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Company Information & History
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Company Information
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History
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Organization Chart
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Directors and Officers
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Corporate Mark
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Corporate Color
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Company Information Brochure
History
1959
August
Start of the previous government office of Takatsuki Town located at Takatsuki-cho 8.
1961
May
Move to a new fascility at the current place.
1972
August
Transfer of a new office to the administrative department there.
1974
August
Start of a new manufacturing fascility for lead terminals.
1982
March
Completed the full automatic lead terminal degassing equipment.
April
Subsidization to improve technologies for regional industry from Shiga Prefecture.
April
Completed the full automatic lead terminal cleaning equipment.
1987
September
Development of lead terminal manufacturing machine NTWM.
December
Establishment of a subsidiary KOHOKU ELECTRONICS (S) PTE. LTD. in Singapore.
1988
December
Award for the Excellent Energy Conservation Business
from the Osaka Regional Bureaus of international Trade and Industry.
1991
July
Completion of the building for administrative services
and R&D at the Headquarters.
1994
September
Establishment of subsidiary KOHOKU ELECTRONICS (M) SDN. BHD. in Malaysia.
1997
November
ISO 9001 certification.
1998
May
Completion of the extension at the Headquarters’ fascility.
2000
September
Start of Optical Business Division.
December
Establishment of a contract manufacturing factory,
Kohoku Electronics (CD) (current DONGGANG KOHOKU ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
in Dongguan, China.
2002
June
Establishment a subsidiary SUZHOU KOHOKU OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
in Suzhou, China.
2005
August
ISO 14001 certification.
2006
March
Award from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
as one of the 1st 300 strongest small-medium sized enterprises.
2012
October
Reorganization of Kohoku Electronics (CD) into an independent corporation,
leads to a subsidiary company DONGGUAN KOHOKU ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
2013
April
Award from the Prize of Small and Medium Enterprise Agency’s Director
for “The 25th Awards for Excellent New Technologies and Products by Small and Medium Enterprises”
by Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.
2015
February
Acquisition of with the optical component business of FDK Corporation
and its subsidiary company FDK LANKA (PVT) LTD. (current KOHOKU LANKA (PVT) LTD.).
June
Capital increase to 350 million yen.
Novebmer
ISO/TS16949 (current IATF 16949) certification.
2016
March
Award for the award in the low-carbon business category
of the Award for low-carbon society creation in Shiga Prefecture.
2017
December
Award for the award from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry,
being selected as “The Driving Company for the regional future”.
2020
June
Award for the award from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry,
being selected as “100 Top Global Niche Companies”.
2021
December
Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (the current Standard market).
2024
April
Acquired shares of EpiPhotonics CO., LTD. and its subsidiary EpiPhotonics USA, Inc.,
which have optical switch and wavelength selective switch technologies based on
PLZT (lead lanthanum zirconium titanate) thin film formation technology, and made them wholly owned subsidiaries.
Organization Chart
Directors and Officers
| Position | Name | Responsibility / Remarks |
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| President & CEO | Futoshi Ishii | CEO |
| Senior Executive Director & Assistant CEO | Kazukiyo Kitagawa | SG Business Promotion, Global Sales Enhancement |
| Director & CFO | Seiji Nakamura | Accounting and Finance, General Affairs, Investor Relations & Public Relations |
| Director | Shoko Sawaki | Outside Director |
| Director | Masayuki Arai | Outside Director |
| Director | Dieter Sommerhalder | Outside Director |
| Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee) | Yutaka Kuriyama | Outside Director, Member of the Audit & Supervisory Committee |
| Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee) | Masaya Nakamura | Outside Director, Member of the Audit & Supervisory Committee |
| Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee) | Yasushi Kozu | Outside Director, Member of the Audit & Supervisory Committee |
| Managing Corporate Officer | Manabu Yamazaki | General Manager, Lead Terminals Division |
| Managing Corporate Officer | Takashi Kato | General Manager, Optical Components & Devices Division |
| Corporate Officer | Yukito Sugiyama | General Manager, SG Business Promotion |
| Corporate Officer | Manabu Kakida | Managing Director, KOHOKU LANKA (PVT) LTD. |
| Corporate Officer | Haruhito Araki | Deputy General Manager, Lead Terminals Division |
| Corporate Officer | Masanori Seto | Deputy General Manager, Optical Components & Devices Division |
| Corporate Officer | Kohei Nozato | General Manager, Investor Relations & Public Relations Department |
| Corporate Officer | Toshihiro Tanaka | General Manager, Accounting and Finance Department |
| Corporate Officer | Kosuke Nakanishi | General Manager, General Affairs Department |
Corporate Mark
Corporate Color
KOHOKU
Blue 1
Blue 1
KOHOKU
Blue 2
Blue 2
KOHOKU
Blue 3
Blue 3
KOHOKU
Black
Black
The corporate color of Kohoku Kogyo is a combination of three kinds of blue, deep blue named as “KOHOKU Blue 1”, the main color, which symbolizes “reliability”, bright blue named as “KOHOKU Blue 2” showing the image of the place of foundation, Lake Biwa, and “KOHOKU Blue 3” which represents the fresh sky.
“Ultra-marine blue” is used as “KOHOKU Blue 1”, which is very special among blue colors that represent “honesty” and “reliance” in terms of color psychology.
This color is also called Vermeer blue because it was used in great painter Vermeer’s immortal work “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” There is no other blue with such a deep tone. It represent Kohoku Kogyo’s corporate philosophy “Creation of unique values”.
Company Information Brochure
Information Brochure of Kohoku Kogyo (PDF)
The corporate mark of Kohoku Kogyo was designed from the initial letter of the company name “K” and the diamond shape is associated with the “parallel crosses” of the old company mark, indicating the attitude of inheriting the corporate philosophy since the time of foundation eternally. The diamond shape also suggests all directions and symbolize a company that expands from the north of Lake Biwa to the world. The four sides of diamond shape also represent new four corporate slogans “consiotency, reliable, state-of the-art, and international.”
The three lines laid out in the diamond shape simply express “K,” the initial letter of the company name, which represents not only niche (= gap) but also three management philosophies “all-type management respecting rich originalities,” “creation of new values,” and “aiming for an only-one company.” The lines which extend from the center to the outside are designed to indicate the images of the development to the world and the persistence of Kohoku Kogyo.