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A Message from Companies
Panasonic Corporation Energy Company
- ■ President Mr. Naoto Noguchi
- We, at Panasonic, aim to become the industry’s No. 1 Environmental Innovation Company, and give special emphasis to the lithium-ion battery business as one of our core business areas. In selecting the site for our new main lithium-ion battery factory, we determined it would be economically rational to construct a new factory in Suminoe ward in Osaka City, because of the proximity to our R&D center and the consequent ease of coordination between manufacturing and R&D sectors which is of critical importance for manufacturers; the location in the port area and the convenient accessibility to expressways and Kansai International Airport, which together provides an advantage in logistics; and the availability of Osaka City’s subsidy program. In anticipation of the expansion of the new markets for environmentally-friendly vehicles and power storage systems for home use, the Panasonic Group, which was recently joined by Sanyo Electric, will continue efforts to contribute to environmental protection while developing our energy business in a compatible manner.
Tata Consultancy Services Japan Limited
- ■ President Mr. Masahiko Kaji
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a core member of the Tata Group of India and one of the largest IT consulting companies in Asia. We first expanded our business to Japan in 1987 and opened an office in Osaka in June 2010. The Kansai Region has a heavy concentration of large and middle-sized companies with cutting-edge proprietary technologies that are among the world’s best. The region has also been selected by many global companies as the site of their business bases in Japan. TCS is working to enhance the ability to offer IT solutions to companies in Osaka and the Kansai Region to assist them in developing their businesses globally.
KP Japan Co., Ltd.
- ■ President Mr. Jiang Bo
- KP Japan Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company established solely by China’s Liaoning Kingpowers Group in Osaka in September 2009 to expand business in Japan and strengthen relations with Japanese companies. As one of the world’s economic centers, Osaka offers an outstanding investment environment; many promising trade and investment opportunities, and a well established capital market.
In setting up our office in Osaka, we used the services of JETRO’s Dalian Office and headquarters in Osaka, IBPC Osaka Investment Promotion Center and Osaka Business & Investment Center, which assisted us in completing corporate registration, finding offices, recruiting personnel, and so on.
ESTOH Co., Ltd.
- ■ President Mr. Tatsuo Okubo
- With our sophisticated die and mold technologies for processing ultra-precision components, we have been offering high-quality products in anticipation of customer needs and successfully increased our presence in the precision molding industry.
Currently, our new factory is under construction in Osaka City and will begin operation in the year marking the 20th anniversary of our establishment?a milestone for us. The new factory will help us further promote technical innovation, increase productivity, enhance safety and security and achieve greater environment-friendliness.
In constructing the factory, Osaka City offered us generous support including measures under the subsidy program. As a technology-intensive company, we will remain committed to enhancing customer service and contributing to regional development from the new factory.
Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.
- ■ President and CEO / Daisuke Ogawa
- A few years ago, during an expressway construction project, we had to relocate our head office. During the site selection process, Osaka was chosen as the most promising location, for the following reasons: many of the business partners of our sales and back-office sections are concentrated in Osaka; also, a site around Osaka Station was regarded as the best possible choice, considering the frequent need for business trips between our head office and plants, many of which are located in western Japan.
Moreover, the Osaka City Government introduced us to an incentive program and provided other appropriate support services in a timely manner. We therefore decided that in the future we could expect to receive excellent administrative services in Osaka when needed, so chose to establish our head office in the City.
Yodogawa Medec Co., Ltd.
- ■ President / Toshio Yoshida
- We began our business in the photographic processing field, but currently focus on the liquid crystal-related field, while expanding our scope of business to include the pharmaceutical-related area and mechatronics-related area. Our business concept is to pioneer laborsaving automatic machinery. We will promptly resolve any challenge brought to us by any industry. In terms of polarizing plate laminating machines, which are essential for the production of liquid crystal panels, we have anticipated user needs and realized technological innovations, thereby winning a 70% world-market share.
We will build our new main plant on our present premises in Osaka, to provide a better working environment for our employees. Using Osaka as a base, we will continue to expand our business to Asia and to the world, as a knowledge-intensive company.
Carnegie Mellon University ETC Global Japan
- ■ Program Director / Michelle Macau
- The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University was invited by the City of Osaka to work on projects with industry leaders and to cultivate a relationship with universities. Since January 2008, ETC-JP technologists and artists have collaborated with industry engineers at Sharp Corporation (3 projects) and NEC’s C&C Innovation Research Laboratories (1 project) building interactive media content. A dialogue with Osaka University began with an ongoing exchange of ideas leading to future collaborative projects. The Osaka City government inclusive of IBPC has been instrumental in introducing ETC-JP to companies in the Kansai region and Tokyo.
BBK Worldwide - Osaka
- ■ Program Manager, East Asian Operations
/ Jeremy Buchman - Many factors influenced BBK’s decision to establish our first Asia-Pacific office in Osaka. The city is fast becoming the center of Japan’s biotechnology industry, and the prefectural and city governments have been undertaking numerous initiatives to help Osaka develop into a research hub for all of East Asia. Osaka is also an optimal location from which BBK - a patient recruitment and e-business solution company serving the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries - can operationalize our patient recruitment efforts on behalf of our clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the establishment process, IBPC, JETRO, and O-BIC provided tremendous assistance with visas, the company bank account, interpreters, meetings, etc., and for that BBK gives its thanks and deepest gratitude.
HBC-radiomatic Japan K.K.
- ■ CEO / Tatsuo Kondo
- HBC-radiomatic Japan K.K. is a Japanese subsidiary of HBC-radiomatic GmbH, a Germany-based company with a 60-year history of developing and manufacturing radio control systems for industrial applications. Thanks to generous support from JETRO Osaka and IBPC Osaka from the preparatory stage of our business establishment in Japan, a sales and service facility was set up in Osaka this year for our entry to the Japanese market. For more than ten years, through its local distributors HBC-radiomatic GmbH has offered products and services in the Asian market, such as China and South Korea. However, the company established HBC-radiomatic Japan K.K. in Osaka as its first Asian subsidiary, mainly because thorough service can be provided for crane manufacturers and users concentrated in Osaka, by which entities our products are predominantly used. HBC-radiomatic Japan K.K. will strive to improve work site safety and efficiency throughout Japan, using Osaka as a foothold.
CCIC Japan Co., Ltd. President Yang Ping
- ■ President / Yang Ping
- State-owned China Certification & Inspection (Group) Co., Ltd. (CCIC) is an inspection agency with 162 offices in China and 25 offices overseas. Its Japanese subsidiary, CCIC Japan Co., Ltd., was established in June 2005 in Osaka City, the center of the Kansai region, which is not only geographically close to China, but also a close trade partner for China. CCIC Japan provides pre-shipment inspection and other services for China-bound exports of plastic waste, metal waste and used paper, as well as for secondhand machinery and electrical equipment, demand for which is increasing in China each year. To meet the rapidly increasing demand for such resources from other Asian nations in recent years, CCIC Japan is working to establish an international resource recycling system. The company also promotes the international reuse of secondhand machinery and equipment from Japan and Southeast Asian nations, as businesses in increasing numbers shift their production to China.
