Last updated : 02/26/2026
Meikodo Co., Ltd.
- President
- Ryutaro KAWAGUCHI (Mr.)
- Year established
- 1951
- Capital
- 24,000,000 yen
- Sales
- 826,000,000yen(Fiscal Year Ending March)
- Employees
- 75
- Postal (zip) code
- 735-8555
- Company address
- 4-1-36 Ohsu, Hiroshima-ken Fuchu-cho, Aki-gun
- Phone
- 082-581-2400
- Fax
- 082-581-2406
- E-Mail
- info@meikodo.co.jp
- URL
- https://www.meikodo.co.jp
Company PR
Building on our proprietary processing technologies cultivated through needle manufacturing—such as wire processing, header processing, point forming, and insert molding—we provide integrated services ranging from the development of various wire and metal-processed products to the design and manufacture of automated machinery.
Through many years of research and continuous on-site improvement, we pursue higher quality and greater production efficiency. At the same time, we are committed to quickly identifying increasingly diverse customer needs and transforming them into tangible products.
Moving forward, we will continue to leverage our accumulated technical expertise and spirit of challenge to expand the possibilities of needle manufacturing into a wide range of industries.
In-house development and manufacturing of specialized machines capable of maintaining tip widths of 10–30 µm
Example Application: Electrical Discharge Needles
Processing of W material (φ0.05 mm) into straight-tip shapes
Example Application: Probe pins for probe cards
Bullet-shaped tip processing
Example Applications: Medical devices, industrial products, etc.
Rounded-tip (R-shape) processing
Example Applications: Comb needles, industrial products, etc.
Chamfered-tip processing
Example Applications: Industrial products, etc.
Metal-Processed Products
Processing Examples: φ0.05–2.0 mm; materials include iron, steel, piano wire, stainless steel (SUS), brass, beryllium copper, and tungsten (W).
VF Material Press Processing
Processing Examples: Hook products, industrial components
PET Sheet Thomson Die-Cutting
Processing Examples: Apparel accessories and supplementary materials
Clips for Apparel Accessories and Supplementary Materials
Silicone products
Major Products
- Needles & Pins
- Products of processed wire(Metal processing products)
- Parts of electric appliances
- Plastic forming
- Die cutting of plastic sheets
- Silicone products
Major Customers
- TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN Co., Ltd.
- Clover Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Hitachi Maxell Ltd.
- GUNZE Ltd.
- Sharp Corporation
- Mazda Motor Corporation
Major Facilities/Equipment
- Automatic pin manufacturing machine 95
SUS, iron, bronze available; f0.3 - 2.0 header processing, cutting, and sharpening.
- Automatic wire bending machine 16
f0.3 - 2.0
- Automatic press machine 18
- Injection molding machine 11
Horizontal 110 t (6), Vertical 75 t (5)
- achining center 2
560 × 410 × 410
Other: Electric discharge machinex 1
(350×250×250)
Technology Employed
- Fabricated metal products manufacturing industry
- Uses a single machine to straighten, cut, header-process, grind, and sharpened wires.
- Fabricated metal products manufacturing industry
- Bends wire freely and automatically to form into shapes such as safety pins.
- Fabricated metal products manufacturing industry
- Can often insert molding of pin and metal to produce objects such as resin thumbtacks; also two-color molding possible.
- Fabricated metal products manufacturing industry
- Utilizing the CAD/CAM systems, designs and manufactures dies requiring high accuracy and precision.
- Fabricated metal products manufacturing industry
- Can design and fabricate various automatic systems.
Primary Area of Technical Expertise
Uses a signal machine to header-process, cut, and sharpen wires made of SUS, Fe, BW, etc. at high speed. Offers designing and fabricating dies including insert molding with CAD/CAM system.
Future Business Challenges
- Expand our line of header-processed products.
- Develop products combining molding and wire processing technologies.
- Develop products made of recycled resins.
- Develop value-added products using processed wire.
- Fabricate various customized automatic equipment to orders.
Future Technical Challenges
- Fabricated metal products manufacturing industry
- Fine-precision processed products
- Chemical industry
- Develop new products using recycled resins.
- Plastic products manufacturing industry
- Produce new products, applying insert techniques of molded and wire products.
