Last updated : 05/18/2022
Kawada Corporation
- President
- Atsuo KAWADA (Mr.)
- Year established
- 1952
- Capital
- 100,000,000 yen
- Sales
- 13,000,000,000 yen
- Employees
- 487
- Postal (zip) code
- 734-0052
- Company address
- 2-8-11 Horikoshi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima-shi
- Phone
- 082-281-3269
- Fax
- 082-282-8196
- URL
- http://www.kawadakk.jp/
Company PR
Kawada Corporation is a manufacture of automotive parts mainly producing chassis and drive-lines perfectlyobserving international quality standard of TS16949 and environmental operation standard of ISO-14001. In themean time, Kawada also delivers fully integrated product manufacturing from development and design to diedesign and casting, forging, machining and assembling.
Major Products
- Automobile parts such as transmissions, underbody parts
- Hot forgings
Major Customers
- Mazda Motor Corp.
- Ford Motor Company
- Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
- JTEKT Corporation
- NTN Corporation
- NSK Ltd.
- Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
Major Facilities/Equipment
- Various types of machine < CNC lathe turning machine, CNC machining center, grinding machine, various
specialized machine and etc. 700-PCS in total>
- Forging machine, 10-PCS in total
・Forging press: 1600t 3-PCS, 2500T 4-PCS <2-PCS are transfer press of the machines>
・Continuo precision hot forging machine: 3-PCS (HATEBUR AMP50,70)
- Heat treatment
With thermal refining or with normalizing batch furnace, 300t of treatment /month is available.
- Electrodeposition cation coating
With 100% automatic electrodeposition cation coating appliance, 2,500t of coating/month is available
Technology Employed
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- Internal design, development and making of forging die as well as in-house heat treatment and ED coating
are successfully available
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- Induction heating hardiness treatment with mobility shingle shot
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- In-house precision metal die making with electrode control processing or with electrical spark forming are
available
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- 300t of heat treatment /month is available with utilizing thermal refining or with normalizing batch furnace
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- It is possible for us to deal with a wide range of production from a multikind and small quantity production to a mass production line, utilizing about 700 machines that we possess, such as CNC lathe turning machines/machining and special purpose machines.
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- Other holding facilities and equipments for testing are: torsion tester, tension tester, bending test, hardness scale, balance scale and adjustment, and various testing machines for quality assurance objective.
Primary Area of Technical Expertise
To ensure high quality customer satisfaction, we fully utilize our integrated in-house production system, from development and designing of die and production system < raw material forging, heat treatment, ED coating,machining, and assembling > for realizing high quality with low cost product.
Future Business Challenges
- Machining and assembling mechanical function parts in different area by effectively making use of the experiences and technologies of automotive parts producing
- Expansion of forging business in the spirit of no constraint on its material or its figuration
Future Technical Challenges
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- To build up product development technology in order to make the response faster, flexibly, and more
efficiently toward request from customers
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- To reinforce the construction of machining lines more flexible in order to comply with various products as
well as swinging production volume
- Transportation machinery/equipment manufacturing industry
- To upgrade efficiency of optimum design method of die as well as die making