Media Coverage
Refining Technical Strengths - More than 100 Patents
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| Featured in The Chugoku Shimbun newspaper (Hiroshima area) issued on Wednesday,
Sep. 30, 2020 |
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The Chugoku Shimbun
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"Image of new regional business cluster"
Yokota Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Naka-ku, Hiroshima City)
Refining Technical Strengths - More than 100 Patents
Over the more than 70 years since it was founded, Yokota Manufacturing
has focused its strength on manufacturing of industrial pumps and valves.
The number of patents acquired by the company is more than 100. Proclaiming
itself to be a "Water Solutions Company", it is responsible for
integrated production that covers all steps from casting to assembly and
shipping based on customer input. It is dedicated to digging deep into
"niche" fields and improving its technical capabilities.
The company works with its own original type of stainless steel that is
resistant to corrosion and wear. Its products are used in a wide range
of facilities including aquariums, power plants, and steel works. President
Yoshiyuki Yokota (50) states proudly, "Our many years of trust and
successful results have delivered stable profits for our company".
Using the technologies it had cultivated, in 2002 the company developed
a defoaming and degassing pump which prevents oxidation and corrosion by
using the rotation of impeller inside the pump to remove gas trapped in
a fluid. In 2016, it released an improved version which maintained the
same performance but operated at a slower speed to reduce the rise in fluid
temperature. President Yokota declared his intention to "make improvements
based on customer requests and further open up the market".
In order to expand its list of customers, in recent years the company has
focused on exhibiting at exhibitions. Last year, it developed for demonstrations
a defoaming and degassing pump that was half the size of previous pumps.
Visitors to the events could see for themselves how the bubbles in the
fluid disappeared, with many saying they wanted to try it themselves.
As the coronavirus pandemic has made face-to-face interactions difficult,
the company has tried conducting product tests remotely using video. It
also sends pumps to companies that are considering using them, and receives
fluids shipped from potential customers in order to perform online checks
of the effects and compatibility.
A generational handover is also underway. During the past five years, many
employees reached retirement age, including some who were hired for reemployment.
During this period, the company hired 35 new employees, most of whom are
in their 20s, bringing the average age at the company down by 6.2 years.
President Yokota said of this, "We want to ensure that our technologies
are handed down while also raising the level of our original technologies".
(Article by Junya Kuchimoto)
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Yokota Manufacturing employee checking an assembled pump
<Company profile>
Founded in 1948, the company is headquartered in Minami Yoshijima, Naka-ku,
Hiroshima City. The headquarters is the site of a plant as well as the
company's Hiroshima Branch. A branch has also been established in Tokyo.
As of March 2020, the number of employees was 90, and sales for the fiscal
year ended March 31, 2020 were 1.733 billion yen. |
For details of this product, please refer to Defoaming, Degassing Pump DP, ASP type.
This defoaming and degassing technology has been introduced also in many
other media.
Please refer to "Current Topics: Defoaming, Degassing". |
