About us
KYOWA strives to maintain the trust of customers by delivering superb value that meets their expectations.
GREETING
As a manufacturer of cutting tools and wrist watches, Kyowa Co., Ltd. has developed its business and refined its technologies with the support and advice of many customers.
Based on the technology and development power built since the corporation’s foundation, we will continue to work under the motto of promptly providing customers with reliable and satisfactory products and services.
We have been engaged in the manufacture of cutting tools and wrist watches, two different yet closely related businesses.
Based on the two businesses, we will continue to produce unparalleled unique products.
In addition to the technological and development capabilities built up so far, we will improve our creativity and ingenuity in order to provide customers with even better products.
We would greatly appreciate your further support.
Tsuyoshi Suzuki, President
Company policy
Humanity:
Become a person rich in humanity.
Creativity:
Motivate yourself to come up with ideas.
Internationality:
Learn world-competitive knowledge and technology.
Core values of KYOWA.
COMPANY PROFILE
Kyowa Co., Ltd.
Established
August 1963
CEO
Tsuyoshi Suzuki, President
Board members
Makoto Watanabe, Managing Director
Adviser
Koichi Suzuki, Senior Adviser
Capita
10 million yen
Location
Headquarters: 34-1 Mitsumori, Hayashizaki, Ugo, Ogachi, Akita, 012-1103 Japan
Employees
80
Business content
Manufacturing and sales of precision edged tools, and manufacturing and sales of wrist watches
Customer industries
Dies/molds, automobiles, electrical/electronics, jewelry, watches, etc.
ACCESS MAP
Headquarters
Cutting tool manufacturing plant
34-1, Aza Mitsumori, Hayashizaki, Ugo-machi Ogachi-gun, Akita, 012-1103, Japan
TEL. +81-183-62-4566 FAX. +81-183-62-2030
MINASE Factory
Watch manufacturing plant
3, Aza Kamikobonai, Minase, Yuzawa-shi, Akita, 012-0183, Japan
TEL. +81-183-46-2126 FAX. +81-183-46-2800
Kashiwa office
Sales office
6F, 4-5-10, Kashiwa, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-0005, Japan
TEL. +81-4-7186-6071 FAX. +81-4-7147-7772
OUR HISTORY
August 1963
Kyowa Seiko founded (in Edogawa-ku, Tokyo).
Started manufacturing and selling machine parts, jigs, and tools.
December 1964
Successfully developed step drills for machining watch cases.
Received high market ratings for this innovative technology development that transformed the watch industry.
December 1967
Corporate office relocated to Kashiwa-shi, Chiba.
(Started full-scale mass production of cutting tools.)
Company name changed to Yugengaisha Kyowa Seiko.
January 1973
Yuzawa Factory newly built.
Started fabricating watch exteriors.
October 1977
Became a joint-stock company.
September 1983
Ugo Factory construction completed.
March 1988
Subsidiary Poria Precision Co., Ltd. (currently the Minase Factory) established.
Started manufacturing and selling premium watch cases and watches.
December 1990
Successfully developed carbide ball end mills.
Established production operation and started full-scale sales.
July 1993
Head office relocated to the Ugo Factory premises (the Kashiwa head office and the Yuzawa Factory integrated into the Ugo Factory).
Merged with Poria Precision Co., Ltd. and reorganized into the Minase Factory.
April 2000
ISO9002 certification obtained.
December 2000
Started selling end mills under own brand of KYOWA.
July 2002
Developed the first 0.1-mm cBN end mills in Japan.
Started marketing them successfully as the ATTACKSMITH product series.
January 2003
Switched to ISO9001: 2000.
October 2003
Successfully developed small-diameter end mills that are polished with the AC-electric-field-assisted polishing control technique.
April 2006
Selected as one of the 300 High-Spirited Small and Medium-Sized Monodzukuri (Manufacturing) Enterprises to Support Japan’s Future.
August 2007
Received the Tohoku Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Director-General ’s Award at the Monodzukuri Nippon Grand Awards.
November 2008
KYOWA’s cBN spiral end mills won the Machine Parts Award at the Superb-Monodzukuri Parts Grand Awards.
October 2009
KYOWA’s patented electro-abrasive polishing technique won the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency Commissioner’s Encouragement Award.
March 2011
Started marketing MINASE brand watches nationwide.
June 2011
ISO14001 certification obtained.
August 2013
50th anniversary of KYOWA’s foundation.
June 2014
Tsuyoshi Suzuki appointed as President and Representative Director (Koichi Suzuki appointed as Senior Adviser ).
December 2015
Kashiwa Office set up in Chiba as the permanent base of the after-sales watch service department.
August 2021
Kashiwa Office (Minami-Kashiwa, Kashiwa-shi) moved to the current location (Kashiwa, Kashiwa-shi).
MINASE - 秋田発国産ハンドメイド腕時計
2005年に立ち上がった自社ブランド時計「MINASE」。
ケースメーカー時代から培ってきた切削技術と研磨技術を活かした
デザインが特徴的です。
職人が1本1本丁寧にハンドメイドする
メイド・イン・秋田の時計をぜひご覧ください。
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