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| Company Name | Matex Co.,Ltd. | ||
| Address | 1-125 Mizukoshi Yao-city, Osaka, 581-0856, Japan | ||
| Founded | 1921 | ||
| Capital | 8.88 million JPY (Individual） 1.03 billion JPY (Matex Group) |
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| Sales | 1.75 billion JPY (Individual, March 2025) 7.30 billion JPY (Matex Group, March 2025) |
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| Employees | 60（Individual） 900 (Matex Group) |
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| Main Bank | MUFG Bank, Ltd. (Yao Branch) | ||
| President・CEO | Mitsunori MATOBA | ||
| Business | 1） | Designing, development, manufacture, and sales of electric actuators used in automobiles, industrial equipment, medical devices, home appliances, etc. | |
| 2） | Designing, development, manufacture, and sales of gear reducers, including planetary gear mechanism. | ||
| 3） | Designing, development, manufacture, and sales of precision injection molded plastic mechanical parts and injection molds. | ||
| 4） | Overall management and operations of wholly-owned mass-production factories in Laguna, Philippines, and Wuxi, China. | ||
History
| 1921 | Matoba Shokai Ltd. founded by the founder Jinjiro Matoba Production of celluloid bicycle frame pumps started |
| 1926 | Production system for frame pumps revised for exclusive export around the world |
| 1937 | Sales of steel balls started |
| 1948 | Company trademark registered as "MATEX" |
| 1955 | Plastic injection molding machines installed Production and sales of commercial precision parts and household goods made of nylon resin started From then on till the present date, all kinds of hearable and malleable resins handled |
| 1972 | R&D into planetary gear module systems started. From then on, various industrial patents acquired |
| 1973 | Company renamed "Matex Co., Ltd." Yao Factory（Current Osaka 1st Factory) opened |
| 1976 | Sales of planetary gear module systems started |
| 1983 | Tokyo Branch opened |
| 1990 | Matex built an additional reinforced two-story warehouse with fireproof cabinets for molds with a storage capacity of 1,000 molds in the site of Yao factory. |
| 1996 | Philippines Plant (in Laguna) inagurated as Matex's first mass-production base abroad. |
| 1997 | Headquarters moved and centralized in Yao Plant. |
| 2001 | ISO9001 obtained |
| 2004 | Philippines No.3 Plant completed. WUXI MATEX PRECISION CO., LTD. started in Jiangsu Province as the second overseas production base. Precision Part Development Dept. initiated |
| 2010 | ISO14001 obtained |
| 2016 | IATF16949:2016 obtained in Wuxi plant in China. |
| 2018 | ISO 9001 and 14001 :2015 obtained. |
| 2019 | Announced a precision reduction gear for robots jointly developed with Sumitomo Heavy Industries,Ltd. |
| 2020 | 100th anniversary of company's founding. Expanded Osaka 2nd Factory to the adjacent land. |
Matex featured on TV program ‛BEAT～Jidai no Kodo’
Matex was featured and broadcasted on June 23, 2019 in Yomiuri TV program ‛BEAT-Jidai no Kodo～’ which introduces the ‛Only One’ company in Kansai.
*Japanese sub title "Jidai no Kodo” means "Heart beat of Era” and this words make people imagine "Challenge to new Era”.
The video is available from the URL below.
(The program is in Japanese only.)
http://www.ytv.co.jp/beat/?bcid=6048189142001
Accompanying H.E.Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Toshiaki MATOBA, our president and CEO, paid a courtesy call on H.E. Mr. Rodrigo R. Duterte, President of the Republic of the Philippines on January 12, 2017.
Our President and CEO Mr. Toshiaki MATOBA paid a courtesy call on H.E. Mr. Rodrigo R. Duterte, President of the Republic of the Philippines as a member of the official delegation accompanying Japanese Prime Minister H.E.Mr. Shinzo Abe on January 12, 2017.
At the Malacanang Palace, he attended the Japan-Philippines Economic Conference as well as the Welcome Reception hosted by President Mr. Duterte. On January 13, Mr. MATOBA arrived Davao City, the birthplace of President Mr. Duterte, by government aircraft and met local business leaders to discuss and exchange views and enhance the relationship.
Mr. MATOBA (second from left) with H.E. Mr. Shinzo and H.E. Mr. Rodrigo R. Duterte at the Malacanang Palace
Mr. MATOBA (right in the front row) with H.E. Mr. Shinzo and H.E. Mr. Rodrigo R. Duterte in Davao City.
