- Business
- Takada Corporation (1966.T) engages in plant construction, engineering, plant diagnosis, and electronics equipment businesses primarily in Japan and internationally. Founded in 1940 and headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan, the company designs, procures, manufactures, constructs, and maintains industrial facilities including steel manufacturing plants; chemical plants; oil and natural gas plants; energy plants such as nuclear, solar, wind, and hydrogen facilities; environmental plants like waste treatment and sewage facilities; and electronics-related production lines featuring CMP slurry mixing and supply systems, gas/chemical monitor and alarm systems, chemical feed systems, vacuum piping, bulky gas piping, special materials gas piping, cylinder cabinets, hook-up piping, exhaust gas treatment systems, and decompression boxes. It provides engineering services encompassing process design, basic design, detailed design using 3D CAD and laser scanning, procurement, construction management, electrical and instrumentation works, and maintenance; plant diagnosis solutions such as the T-MCMA motor current multiplex analysis system for rotary machines, corrosion damage analysis for static equipment, piping inspection robots, stress corrosion crack prevention via shot peening, and cracking furnace maintenance; and electronics equipment including ultrasonic cutting systems for SiC wafers and ceramics, single wafer wet processing systems, polish cut systems, dicing frame cleaners, batch process automated wafer cleaning systems, and IPA vapor dryers. Operations extend through subsidiaries like Singapore Takada Industries Pte. Ltd., Sri Takada Industries (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., and Takada Corporation Asia Ltd. in Southeast Asia. In March 2025, JGC Japan Corporation, a subsidiary of JGC Holdings, announced a capital and business alliance with Takada, acquiring approximately 20.31% of its shares via third-party allotment and transfers from existing shareholders to enhance capabilities in plant engineering and maintenance, with the transaction tentatively closing on March 26, 2025 pending regulatory approval.