- Business
- Sankyo Frontier Co., Ltd. manufactures, sells, and rents modular buildings, self-storage facilities, and multistory parking systems primarily in Japan and select international markets. The company offers a diverse range of unit houses including the CT-J basic series, Cosmo CT, MS1 semi-permanent modular units, Gorilla series for heavy-duty applications, and specialized products such as container bathtubs, plant factories, and capsule hotels like FRONTIER INN Kashiwa Tanaka; it also provides self-storage under the U-SPACE brand, multistory parking devices, and related services encompassing shipment, maintenance, delivery, construction, and dismantlement. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Sankyo Frontier operates over 200 showrooms across all Japanese prefectures, with subsidiaries and branches including Sankyo Frontier USA Inc., Singapore branch, Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Myanmar Company Limited, and an affiliated factory in China, serving industries such as construction, sports and leisure, emergency housing, education, retail, and warehousing. A subsidiary of Wako Kosan Co., Ltd., the company trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market under ticker 9639. Recent developments include the establishment of Sankyo Frontier USA Inc. in 2024, MS NOMAD winning the Good Design Award in 2024, sponsorship contracts with NEC Green Rockets Tokatsu in 2024, release of equity funding to Sankyo Frontier Myanmar Company Limited, opening of a Tsukuba experience-based showroom post-50th anniversary in 2021, completion of a Myanmar factory in 2020, and expansion of showroom and U-SPACE networks surpassing 200 and 400 locations respectively by 2020.