Uchinuki is satisfying wide-ranging needs as a manufacturer devoted to perforated metal field.

Plant staff

Our company has two manufacturing plants in Fukushima and Hyogo. In both plants, their directors and manufacturing staff are working hard, sometimes even on holidays, to achieve quality and delivery date requested by customers based on the corporate philosophy "delivery of satisfaction to our customers."
On the basis of our customer satisfaction analysis according to ISO9001, we have conducted a customer survey, which suggests that customer satisfaction with our plants is high and proves that our customers have been satisfied with our products.
Fukushima plant has 50 staff, which is the highest number among our business offices.

Fukushima plant has four departments, namely Management Department, Manufacturing Department, Technology Department and Quality Assurance Department. The plant is led by female plant manager Mizuno. It is rare to see a female leader in a metal-processing plant having fifty staff members.
She says, "Although I am a plant manager, I want to communicate with our staff like their mothers." Of course, this does not mean spoiling the staff. She wants to create a family-like atmosphere in the plant while sometimes strictly instructing and sometimes praising the staff to stimulate their motivations. As shown in the Japan Metal Daily (newspaper), our company has established a 1φ-level graphic punching technique and is also developing new knit-like patterns.

Hyogo Plant, which is smaller than Fukushima Plant, is led by plant manager Nakao, who is leading 5S activities (particularly 3S activities). Attracted by them, local trade association members visit the plant to see them. In Fukushima Plant's four departments and Hyogo Plant, our company's 2.5-generation staff members are growing. While the current top management and major staff correspond to our company's second generation, our company is endeavoring to foster young mid-level staff to ensure its long-term stability and growth and create new social values. Our company has cultivated human resources who can respond to its needs.

In terms of production and quality improvements, we have some issues to tackle. The presence of issues means that there is still room for our growth, so we are going to cope with not only obvious issues but also latent ones by utilizing the ISO9001 management method.

Fukushima Plant

Hyogo Plant

Sales staff

The number of sales staff members are three in the main office, three in Tokyo and one in Kansai Sales Office. President Nakao, executive director Iwasa and plant manager Nakao also carry out sales work, although it is not their main work. Sales department is led by director Abe, experienced with 33-year work history in our company. He is always serving customers in their shoes and providing them with satisfaction as a symbolic staff of Uchinuki. Both chiefs of sales offices in Tokyo and Kansai have grown as 2.5 generation and are serving customers as symbolic staff of Uchinuki. They sometimes have to apologetically ask difficult work to plants and subcontractors by bowing their heads and never forget to show their gratitude to good workmanship. I believe that showing gratitude is one way of expressing satisfaction.

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  Head Office Sales

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  Tokyo Sales Office

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  Kansai Sales Office

General affairs department staff

Unlike the sales and plant staff, the General Affairs Department staff play behind-the-scene roles. They are working well both in general affairs and accounting. They are never late for cutoff dates or pay dates arranged with customers. Their in-house reliability is very high. They always consider the work environment of sales and plant staff as general affairs. They are playing a leading role in creating the corporate climate of reducing wasteful spending in the entire company by making other departments aware of the virtue of saving, such as saving of copying cost and communication cost, even if such costs are not so high.

Overseas affiliate companies (in Thailand)

There are two affiliate companies in Thailand, one of which is UCHINUKI, THAILAND (sales company) and the other is UCHINUKI INDUSTRY, THAILAND (manufacturing company). Iwasa, who is our company's director, is also the president of both companies.
Like Sales Department director Abe, he is a veteran having worked for more than 30 years for our company. He was Technology Department director. Before working in Thailand as president, he served as Sales Department director cum managing director. He can handle any work in sales, technology and production technology fields like a superman.
The overseas deployment has just started, and no big achievement has been made yet, but because our company's top-class staff members have been sent to both companies, I believe that their future potential is high.