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Company profile

Company name
Kyoei Forging Works Co., Ltd.
President
Eitaro Saito
Establishment
April, 1930
Capital fund
10,000,000 yen
Business purpose
  1. Designing and manufacturing forging items
  2. Designing and manufacturing forging molds and pressing molds
  3. Mechanical processing and heat treatment accompanying the forging processes
  4. Operations related to the items 1, 2, and 3
Head office / Factory
2781 Osaki, Sanjo-Shi, Niigata 959-1148
  • TEL: +81-256-45-3171 (Main)
  • FAX: +81-256-45-3872
  • Email: kyoei@kyoei-fw.co.jp
Factory site
28,700㎡
Number of employees
90
Description of business
Manufacturing capability 600t/month
Location
  • Head office: 2781 Osaki, Sanjo-shi, Niigata 959-1148
  • KYOEI U.S.A.,INC:534 West Algonquin Road Arlington Heights,IL 60005
Main products
  • Conveyor chain parts
  • Auto parts
  • Agricultural machinery parts
  • Construction machinery parts
  • Motorcycle parts
  • Special tools
– Head office: 2781 Osaki, Sanjo-shi, Niigata 959-1148

Access

Kyoei Forging Works Co., Ltd.
2781 Osaki, Sanjo-Shi, Niigata 959-1148
TEL/0256-45-3171
By car
  • About 14 minutes from Tsubame Sanjo station via Route 403
  • About 15 minutes from Tsubame Sanjo station via Hokuriku Expressway
  • About 5minutes from Sakae Smart Inter Change of Hokuriku Expressway

Message from the president

We integrate traditional techniques and up-to-date equipment to provide high quality products.

We have welcomed the 21st century, and Japan established a position as the world leader in technology.
People’s unending motivation for innovation is bringing rich human society and advanced technological society. Society that has been subdivided and complicated demands new harmonization between people and technology.

Since established in 1930, as the core of industrial machinery industry that support every industry in and outside of Japan, our company has been providing products with up-to-date production facilities that can endure the tough use conditions by integrating long-accumulated expertise and up-to-date technology.

Our users’ prosperity and contentment are KYOEI’s joy. We adopt “become a good brain that continues to provide high quality products” as our motto, and we would like to work together to contribute to society.

We highly appreciate your continuous advice and guidance.

Eitaro Saito, President

Company history

April, 1930
Established Saito Garden Shear Factory at Monzenmachi, Sanjo-shi (Founder: Shoichi Saito)
October, 1941
150 shear factories gathered and founded Sanjo Forged Cutlery Steel Industry Associations at 606 Shimada, Sanjo-shi. Shoichi Saito assumed the post of the president and manufactured and sold thread nippers for the clothing department of the Army, snips for cutting iron plates for airplanes, and other tools for manufacturing airplanes of Nakajima Aircraft Company in Gunma.
March, 1945
Reorganized as a stock company. Mainly worked on forging sewing machine parts.
March, 1958
Changed company name to Kyoei Forging Works Co., Ltd., and shifted main manufactures to working tools such as wrenches and pliers.
October, 1969
Opened a new forging factory in Kaneko Shinden, Sanjo-shi for producing forged machinery parts.
December, 1971
Opened a second forging factory in Osaki, Sanjo-shi.
January, 1974
Opened a finishing factory in Osaki, Sanjo-shi.
January, 1977
Moved head office and molding and pressing factories to 2781 Osaki, Sanjo-shi, where our company presently locates.
November, 1981
Opened a new factory in Osaki, Sanjo-shi to combine 1st and 2nd forging factories, trying to streamline the operations and improve quality assurance and productivity.
September, 1985
Established an automated warehouse system for systematizing management of molds.
September, 1990
Built an additional factory for cutting materials.
June, 1991
Yoichi Saito became 2nd president of the company.
July, 1992
Built additional factory for inspections and finishing parts, emphasizing the working environment and product improvement.
September, 1992
Moved and rebuilt the pressing factory.
September, 1997
Installed 3D CAD/CAM system and high speed direct carving processing machine for improving molds productivity.
January, 2003
Obtained ISO-9001 certification.
April, 2004
Built new office building and welfare facilities.
April, 2004
Awarded Supplier Quality Development Award (S. Q. D.) from Daifuku Co., Ltd.
August, 2005
Newly built pressing and processing factory for improving working environment and efficiency.
March, 2007
Being elected by Deere & Company as the best cooperative company for the fifth year straight, and have been inducted into the Hall of Fame as the best partner company.
August, 2007
Established KYOEI U.S.A., INC as a business base in North America.
January, 2009
Completed the construction of new forging factory.
April, 2014
Installed a 3-ton high speed air drop hammer.
November, 2014
Installed a 150-ton digital servo press.
April, 2015
Elected as one of the 300 small and medium-sized companies that make efforts on becoming a role model for contributing to local communities and revitalizing the local economy by developing innovative products and creating services.
April, 2017
Eitaro Saito became 3rd president of the company.
May, 2019
Our commercial won the Silver Award at the 3rd Animonozukuri Awards (awards honoring commercials, products, technology, traditional crafts, etc that use Japanese pop culture).
Dec, 2019
The Medium and Small Business Research Institute (Good Company Award Special Prize).

Commercial and poster gallery

Here is our new commercial. It shows integration of our excellent technical capability and up-to-date equipment with detailed animation of machines moving dynamically. Please watch and enjoy.

第3回アニものづくりAWARD SILVER

Our commercial won the Silver Award at the 3rd Animonozukuri Awards (awards honoring commercials, products, technology, traditional crafts, etc that use Japanese pop culture).

  • Our new commercial (15 seconds version)
  • Our new commercial (30 seconds version)
  • Our new commercial (45 seconds version)
  • Our commercial original song version (15 seconds version)
  • Our commercial original song version (30 seconds version)
  • Our commercial original song version (45 seconds version)

Other commercials

  • Video broadcast on trains
  • Video broadcast on digital signage at stations (Tsubame Sanjo, Higashi Sanjo, and Yoshida)
  • Video broadcast on digital signage at a theater (Aeon Mall Niigata Minami)
  • Radio CM Animation 1: Sales Manager
  • Radio CM Animation 2: New Machine
  • Radio CM Animation 3: Technological Advanced Nation
  • Radio CM Game 1: Establishment in 1930
  • Radio CM Game 2: Environmentally Consciousness
  • Radio CM Game 3: Advanced Training

Posters