“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.




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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.
Head Office
Factory Capital

Headquarters and Plant
2045 Shindachiichiba, Sennan-shi, Osaka-fu, 590-0504
Tel: +81-72-483-5555 Fax: +81-72-482-1133

Daisen Plan
802 Tokorogo Oshinaramichi, Daisen-cho, Saihaku-gun, Tottori-ken, 689-3303
Tel: +81-859-53-4565 Fax: +81-859-53-4575

Osaka Office
303 Higashi Honmachi Center Bldg. 1-4-3 Tokiwamachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu, 540-0028
Tel: +81-6-6944-2290 Fax: +81-6-6941-8714

Tokyo Office
3F Katagi Bldg. 1-1-5 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0034
Tel: +81-3-5289-7570 Fax: +81-3-5289-7571

Nagoya Office
3F Marunishi Bldg. 3-22-14 Nishiki, Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, 460-0003
Tel: +81-52-954-1655 Fax: +81-52-954-1656

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


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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.
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).
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.
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.


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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)
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)
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


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