KONNO CORPORATION

Corporate Message

We have the strength to unite individual forces.

We at Konno Corporation consider the concept of "team" important.
"Team" represents the state of "working together with others". In other words, it represents the state of "not working alone".
It means multiple persons cooperate with each other to work on and achieve one same goal.
Uniting individual forces is not so easy to do. It requires some ability to help each other and to share mutual wisdom,
while it requires some coordinators and members to act as lubricant in order to make the team exhibit better performance.
Only when self-sufficing individuals with "the strength to unite their forces" work together,
"team force" that is greater than the summation of individual strength is materialized.
We at Konno Corporation aim at maximizing our performance by making the joy of caring the team spirit, helping other people and supporting people to help themselves as the source of force, and by uniting the force of both internal and external members, who share the same spirit.

Management Philosophy

Contribution to the society
We advance our operations for our customers by staring at the society
where the customers belong from the best total balance point of view.
We deeply and thoroughly consider what manufacturing should be and contribute to the society through manufacturing.
Explore opportunities out of changes
We consider changes of time as chance, and work on such changes.
We step forward with courage, diligently work on changes and aim at becoming a frontier to create a new value.
Autonomy and Growth
Growth of an organization (team) is sustained by individual growth of its members.
We urge our people to grow to be truly autonomous individuals by brushing up knowledge,
skill and human power to be real professional.
Collaboration
We enlarge our business possibility and nurture flexible corporate culture through collaboration.
We strengthen ourselves together with others by opening our minds toward outside,
connecting ourselves to various fields and regions and sharing the values.
Management through team
We consolidate all our forces into a team to generate synergy there.
We form an organization with the spirit of respecting each other, sharing mutual wisdom,
enhancing our vision together and open-minded with each other.

Corporate Information

Name of the company

KONNO　CORPORATION

President
and CEO

Hiroyoshi Konno

Year of foundation

April 1961

Year of incorporation

October 1969

Paid in
capital

Yen 30,200,000

Details
of our
businesses

Hydraulic Equipment Business

Design and manufacture EAGLE toe-jack and related hydraulic equipment.
We are "the best partner to improve lifting, moving and position-adjustment" of heavy and expensive loads.

Sheet Metal Processing Business

Process and provide stainless devices and fixtures to be used in clean environments on an order-made service basis. We are the best partner to productize R&D equipment and devices.

Engineering & Service Business

Individually manufacture special devices and jigs to be used for R&D in the various fields (laboratory, engineering, ocean development, agriculture, welfare and so forth) .

Welfare Equipment Business

Develop, manufacture and sell welfare equipment etc.

Business Locations

Headquarters/
Tokyo Plant

1-22-4 Ohgi, Adachi-ku, Tokyo 123-0873, Japan

Osaka Sales Office

3-4-17 Nagata, Joto-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 536-0022, Japan

Fukushima Plant

154-5 Aza Kitahara, Oaza Fukuda, Shinchi-cho, Soma-gun, Fukushima Prefecture 979-2708, Japan

Corporate Officers

President and CEO
Managing Officer

Managing Officer

Hiroyoshi KONNO
Kazuhiro SHIRASU (Managing officer in charge of Engineering and Production )
Michiyo KONNO ( Managing officer in charge of General Affairs )

Number of Employees

36 as of January 2017

Corporate History

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The First Period

In 1961
Mr. Yoshimi Konno, the founder and the first president started his business in Kita-ku, Tokyo as an individual business owner. He was engaged in manufacturing devices for medical, physical and chemical requirements.
He and his wife were the only employees at that time.
In 1969
Konno Corporation was established as Limited Liability Company.

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1970〜75
It expanded its business for stainless sheet metal processing by introducing sheet metal facilities on a step by step basis.
It began repair business for carrying equipment.
It began the development of hydraulic toe-jack. It acquired six Utility Models and two Registrations of Design related to the toe-jack.
EAGLE jacks were given birth through the collaboration with their users and a large hydraulic jack manufacturer.EAGLE jacks were given birth through the collaboration with their users and a large hydraulic jack manufacturer.
In 1976
It began to sell EAGLE marked toe-jacks.
In 1980
It received an order for the enclosure of physical and chemical equipment and experimental devices.
It enlarged its business in a favorable pace by receiving the contract to produce muffler etc. for special vehicle.The company explored the possibility of the mass production of its sheet metal processing.
In 1981
The company changed its registration to Joint Stock Company.
It established its Fukushima Plant in Soma-gun of Fukushima Prefecture, dedicated for its toe-jack production, and began its operation.

The Second Period

1984～1990
The company expanded the EAGLE lineups by developing the derivative products of its hydraulic jacks and of heavy machinery moving equipment so as to meet the users' demand voices.
In 1995
Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake occurred.
Our toe-jacks were recognized as disaster relief equipment through the rescue and restoration operations of this disaster. After the disaster, the Tokyo Fire Department purchased 1,000 of our toe-jacks and since then, those jacks were adopted as a sort of standard disaster relief equipment by prefectural governments, firefighting departments and the Self Defense Forces.
1996〜1998
The company made it clear to shift the operational direction of its Sheet Metal Division from mass production oriented to single custom-made oriented, and began to work on the succession of its craftsmen's technology and skill.
In 1999
Its Fukushima Plant achieved a small lot production system as the result of its first production innovation activity.
This production system enabled the plant to produce its products for the quantity that its customers just need no matter how small it is and to deliver them on a timely manner, namely the "small production lot", "many types of products", and "short lead time" production was explored in this period.

The Third Period

In 2001
The new company logo was defined. And the catchphrase "Shape the wants" was newly released.
In 2002
The IT infrastructure was established to connect the Tokyo, Fukushima and Osaka operations. By introducing a groupware to share information internally, the intra-business collaboration was strengthened.
In 2003
The company's product design capability was strengthened by the introduction of the 3D CAD Solidworks and by utilizing the structure analytical software.

The founder Mr. Yoshimi Konno assumed the corporate chairman's position and Mr. Hiroyoshi Konno succeeded his position as the second president.
In 2004
The 2nd production innovation activity started.

The EAGLE brand logo design was renewed.
In 2005
The company started the development of the detachable and manual driving control device "SWORD" in collaboration with a welfare equipment planning and sales company.
In 2006
The company dispatched its young employees to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government sponsored master-hand cram school. It built several personal systems to grow human resources.

It increased its paid-in capital to Yen 30,200,000 by getting an investment from Tokyo Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation Corporation.
In 2007
The company conducted "Training to strengthen manufacturing strength" by utilizing the order-made training system of Tokyo Metropolitan Small and Medium Enterprise Support Center.
In 2008
The new Fukushima Plant was built.
The Eagle Technical Center (Hydraulic Jack Laboratory) was established.
In this year, the strong headwind so-called "Lehman Shock" blew in Japan and the company suffered from the large decrease of orders. President Konno declared "We should overcome it with the united forces of all of us", and instead of laying off any employees, the company focused on Kaizen activity, employees training and R&D by using the time left due to the business shrinkage.
In 2009
The company began to sell the detachable and manual driving control device (SWORD）.
In 2010
The company began "Business Process Visualization Project" by incorporating the business process reengineering method that uses the business process reference model. Simultaneously, it worked on "IT Kaizen Activity" by receiving cooperation from Hosei University's Design Engineering Department.
In 2011
The Great East Japan Earthquake Afflicted the Fukushima Plant
The Fukushima factory located in Shinchi Town, Fukushima Prefecture, was struck by the huge diseaster. While the coastal area of the town was hit by the tremendous damage caused by the tsunami and there was worry about the impact of the nuclear accident, our employees worked together recovery. We resumed operation in two weeks and tried to supply the jacks highly required from the disaster-stricken area .

The Fourth Period

In 2015
The company internally developed the new production management and price estimate management system for its Sheet Metal Business and started its operation.
In 2016
President Konno assumed Director of General Incorporated Association Industrial Value-chain Initiative.

The company was awarded JICA's SME ODA project feasibility study contract.

Corporates alliance "Tokyo Backstreet Factories Manufacturing Network" project started.

History of awards

History of awards