- CEO
- Nobuo Shigematsu
- Full Time Employees
- 399
- Sector
- Health technology
- Industry
- Medical specialties
- Address
- 1-26-1, Nishigahara Tokyo TY Japan 114-0024
- IPO Date
- Apr 2, 1963
- Business
- Shigematsu Works Co., Ltd. (7980.T) manufactures and sells personal protective equipment (PPE) principally for occupational safety and health in industrial applications. The company offers powered air purifying respirators, particle respirators, gas respirators and chemical cartridge respirators, supplied-air respirators, self-contained breathing apparatus, protective clothing, protective gloves, eye protectors, hearing protectors including ear-muffs and ear-plugs, personal fall-arrest systems, holding stretchers, oxygen meters, and related instruments, chemicals and materials for disaster prevention including escape, firefighting and rescue operations; it also provides maintenance, inspection, repair services for PPE and education on industrial accident prevention. Shigematsu Works serves major customers across government and public offices as well as industries such as textiles, chemicals, oil and gas, automobiles, machinery, electricity, electric power, iron and steel, shipbuilding, heavy industry, fishery, mining, transportation, warehousing, construction, food and healthcare.
Founded in September 1917 and headquartered at 1-26-1 Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan, the company operates manufacturing plants in Japan including Saitama and Funehiki, with approximately 390 employees and listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market. Shigematsu Works maintains international distribution networks in Asia, Europe, Oceania and beyond, including a new distributor Precision Technologies Pte Ltd added in Singapore as of August 2025.
Recent developments include the renewal of products catalogs and issuance of new leaflets such as for the Lambda-Line N95 donning method in March 2024, alongside updates to UKCA and CE certificates by BSI Group in May and December 2025 respectively; the company participated in CiOSH trade shows in 2023 through 2025 and launched new distributors like CleanAIR ApS in Denmark in 2022. In July 2023, it released the new half mask TS01, particle filter YP3R and combined filter YABEK1P3R. No major acquisitions, funding rounds or reorganizations have been reported in the last two years.