Message from the President

In 2025, Kataken Seiko marked 50 years since its founding. Our founder, Kazuo Hamada, worked with dies and molds at an electronic components manufacturer and studied die and mold making in the United States, which was then at the cutting edge of the field. After returning to Japan, his experience in the US led him to conclude that "making high-precision dies and molds requires standardized die and mold structures," and he made a major contribution to Japan's JIS standards for dies and molds. Since then, the dies, molds and production systems we have built have been described as "the world's smallest" and "the world's fastest," and we have continued to create advanced manufacturing suited to the times.

Today, the Japanese die and mold industry is said to be losing its competitiveness as it struggles with cost competition from companies in China, South Korea and emerging Asian countries. In response, rather than resorting to easy cost-cutting, we continue to raise our own technical capabilities and develop products that other companies do not offer. Doing so "requires a certain scale of business." Taking on new challenges involves risk, and we need the financial strength and production capacity to withstand it. By continually investing ahead and focusing on equipment and developing our people, we receive orders from countries around the world.

We regard the years ahead as our second founding period. Leveraging the integrated mechanical and electrical engineering expertise we have built up in dies and molds, production and equipment, we will continue to take on the challenge of creating new value.