“INFINITY” Calligraphy by TOSHIO KATAGI
SEEKING FOR “INFINITE CAPABILITY”
Capability of Material: Aluminum and Its Rolled Products
The founder,Toshio Katagi, noticed the infinite capability of duralumin used in fighter air craft during the Second World War and founded Katagi Aluminum Products Ltd. In 1951. The company produced only household utensils at first, and then by introducing a hot rolling, slitting, to shearing in 1964, began
To produce coil, sheet and circle, thus establishing itself as an aluminum rollig maker. It has two production footholds, the Head Office and Factory in Sennan, Osaka and Daisen Factory in Daisen, Tottori,which succeeded in producing rolled stock by
A continuous horizontal casting and cold rolling line on commercial basis and now producing a thinsheet below 0.2mm, which can be produced only in big enterprises. The company, even though not a big enterprise, can manage short
Time of delivery and small lot to fully respond various requests
Of clients and its products range widely from electronic device, transformer winding, wire covering, heat radiating fin used in automobile radiator grill and air conditioner ,top plate of cooking stove and inner lid of rice cooker.
From the beginning, the company has exported aluminum rolling plants and licensed the technology of aluminum rolling to Myanmar, Thailand, South Korea, Indnesia, and China, to contribute the development of aluminum rolling industry in Asia
Capability of Technology: Challenge to the Challenge to Technology
The challenge to technology developed in the plant exports can be seen in out recent new products and technologies. For example, OK Sheet(an entry sheet to electronic substrate) has received the Development Award of the Chugoku Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Manufacturing Japan
Grand Prix(2013), and Automatic Correction Device of End Surface of Alluminum Coil also received the
Excellence Award, the Small and Medium-sized Enteprises Excellent Technologies and Products Exellence Award(2017). Seeking the infinite capability of material and technology in concert with the seeds and needs of the era is our company’s founding spirit and management philosophy towards the 21th century. Let’s restate it by borrowing an aphorism ‘We don’t seek the things, but seek to seek the
things.’ by a French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
We don’t Challenge to technology, but challenge to the challenge to technology.
Company Profile
| Established | July 1948 as a private enterprise by Mr. Toshio Katagi in the name of Katagi Aluminum Factory. And started manufacturing Aluminum Household Utensils. |
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| Head Office Factory Capital |
Headquarters and Plant |
| Capital | 240,000,000 JPY in authorized capital 60,000,000 JPY in paid capital |
| Description of Business | Rolled aluminum products (cornered plates, rounded plates and coils) Export of aluminum rolling plants and related equipment |
| Officers | Representative Director and CEO Takeshi Katagi and 3 others |
History
| 1948 | During WWII, our founder, Toshio Katagi, came to realize that duralumin, which was used in fighter aircraft, possessed unlimited potential, and he established Katagi Aluminum Plant, Ltd. following the war in 1951. |
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| 1953 | Reorganized as a stock company with 5,000,000 JPY (capital). Since its foundation, the company has contributed to the development of the aluminum rolling industry in Asia by promoting provision of technology and export of aluminum rolling plants to Myanmar, Thailand, Korea, Indonesia, China, etc. |
| 1959 | Installed water-cooled continuous casting equipment and installed more 3-high hot rolling mills |
| 1960 | Installed more 4-high cold reversing mills. |
| 1962 | Increased stock capital to 15,000,000 JPY (capital). Installed more skin-pass rolling mills and flying shear equipment. Installed more large slitters and automatic control equipment. |
| 1964 | Constructed hot rolling plant and installed 2-high hot reversing mills. |
| 1966 | Installed new aluminum smelting and casting plant. Installed water-cooled slub casting equipment. |
| 1967 | Installed more our own designed 4-high rolling mills (Rolling manufacturer's infrastructure is in place) |
| 1971 | Increased stock capital to 60,000,000 JPY (capital). |
| 1976 | Installed more High Crown 6-high cold reversing mills. |
| 1979 | Installed more 4-high tandem cold reversing mills. |
| 1981 | 10-ton and 4-ton capacity annealing furnaces. |
| 1986 | Constructed Daisen Plant. |
| 1987 | Cooperated in subsidized project for Industrial relocation promotion for the “Daisen-cho Budokan,” the Daisen Junior High School kendo practice hall. |
| 1988 | Daisen Plant: Newly installed KD high-speed 6-high cold rolling mills. |
| 1991 | Daisen Plant: Newly installed aluminum sheet surface treatment equipment. Opened “Yubien,” a nature park on the plant premises. |
| 1998 | Daisen Plant: Newly installed a slitter line. |
| 2000 | Headquarters Plant: Replaced No.1 slitter line. |
| 2001 | Headquarters Plant: Installed a city-gas regenerative type melting furnace Reduced fuel usage by 25% by switching melting, holding, reheating and annealing furnaces to natural gas fuel. |
| 2002 | Headquarters Plant: Replaced tension leveler. |
| 2003 | Daisen Plant: Installed regenerative burner in annealing furnace. |
| 2005 | Headquarters Plant: Replaced No. 2 slitter line. |
| 2006 | Headquarters Plant: Replaced hot rolling mills. |
| 2008 | Headquarters Plant: Newly installed FD shear line. |
| 2011 | Daisen Plant: Newly installed slitter line. |
| 2015 | Daisen Plant: Newly installed solar generator (800Kw). |
| 2016 | Headquarters Plant: Converted all light fixtures to LED. Headquarters Plant: Newly installed a degreasing line (2015 Manufacturing Subsidy Project). |
| 2017 | Headquarters Plant: Converted 4-high cold rolling mills to auto-control. Daisen Plant: Converted all light fixtures to LED. |
Challenge to technology
| 1952 | Exported a plant to KHITTAYA WORKS (YANGON, MYANMAR). |
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| 1957 | Exported a plant to VAROPAKORN PUBLIC CO,LTD (BANGKOK, THAILAND). |
| 1972 | Exported a plant to CHOIL ALUMINUM MFG CO,LTD (DAEGU, KOREA). |
| 1975 | Exported a plant to P.T. ALUMINUM WORKS (JAKARTA, INDONESIA). |
| 1978 | Exported a plant to TONG HORNG METAL INDUSTRIAL CO,LTD (TAINAN, TAIWAN). |
| 1981 | 10-ton and 4-ton annealing furnaces Exported a plant to CHINA EXCELSIOR ALUMINUM FACTORY LTD (SHEKOU,GUANGDONG, P.R.C). |
| 1984 | Exported a plant to HTS TECHNOLOGY CO,LTD (TAIPEI, TAIWAN). |
| 1987 | Exported a plant to CHONGQING ALUMINUM PRODUCT FACTORY (CHONGQING, SICHUAN, P.R.C). |
Prizes and Awards
| 1999 | Headquarters Plant: Won the “Occupational Safety Award” for special excellence. |
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| 2000 | Headquarters Plant: Won the Japan Aluminum Association’s Prize for Excellence. |
| 2004 | Daisen Plant: Won the “Occupational Safety Award” for special excellence 12 years in a row by 2015. |
| 2005 | Prime Minister’s Award for Contribution to the Green Campaign |
| 2006 | Headquarters: Won the Osaka Prefectural Hazardous Material Safety Association Prize Won the Japan Aluminum Association’s Prize for Excellence (two years in a row). |
| 2008 | Headquarters Plant: Won the “Occupational Safety Award” for special excellence eight years in a row by 2015. |
| 2010 | Daisen Plant: Won the “Occupational Safety Award” for special excellence four years in a row by 2013. |
| 2011 | Our “OK Sheets (electronic substrate entry sheets)” won the Japan Aluminum Association’s Prize for Development Encouragement. |
| 2013 | Won the Chugoku Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry Chief’s “Monozukuri Nippon Grand Prize.” |
| 2014 | Daisen Plant: Won the “Occupational Safety Award” for special excellence four years in a row by 2016. Awarded the Encouragement Prize for Community Building by Senshu Ikeda Bank. |
| 2015 | Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Award |
| 2017 | Our “aluminum coil product end face automatic correction machine” won the “Small and Mid-sized Enterprise Award for Excellence in New Technologies and New Products.” Daisen Plant: Won the “Occupational Safety Award” for special excellence. |
| 2018 | Chosen for Kiyo Bank’s “Kiyo Innovation Support Program.” Osaka Prefectural Business Innovation Company. |
Facilities
Headquarters and Plant
- 2045 Shindachiichiba, Sennan-shi, Osaka-fu, 590-0504
Tel: +81-72-483-5555
Fax: +81-72-482-1133
- Building: Steel structure, single-story construction (partially two-story), 10,000㎡
| 1 natural-gas, regenerative-burner type annealing furnace (17t) |
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| 1 HC high-speed cold rolling mill (6-high) |
| 1 natural-gas, regenerative-burner type molten metal holding furnace (17t) |
| 1 tension leveler |
| 1 semi-continuous casting machine |
| 2 shearing lines |
| 1 double-sided surface grinder |
| 2 slitter lines |
| 1 slab reheating furnace (20t) |
| 3 pressing lines |
| 2 high hot reversing mill |
| 3 annealing furnaces (natural gas) |
| 1 tandem cold reversing mill (4-high) |
| 1 set of various types of testing and analysis equipment |
| 4 high cold reversing mill |
| 1 degreasing line |
| 2 roll grinding machine |
Daisen Plant
- 802 Tokorogo Oshinaramichi, Daisen-cho, Saihaku-gun, Tottori-ken, 689-3303
Tel: +81-859-53-4565
Fax: +81-859-53-4575 - Building: Steel structure, single-story construction, 15,000㎡
| 2 fuel oil, regenerative-burner type melting and holding furmaces (23t) |
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| 5 annealing furnaces (electric) |
| 1 low-frequency melting furnace (0.8t) |
| 1 water-soluble coating line |
| 2 continuous casting equipment |
| 1 alkali degreasing line |
| 1 KD 6-high cold reversing mill |
| 1 pressing line |
| 1 tension leveller line |
| 2 roll grinding machine |
| 1 fine dram shear line |
| 1 roll lathing machine |
| 4 slitter lines |
| 1 set of various types of testing and analysis equipment |