- CEO
- Shinji Sakuma
- Full Time Employees
- 659
- Sector
- Distribution services
- Industry
- Wholesale distributors
- Address
- New Otemachi Building Tokyo TY Japan 100-0004
- IPO Date
- Mar 11, 1987
- Business
- Kyokuto Boeki Kaisha, Ltd. operates as a technology-oriented engineering trading company that imports, exports, wholesales, and provides technical support for machinery, equipment, and materials primarily in Japan and internationally. Founded on November 27, 1947, and headquartered at 7th Floor, Shin-Otemachi Building, 2-1 Otemachi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, the company serves industries including steel, nonferrous metals, automobiles, chemicals, shipbuilding, plant engineering, electronics, and energy through four main divisions: Basic Industry Related, which supplies machinery and equipment for iron and steel mills, oil drilling, resources development, electrical machinery, and automobile production; Electronics and Control System Related, offering electronic components, software, instrumentation and control systems, image processors, ground support equipment, navigation systems, automatic control devices for thermal power stations, seismometers, and aviation and defense materials; Industrial Materials Related, providing resins, coatings, carbon fiber materials such as Torayca fabrics and prepregs, combined material manufacturing machinery, textile processing equipment, meat processing machines, and measurement/analysis tools; and Mechanical Parts Related, handling special order screws, springs, and maintenance products like Never Seez anti-seize compounds, PSEM, TRAVELON air filters, ReleasaGen mold release agents, RTM injection systems, automated fiber placement machines, SOLIMIDE polyimide foam, UVP-DUO ultrasonic velocity profilers, and Orchestra equipment. It conducts operations across Europe, the United States, China, Taiwan, India, South regions, and Mexico, supported by subsidiaries including KBK Europe GmbH, KBK Inc., Kyokuto Boeki India Pvt. Ltd., Kyokuto Boeki Mexico S.A. de C.V., and domestic entities such as KBK Steel Products Co., Ltd., Sunco Spring Co., Ltd., Vahle Japan Co., Ltd., Automax Co., Ltd., Eto Co., Ltd., Plant Maintenance Corporation, and TWD Japan Corporation. Recent developments include the establishment of TWD Japan Corporation as a subsidiary in January 2022, transition to the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market in April 2022, a partnership with ABD Solutions—a member of AB Dynamics Group Plc—for automated plant operation systems announced in early 2022, support for TCFD recommendations in August 2023, and publication of an article on subsidiary Eto Co., Ltd. in November 2022.