Our company was spun off in 1975 as a fully independent subsidiary of Okamoto Machine Tool Works. Today, we are still making machine tools as a part of our business, but Okamoto Machinery is really known now as “the gear-making company.”

Our company is a small- and medium-lot producer rather than a high-volume manufacturer, and we can make a large variety of products in lots ranging from a single item to tens of thousands. It was our overseas strategy to differentiate our products in a globalized market that led us to form Okamoto’s first subsidiary in China.

It was thus five years ago that we established the idea that we would "target the world, go where our users are!" for our gear-producing business. Our Chinese factory, just like our home factory, can make products one-by-one from raw materials and is not just an assembly plant.
The factory has developed in a satisfactory manner, recouping its costs after three-and-a-half years. We were correct in our judgment to build the Chinese factory five years ago. I think that to do so today would be difficult. We’ve been able, now and then, to see how the times were changing and make adjustments accordingly. We’ve enjoyed a long history based on that premise, during which we’ve improved our technology and put our international strategy into action. Now that we’ve expanded, we plan to do our best to make our presence permanent.

　President

　Masato Kikuchi