COMPANY OVERVIEW

Company Profile

Company Name KANETA KOGYO CO., LTD.
Established January 13, 1949
Capital ¥45,000,000
Business Portfolio
  • Manufacture of shafts for 2-wheel vehicles, 4-wheel vehicles, and general-purpose equipments
  • Sales of various types of threaded products
Major Customers Honda Motor Co., Ltd., JATCO Ltd., NSK-Warner K.K., F.C.C. Co., Ltd., Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., SHOWA CORPORATION, KYB Corporation, AIKITEC CO., LTD., SUBARU CORPORATION (in no particular order)

Company History

May, 1947

Founded at 88 Kitaterajima-cho, Hamamatsu, with the purpose of selling threaded products.

Jan, 1949

Kaneta Shokai Co., Ltd. was founded with capital of ¥500,000.

May, 1953

Changed company name to Kaneta Neji Co., Ltd. and built the new Nazuka Factory.

Dec, 1959

Moved the factory to Funakoshi-cho, Hamamatsu and closed the Nazuka Factory.

Nov, 1960

Built the Takaoka Factory.

Jul, 1965

Made the Takaoka Factory the headquarters factory.

Headquarters factory (1965)

Jan, 1968

Changed the company name to Kaneta Kogyo Co., Ltd.

May, 1968

Entered the machine tools field. Began manufacturing lathes.

Unique copying lathe with autoloader (1968)

Sep, 1969

Built the Hamamatsu Sales Office in Funakoshi, Hamamatsu (at the time).

Hamamatsu Sales Office at the time (1969)

Oct, 1972

Established Kaneta Yakin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Feb, 1974

Increased capital to ¥45,000,000.

Feb, 1985

Completed first phase of construction of Inasa Factory.

Inasa Factory

Jan, 1989

Completed final construction of Inasa Factory.

Dec, 1993

Completed construction and transition to the Kaneta Yakin Kogyo Co., Ltd. Inasa Factory.

Kaneta Yakin Kogyo Inasa Factory (Now the Heat Treatment Factory)

Jan, 1995

Completed second factory construction of the headquarters.

Aug, 1995

Established BUCYRUS PRECISION TECH, INC. in the USA.

BUCYRUS PRECISION TECH, INC.

Jan, 1999

Acquired ISO9001 certification.

Feb, 2001

Acquired ISO14001 certification.

Nov, 2001

Established PT. KANETA INDNESIA in the Indonesia.

PT. KANETA INDNESIA

Mar, 2002

Completed third factory construction of the headquarters.

Jun, 2007

Established Kaneta Kogyo (Foshan) Co., Ltd. in China (Located in Danzao Town, Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province)

Kaneta Kogyo (Foshan) Co., Ltd.

Apr, 2016

Merged with Kaneta Yakin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Access

Access to the headquarters factory
By public transportation From the JR Hamamatsu Station North Gate Bus Terminal #14 Bus Stop take the bus bound for “51 Seirei Hamamatsu Izumi Takaoka”, get off at the stop “Kaneta Kogyo” (Approximately 30 minutes)
By car
Approximately 8 minutes from Tomei Expressway Hamamatsu Nishi IC (Approximately 4 km)
Approximately 30 minutes from JR Hamamatsu Station on National Route 152 and National Route 257 (Hime Kaido) (Approximately 8 km)