reach 100th anniversary in the coming year 2034. Looking ahead as a company with 100-year-history, we fucus on more efficiency of the current facilities by automation, sales promotion overseas, adaptation to needs for new markets such as transition to EV, unknown technology and products which will be required in the future. Please expect new technology generated by us as a partner who try new manufacturing together. We promise you to contribute to your business development.
What we put importance on is that we give our attention in good faith to happiness of our all employees as well as contribution to our customers, local community and society and develop ourselves to realize them.
We continue to give it a try with consideration that there will be no contribution to society without happiness of all our employees.
We provide society with values of safety and security with Okawa quality and art innovate cutting edge technology.
Through the pleasure of manufacturing, we will continue to evolve both as a company and as people, and aim to contribute to our customers and to enrich their lives.
No innovation without a try. We will continue to evolve with the spirit of "Let's give it a try, and if it fails, just bring it back".
Family management means "creating a place" that makes opportunities for each person to grow and to demonstrate teamwork between by the "company" and the "employee" becoming a unit as a family.
To make "work" that people invest most of their life into to be more pleasant and richer, we are focusing on creating employee growth. Each person works as oneself, individually growing. As a result, we believe that the company will also grow.
Teamwork is indispensable to realize accomplishments that cannot be accomplished by oneself, and as employees of the GRAN FAMILIA, to be compassionate, to be sincere, to be faithful, to be always fair and to be moralistic are an important promise we make.
Company Name | Okawa Screw Manufacturing Co., Ltd. |
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Founded | May 1934 |
Capital | 100 million yen |
Sales | 5,554 million yen (as of December 2022) |
Representative |
Chairman: Katsuyoshi Okawa President: Tomoki Okawa |
Head office | 7F NMF Takanawa Building, 2-20-4 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0022 |
Number of employees | Individually:377 Consolidated:839 (as of December 2022) |
Business activities |
(1) Development, manufacturing and sales of critical safety parts for automobiles and motorcycles (2) Development, manufacturing and sales of various functional parts for automobiles and motorcycles (3) Development, manufacturing and sales of various metal processing products |
Main customers | Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Proterial, Ltd., Nichirin Co., Ltd., UD Trucks Corporation, Aichi Machine Industry Co., Ltd., Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Nissan Kohki Co., Ltd., JATCO Ltd., Panasonic Electric Works Asahi Co., Ltd. AS Brake Systems Inc., Ohashi Technica, Inc., Saga Tekkohsho Co., Ltd., IWATA BOLT CO., LTD., Bridgestone Flowtech Corporation, NISSAN TRADING CO., LTD., USUI CO., LTD. Others (without honorifics - in no particular order) |
Bank References | MUFG Bank, Ltd. (Jiyugaoka Branch), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Meguro Branch & Gotanda Branch), Japan Policy Finance Corporation (Shinjuku Branch), Joyo Bank, Ltd.(Urizura Branch), Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Resona Bank, Limited .(Ikebukuro Branch) |
Technologies Licensed Out |
USA: Hitachi Cable America Inc. South Korea: Jin Hap Industry Co., Ltd. |
Licenses Acquired |
TORX Registered trademark ISO9001: Acquired in 2015 ISO14001: Acquired in 2015 |
Group company | THAI OKAWA CO.,LTD., OKAWA MEXICANA,S.A.de C.V., Toyo Brazing Kogyo Co., Ltd., Great River Co., Ltd., PLUGO Co., Ltd., Avision Co., Ltd. |
7F NMF Takanawa Building, 2-20-4 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0022
Ph. +81-3-3280-1811 (switchboard)
Fax +81-3-3280-1820
6357-1 Oba, Hitachi Omiya City, Ibaraki Prefecture 319-2132
Ph. +81-295-53-0111 (switchboard)
Fax +81-295-53-3555
1663-4 Nippacho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture 223-0057
Ph. +81-45-541-1481 (switchboard)
Fax +81-45-542-3069
98 Nagamuro, Shikata-cho, Kakogawa City, Hyogo Prefecture 675-0347
Ph. +81-79-490-3705 (switchboard)
Fax +81-79-490-3707
Established in 1989 as our first overseas factory. We established a production system overseas the earliest among other automobile parts suppliers.
Established in 2012 to respond to the accelerating globalization of the automobile industry. We are actively developing business on the global market.
1934 | Gisaburo Okawa, the first president of the company independently established Oikawa Rashi Seisakusho in Minato-ku, Tokyo. |
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1943 | Reorganized into a joint stock corporation and renamed as Okawa Screw Manufacturing Co., Ltd. |
1945 | Started trading with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. |
1951 | The company's capital was increased to 700,000 yen. |
1959 | Authorized by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry as a plant to manufacture grease nipples in accordance with Japanese Industrial Standards Labeling Plant (Grant No. 6594). |
1963 | The company’s capital was increased to 20.4 million yen. |
1964 |
Opened the Yokohama Factory and began production of parts with cold pressure processing to mainly use a parts former manufactured by Waterbury (US). Began production of bearing shafts for light electrical appliances using multi-spindle automatic lashes from Davenport (US) and Schutte (West Germany). |
1965 | Began production of automobile brake hose end fittings using a new manufacturing processing method. (Manufacturing patent) |
1967 | Tomeo Okawa appointed as President. Expanded to a 3rd factory built Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City. Increased the number of Waterbury (US) parts formers. |
1973 |
New Mito Factory (1st phase of construction) built in Omiya Town, Naka-gun (currently Hitachi Omiya city), Ibaraki prefecture. Established the sister company Toyo Brazing Kogyo Co., Ltd. next to the Mito Factory to streamline production. |
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1977 | Expanded the Mito Factory (2nd phase of construction). |
1979 | Corporate head office moved from Meguro to Jiyugaoka, Tokyo. |
1981 | Began use of the Hatebur (Switzerland) AKP4-5 parts former to improve the production system. |
1984 | Began use of the Hatebur (Switzerland) AKP4-5 parts former. Began use of Sakamura (Japan) FR325 parts former. |
1985 |
With the addition of the brake hose end fitting production line, the monthly production achieved 5 million units. Began use of Sakamura (Japan) FR330 bolts former. |
1986 |
Began use of Sakamura (Japan) FR325 bolts former. Began use of 2 units of Sakamura (Japan) FR630 and FR530 bolts formers. |
1988 | Began use of an Automatic depot system at the Mito Factory. |
1989 |
Capital increased to 104 million yen. Began use of Sakamura (Japan) FR330 bolts former. With the addition of the stud bolt production line, the monthly production achieved 13 million units. Licensed out of technology of the brake hose end fitting manufacturing line to US. Established THAI OKAWA Co., Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand. |
1990 | Began use of Sakamura (Japan) FR630 parts former. |
1991 | With the addition of the brake hose end fitting production line, the monthly production achieved 8 million units. |
1992 | Licensed out of technology of the brake hose end fitting manufacturing line to South Korea. |
1994 | Tomeo Okawa appointed as Advisor. Katsuyoshi Okawa appointed as President. |
1996 | Corporate head office moved from Jiyugaoka to Gotanda, Tokyo. |
1997 | Acquired US "Fastener Quality Act; FQA". |
1998 | Created the exclusive technology "Integrated molding of brake hose end fittings" using our "7 step parts former". |
2000 | ISO 9002: Acquired certification for the 1994 version of ISO 9002. |
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2003 | Acquired certification for the 2000 version of ISO 9001. Capital increased to 10 million yen. |
2005 | Expanded to the 3rd plant at the Mito Factory. Acquired certification for the 2004 version of ISO 14001. |
2007 | Triple-A (AAA) rating awarded by Standard & Poor’s in the Japanese SME ratings. (For the period ended June 2007) |
2008 |
Triple-A (AAA) rating awarded by Standard & Poor’s in the Japanese SME ratings. (For the period ended June 2008) Acquired certification for the 2008 version of ISO 9001. |
2009 |
THAI OKAWA Co., Ltd. expanded and moved all production to the Rayong province. Certified as a Shinagawa-ku Eco Green Office. Participated in the activity of Team Minus 6%. Began the use of Hatebur AKP4-6 parts former. |
2011 | Launched own brand’s LED solar outdoor lighting "TRUST ONE". |
2012 |
Expanded the 2nd factory at THAI OKAWA Co., Ltd. Established OKAWA MEXICANA, S.A. de C.V. in the United Mexican States. |
2013 | OKAWA MEXICANA, S.A. de C.V. factory completed. |
2014 |
OKAWA MEXICANA, S.A. de C.V. factory launched full-scale production. Launched 2nd edition of LED solar outdoor lighting "TRUST ONE SLIM". |
2016 | Expanded OKAWA MEXICANA S.A. de C.V. factory (1.5 constructions). |
2017 | Established the R&D center in the Mito Factory. |
2018 | Katsuyoshi Okawa appointed as Chairman. Naoki Okawa appointed as President. |
2019 |
Established Kakogawa Branch in Kakogawa city, Hyogo prefecture. Established OKAWA SCREW MANUFACTURING CO.,LTD. OF REPRESENT EN ESPANA in Spain. |
2021 | Expanded to the 4th plant at the Mito Factory. |
2022 | Naoki Okawa appointed as Part-time Director. Tomoki Okawa appointed as President. |
We have acquired certification of the quality management system (ISO 9001: 2015) and the environmental management system (ISO 14001: 2015), and we are operating an "Environment and Quality Integrated Management System".
In THAI OKAWA (THAI OKAWA Co., Ltd.) and OKAWA MEXICANA (OKAWA MEXICANA, SA de CV), which are overseas production bases, we have acquired ISO / TS16949 certification, an international quality management standard for the automobile industry. We are working to improve our quality management system and product quality.
1.Reduce process and post-delivery quality rejections to 0%
2.Reduce energy use
3.Reduce waste material
4.Lower our dependence on hazardous substances
5.Improve product yields