CKD offers unique and better values to customers

Posted in: Business Times – Japan 2015 Started by Benj

CKD offers unique and better values to customers

CKD Corporation’s state-of-the-art automation technology for pharmaceutical packaging (FBP series)

Pioneering Automation Company, CKD Corporation has delivered technologies to customers for over seven decades. The Corporation’s technologies are used in the lighting, automobile, pharmaceutical, computer equipment and food industries. The Aichi, Japan based company has successfully developed its overseas business and continues to provide developing countries across Southeast Asia with leading automation solutions.

“Over the last five years, we have made significant investments across Asia and our overseas business has driven our company’s growth,” says Kazunori Kajimoto, President of CKD Corporation. “We recently invested in a new facility in China to increase production and last year we established trading companies in Indonesia and Vietnam.This coming June, we are pleased to announce that we will commence manufacturing at our Indonesian factory.”

The company’s Automatic Machinery division is one of CKD’s two main business segments. The division manufactures customized automated packaging machines for the pharmaceutical and food industries as well as machines for lithium-ion battery winding, 3D solder inspection and lamp manufacturing.

CKD’s component division accounts for the company’s other business segment.The company’s 7,000 product categories in pneumatic and fluid control components are used in a variety of industries and applications including pneumatic-controlled components for use in folding bus-doors.

Kazunori Kajimoto, President, CKD Corporation

“While our component business remains our most significant growth driver in Southeast Asia, demand for our automatic machinery business, particularly for the food industry is increasing”, says Kajimoto. “Our Southeast Asian business is being overseen by our regional marketing office in Singapore and we see huge potential for our business in this area. As a leader within our industry in Japan, we are in a strong position to transfer our technologies to countries looking to increase their automation capabilities.”

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Southeast Asia’s growing population and continued economic development is providing CKD with growth opportunities and enabling the company to contribute to social development initiatives across the region.

“While providing key solutions to manufacturing industries in Southeast Asia, we also want to contribute to the improvement of societies,” says Kajimoto. “By offering unique and better values to customers, we will continue to develop our relations in Southeast Asia and Singapore and we look forward to the next fifty years.”