- CEO
- Nobuya Uranishi
- Full Time Employees
- 6,916
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Auto parts: OEM
- Address
- Sun Hamada Bldg. Yokohama KN Japan 222-0033
- IPO Date
- Feb 24, 2004
- Business
- Unipres Corporation manufactures and sells automotive stamped parts, transmission components, and plastic-resin products primarily to the Nissan Group, which accounts for about 80% of its sales. The company produces car body products including upper body parts such as hoods, reinforced roofs, front roof rails, pillars, side sills, guard bars, and trunks; lower body parts such as front side members, hoodledges, cowl tops, dashes, tunnels, cross members, wheel houses, rear side members, reinforced front and rear bumpers, steering members, and fuel tanks; transmission products such as torque converter components including converter covers, turbine shells, impeller shells, clutch packs, carrier packs, and others like shell connectors, piston retainers, oil pans, and shift forks; and plastic-pressed products such as radiator core supports, trunk trims, battery trays, front air guides, fenders protectors, mud guards, bumper energy absorbers, splash guards, under covers, rear diffusers, and fuel tank protectors. Founded in 1945 and headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, Unipres operates globally through segments in Japan, the Americas, Europe, and Asia with facilities in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, France, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Russia, and Brazil. Recent developments include the authorization and execution of a share buyback plan in November 2024, repurchasing 486,100 shares for ¥499.97 million or 1.09% of its stock, and the merger absorbing Unipres Technical Research Co., Ltd. in April 2024.