“Our research and development capabilities and focus on business outcomes have enabled us to create a strong company with a trusted approach to client needs”.

SATO Europe GmbH Benelux, the regional office of SATO with its base in Harmelen in the Netherlands, provides companies in Europe with Auto-ID solutions for track & trace integrating labels, barcode printing, RFID and more. RFID uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to products including labels, tickets and wristbands.

“Healthcare is a really important market for us”, says Konishi. “Our main markets as of now are manufacturing, logistics and retail, which account for sixty percent of our total business but healthcare is a growing area of our business. Healthcare digitization will play a significant role in supporting new and improved models of patient service. SATO can support by enabling healthcare IoT for benefits such as labor savings and improved patient comfort”.

SATO Europe GmbH Benelux, currently with 20 people workforce, is on track to grow its client base across the region and expand to the rest of Europe as well.

“We intend to increase our customer base by working more closely with European and Japanese companies”, says Konishi. “We want to be the preferred provider in the fields of barcode printing and RFID technology via our capable business partners”.

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Today, the company produces almost 30,000 metric tons of synthetic magnesium compounds.
Doing business in an often challenging industry, Oolbekkink recalls the company’s approach to facing market pressures and planning for the future:

Kisuma Chemicals’ almost one hundred employees will celebrate the company’s twentieth anniversary next year and as the company’s first non-Japanese managing director, Oolbekkink is confident about the company’s future.

“We intend to deliver the best products to our customers and be a sustainable long-term employer. We will continue to co-operate with clients, universities, and research institutes as we strengthen our business and plan for future growth”.

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“Driven by our achievements and the opportunities we saw in the European market, we established Eagle Holding Europe in Kerkrade, the Netherlands in 2010. We have since strengthened our production and research and development capabilities and today we are well-positioned to coordinate our European operations, which include two in France and one each in Hungary, Germany, and Netherlands.

“From the early days, I believed in the concept and while it was a tough start, we have achieved great things”, says Tans.

With 1.7 million listed properties and 17,000 employees in over 225 countries and territories, Booking.com has become the leader in its field.

One reason for Booking.com’s success is the innovation-driven culture which has been nurtured across all platforms within the company.

“We always innovate and constantly look for ways to make the traveler’s experience more enjoyable”, says Tans. “We empower customers by providing them with quick-decision making capabilities and deliver a variety of solutions”.

The company not only provides access to accommodation worldwide, but has moved into the transportation and attractions sectors.

“Booking.com has become increasingly popular as today’s traveler often spends more time planning a trip than actually enjoying a holiday”, says Tans. “We want to make sure that people are in a position to make easier, faster and better decisions with regard to every aspect of their planning”.

The company has introduced a ‘Chatbot’ program called ‘Booking Assistant’ which uses artificial intelligence. The program simulates conversations with users to provide fast, accurate and custom-made responses. While currently only available in English, the program will be available in a variety of languages over the course of the next year, including Japanese, a priority country for Booking.com.

Japan ranks as one of the world’s highest for smartphone travel bookings and Tans sees this as an excellent opportunity for Booking.com.

“As the seventh most popular destination on our platform, Japan is very important to us. We established six offices in Japan and a call-center and have a team of 370 people to support our property partners locally as well as to assist our customers with their travel arrangements. We expect Japan to continue to be an important country for Booking.com as we look towards the future”.

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“One of the key deliverables of ‘dynaEdge’ is the ‘you see what I see’ concept”, explains Martin Jansen, Toshiba Benelux’s product manager.

“The device enables experts to see the same view as the user and therefore assist them remotely. The combination of the device itself and the ‘wearable-tech’ allows for faster and more accurate calculations and processes”.

The ‘Internet of Things’ model combined with data protection and privacy law concerns are driving Ravel and his team to deliver tailored-solutions to clients across BENELUX (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg).

“We are providing customers with the best Toshiba has to offer in terms of cutting-edge business-solutions”, says Ravel. “Our clients demand greater innovations and we are committed to delivering greater efficiency, mobility and security”.

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“From high-performance tires, fiber-optic cables, airplanes and helicopters, lithium batteries, mattresses, ropes, military and police equipment, ‘Twaron’ can be found literally everywhere”, says Gert Frederiks, President and CEO of Teijin Aramid.

“By being tougher and lighter than steel, non-magnetic and maintenance-free, ‘Twaron’ is the ideal material for almost anything and given its light-weight properties, it is also an energy efficient material”.

With strong corporate social responsibility commitments, Teijin Aramid is constantly sharing products and technology with society and today ‘Twaron’ can be found at one of Amsterdam’s most notable attractions, the Stedelijk Museum.

“We worked with the architect to extend the Stedelijk Museumusing ‘Twaron’ which has a negative expansion coefficient”, says Frederiks. “Any other material would have been ‘expandable’ and therefore unsuitable”.

Frederiks, who has been heading Teijin Aramid since 2010,recently announced an increase in capacity of more than twenty five per cent over the next five years in order to cope with high demand.

“We are looking forward to the future and fully expect demand to increase as we strengthen our existing customer base by winning new business”.

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In the Netherlands and have since established offices in Belgium, The United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Italy. Next to that, we have sales in several other countries throughout Europe to meet the increasing demand for Yakult products”, says managing director Hiroyasu Matsubara.

Matsubara joined Yakult in 1995 in the United Kingdom and moved to the Netherlands in 2017 to spearhead the company’s pan-European operations.

Today, the company is the leader in probiotic drinks in the Netherlands, also their second largest European market.

“The Netherland is very important to us, not only as a market for our products but also as a host country” says Matsubara. “We have assimilated the positive traits of Japanese and Dutch cultures to create our own unique identity within Yakult Europe”.

The probiotics sector in Europe has few established players but a lot of potential, given the fact that health and nutrition are becoming increasingly important for the people.

“We see huge opportunities for the future”, concludes Matsubara. “We intend to continue strengthening our winning strategy to achieve our growth targets.
Since the first bottle of Yakult was produced in Europe on 28th March 1994, our European customers have appreciated our ‘Japanese quality’ products and we look forward to continuing to serve our customers across Europe”.

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“The synergy of our two companies can be traced back to our founding’s. The expertise and experience that have been build up over the years, in both companies can now be combined. This makes us capable to design and build sophisticated machinery for all the challenges in the packaging industry”, says Jeroen Mulder, managing director of Omori Europe.

“Omori is constantly encouraging us to innovate and this confirms the trust in which they have in our capabilities”, says Ms. Geeraths, marketing and sales director of Omori Europe. “Through our ideas, market knowledge, and comprehensive network; we are in a position to adapt and distribute Omori machinery to clients across Europe”.

Recognizing the importance of open communication, the two companies regularly exchange ideas on moving forward in innovation and design, in order to maintain their leading role in the industry.

“We have successfully combined Japanese and Dutch engineering techniques and our partnership will lead us to become the preferred solutions provider for our clients”, explains Mulder.

Smart-packaging’ is part of the company’s future strategy. “It is our responsibility as packaging machinery manufacturer to address the potentially harmful environmental effects of plastics, used as main flexible packaging material”.
“We have developed easy-to-open and re-closable packaging solutions to achieve user friendliness and a significant reduction of plastic waste”, says Mulder.
“We intend to innovate as we grow our business and further strengthen our partnership with our Japanese friends”.

As the company gears towards further growth, Mulder and Geeraths expect Omori Europe to gain more market share and expand their clientele in the European packaging industry.”

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