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- TORQ Inc (8077.T) engages primarily in the import, export, and domestic wholesale of rivets, screws, and fastening products in Japan. The company offers a broad range of screw products including small screws, high-strength bolts, anchor bolts, lock nuts, washers, and multi-eye bolts; concrete-related hardware such as anchor plates, stick inserts, and lifting jigs; machine tools and industrial supplies encompassing material handling and transportation equipment, civil engineering and construction tools, welding and fusing instruments, work and measuring tools, safety and disaster prevention goods, air and electric tools, plumbing fixtures, and cutting and grinding tools; as well as stainless steel and special steel products including brass, copper, titanium, and hastelloy. TORQ operates nationwide through branches and sales offices in locations such as Tokyo, Kyushu, Sapporo, Tohoku, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Shikoku, Hokuriku, Okinawa, and Kagoshima, with distribution centers including the Taisho DC, and maintains approximately 4,000 business partners while procuring from factories in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, and exporting select automotive-related products to the US. Founded in August 1926 by Masaharu Kobayashi as a bolts, nuts, and rivets seller in Osaka and formally established in June 1941, the company is headquartered at 2-7-4 Minamihorie, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan, with 224 consolidated employees as of April 30, 2025, and subsidiaries including KOBAX Co., Ltd., Nakasho Machine Co., Ltd., OWAHAGANE Industry Co., Ltd., and Nakajima Koki Corporation. Formerly known as Kobayashi Metals Limited until its rebranding to TORQ Inc in April 2020, the company maintains its listing on the Standard Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange following prior transitions including Prime Market classification in April 2022, with recent operational adjustments encompassing personnel changes announced on September 30, 2025, board resignations and appointments in August 2025, release of third-quarter financial results on September 12, 2025, and relocation of its Higashi-Osaka Center to Taisho DC in April 2022.