K.M. SEIKO CO., LTD.

	President name		Masatsugu Kitai
	Address		1-10-16 Yoshita-hommachi, Higashiosaka-city, Osaka, 578-0982, Japan
	TEL		+81-72-966-4466
	FAX		+81-72-966-6677
	Foundation		1959
	Capital		45,000,000 yen
	Number of employees		100
	Company URL		http://www.kmseiko.co.jp/english/index_e.html
	Major lines of business		Nuts for use in automobiles and buildings, cold pressed parts, drill tapping screws
	Top market share products		Drill screws (Drill and Drive)

A highly creative company capable of answering all kinds of customer requests

K.M. Seiko Co., Ltd. manufactures screws for applications that demand the highest standards of quality such as signal installation-use screws, car airbag-use screws, etc. In particular, signal-use screws used to require one-by-one visual checking by a human operator because they needed to be of a quality that could stand up to the toughest conditions, including earthquakes and typhoon winds with velocities of up to 90 meters per second. Such testing is extremely expensive, however, so K.M. Seiko developed an original inspection device® to mechanize the inspection process and drastically reduce costs. As a result, the company was able to gain and keep an overwhelming share of the signal-use screw market.

In addition, K.M. Seiko’s drill screws (Drill & Drive), which were developed to connect 1.2 ~ 6mm thick steel plates without the need to make pre-drilled holes, are equipped with a reamer so that cutting sludge doesn’t adhere to the screw thread even when thick alloy plates are being connected. These screws have gained an extremely favorable reputation among the company’s customers.

In an effort to achieve micron-order product precision, which was considered to be virtually impossible using conventional pressing technology, K.M. Seiko rechecked all the relevant parameters including those of the press machines, dies, materials, etc., Thanks to its meticulous efforts, the company was eventually able to realize micro parts manufacturing on a consistent basis.

Moreover, in recent years, the company has been tackling warm pressing as a manufacturing method for stainless steel and titanium parts. These products are protected from sintering during the pressing process by the application of K.M. Seiko’s originally developed “sara coat”. In addition to being applied to parts manufactured by the company in-house, sara coat processing is also being used on other makers’ products in response to requests from several companies in the parts machining industry.

In keeping with its motto of “Constantly developing new products on the theme of joint parts,” K.M. Seiko obtained certification under the Small and Medium Enterprise Creative Activity Promotion Law in April 2004. Furthermore, the company has been granted an expense subsidy under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Creative Type Technology Research and Development Promotion Program in connection with “the development of precision press technology for super-lightweight information and communications parts”. In these and other ways, K.M. Seiko is gaining public recognition as an R&D company too.