Company Profile and History
Company Profile and History
Company Profile
| Company name | Hidaka Engineering Company |
| Establishment | April 1, 1947 |
| Capital | 250,800,000 yen |
| Representatives | Keiji Murayama, Representative Director and Chairman Masami Koyama, President |
| Number of Employees | 120 |
| Location |
Head Office & FactoryHidaka Engineering Company812-11 Shimonogo, Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture 386-1211, Japan (in Ueda Research Park) Overseas
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History
| 1947 | Founded Hidaka Seisakusho in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. |
| 1961 | Founded Hidaka Seiki Co., Ltd. (capital: 1 million yen). |
| 1969 | Commenced development of fin dies and fin lines. |
| 1971 | Commercialized Fin Press FIX-18 (50 tons). |
| 1972 | Capital increased to 20 million yen. |
| 1975 | Established the Nagano Factory in Ueda City, Nagano, to handle larger orders and develop new products. |
| Capital increased to 50 million yen. | |
| 1976 | Succeeded in developing Drawless Fin Die H19 using the ironing process. |
| US patent registration (1978) and Japan patent registration (1980) | |
| Commercialized Fin Press FP-36 (60 tons). | |
| 1979 | Developed a high fin die with a color height of 12 mm for refrigerators. |
| 1981 | Delivered automotive tube sheet transfer dies. |
| Commercialized Fin Press FIX-12 (45 tons) and FIX-36 (60 tons). | |
| 1983 | Exported casing transfer dies for rotary compressors to the Soviet Union. |
| 1985 | Expanded the Nagano Factory, including a dedicated fin die trial factory and welfare facilities. |
| Additionally constructed an employee welfare building, factory building, and precision component machining building over two phases. | |
| 1986 | Started exporting fin lines for automotive air conditioner condensers to U.S. automakers. |
| 1988 | Additionally constructed an ultra-precision component factory within the Nagano Factory. |
| Developed automotive inner fin dies. | |
| 1989 | Completed construction of a large, state-of-the-art MC constant-temperature, constant-humidity factory to handle increasingly large orders. |
| Introduced SIP jig borer. | |
| 1990 | Developed automatic assembly systems such as hairpin insertion machines and expanders. |
| Fully implemented a CAD-CAM system to support the transition to CIM production. | |
| Capital increased to 72 million yen. | |
| 1991 | Completed construction of the Technical Center, equipped with a constant temperature and humidity environment for high-precision machining, within the Nagano Factory. |
| Installed a large high-precision processing machine in the Technical Center | |
| Introduced a state-of-the-art mechanical CAD system for advanced system development. | |
| Developed and commercialized a fully automated fin coil assembly system and delivered it to a major home appliance manufacturer. | |
| Commercialized Fin Press FIX-36A (80 tons). | |
| 1992 | Developed and commercialized a DOF-type fin die (CFC-free die). |
| Registered a patent for the taper ironing method. | |
| 1994 | Developed and commercialized a high-speed remote cutoff system. |
| 1996 | Developed and commercialized an oval fin manufacturing system for automobile radiators. |
| Registered a patent for the flare fixed-point method. | |
| 1997 | Completed construction of the Hidaka Seiki Shioda R&D Center in Ueda Research Park as the first phase of a total relocation. |
| Delivered tube progressive dies for automotive heater cores. | |
| Capital increased to 100.8 million yen. | |
| 2001 | Established Hidaka Engineering (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. in Shanghai, China, as a wholly owned (solely owned) service and maintenance company. |
| Developed stainless steel (SUS) fin dies. | |
| Commercialized Fin Press FIX-100 (100 tons) in response to the trend toward larger dies. | |
| 2002 | Developed and commercialized Combination (CB-Type) Fin Die for thinner aluminum materials. |
| Acquired ISO 9001:2000 certification, the international standard for quality management systems. | |
| Commercialized Fin Press FIX-80 (80 tons) as the successor to FIX-36A. | |
| Commercialized Fin Press FIX-60 (60 tons) as the successor to FIX-36. | |
| Capital increased to 250.8 million yen. | |
| 2004 | Received the 37th National Award from the Medium and Small Business Research Institute (now the Good Company Award). |
| 2005 | Relocated all functions and facilities of the Nagano Factory, which was integrated with the Shioda R&D Center to form the Head Office and Factory. |
| Installed a solar power generation system (30 kW) in consideration of the environment. | |
| Donated to relief efforts for the Sumatra Earthquake in Indonesia. | |
| 2006 | Commenced full-scale development of the North American market. |
| Began offering stationed services in Thailand and Malaysia. | |
| Acquired ISO 14001:2004 certification, the international standard for environmental management systems. | |
| Registered a patent for the movable taper ironing method. | |
| 2007 | Developed and commercialized our own ultra high-speed fin press (AT-80H) in response to the need for high efficiency. |
| Established an external training program that dispatches employees to graduate schools of national universities to develop highly specialized engineers. | |
| 2008 | Established Hidaka Precision Tools & Dies Company in Texas as a North American sales office. |
| Donated to relief efforts for the Sichuan Earthquake in China. | |
| 2010 | Expanded the solar power generation system to a total output of 80 kW in consideration of the environment. |
| 2011 | Celebrated our 50th anniversary. |
| Developed and commercialized our own ES-50 Fin Press, which can be used for small-lot production of special heat exchangers and can be equipped with a high fin die. | |
| Donated to relief efforts for the Great East Japan Earthquake. | |
| 2012 | Donated toward the establishment of Ueda City Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital. |
| Participated in the Rape Blossom Project in Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture, as a volunteer for earthquake reconstruction. | |
| 2013 | Commenced sales of fin production lines for plate-fin-type microchannel heat exchangers. |
| Received the JSTP Best Paper Award of the Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity. | |
| 2014 | Commercialized Fin Press FIX-80N (80 tons) as the successor to FIX-80. |
| 2015 | Celebrated the 40th anniversary of the relocation to Ueda City. Extended the administration building. |
| Received the JSTP Best Paper Award of the Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity. | |
| 2019 | Established HIDAKA PRECISION TOOLS INDIA PVT. LTD. in Neemrana, Rajasthan, India, as a wholly owned (solely owned) service and maintenance company. |
| 2022 | Established HIDAKA ENGINEERING (THAILAND) CO., LTD. in Samutprakarn, Thailand, as a wholly owned (solely owned) service and maintenance company. |
| 2025 | Celebrated the 50th anniversary of the relocation to Ueda City. Established the Guangzhou Office of Hidaka Seiki Co., Ltd. in Guangzhou City, China, as HIDAKA Japan’s directly managed point of contact in relation to new equipment and maintenance. |