Produce reliable products meeting customer’s requirement as a preffered supplier.
Develop company culture and people who can work on their own initiative.
Improve ourselves to glow as a innovative and competitive company.
Thank you very much for your continued patronage.
We are a company that aims to solve the wire problems and grow with customers.
With the purpose of growing together with shareholders, customers, suppliers, partner companies, employees working at Hikari, and everyone involved in Hikari, with the purpose of "connecting" joy and happiness, We will work hard to create good things and things.
Thank you in the future.Hikari Corporation
Chairman Masatomo Tazuhara
We would like to thank all of you for your continued patronage.
We have been steadily facing wires for half a century since our founding.
We will continue to work hard to pass on the commitment to "manufacturing" inherited from our predecessors to the next generation.
In addition, we would be happy if we could build a partnership where we can learn and grow together with many people while flexibly responding to the trends of the times and taking on various new challenges.
We look forward to your continued guidance and encouragement. Hikari Corporation
President and CEO Mikio Matsushita
Based on the management policy of "Making reliable products that meet the needs of our customers", we have been manufacturing in good faith.
We will continue to work with our customers in the future by creating new value utilizing our proprietary technologies.Director Sales Manager
Tsuyoshi Asano
We want to contribute to the happiness of our employees and their families and stakeholders.
Create a 100-year-old corporate culture with good manufacturing and human resource development.Board of Directors Management Planning Division
Quality Control & Development General Manager
Takeshi Yasukawa
Establishment | March 5, 1969 |
Capital | 272.0 million yen |
Annual Sales | 3.5 billion yen (for year 2023) |
Group Sales | 4 billion yen (for year 2023) |
Number of Employees | 80 |
Managing Director | Matsushita Mikio |
Shareholders | Osaka Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation Co.,Ltd(SBIC West Japan) Max Corp., Ltd. Masatomo Tazuhara The Nanto Bank, Ltd. |
Main Banks | MUFG Bank, Ltd. The Nanto Bank, Ltd. |
1969 | March 5 | Established HIKARI CORPORATION in Osaka Japan, with capital at 2.5 million yen. |
August | Opened Nara Factory to produce staple wires. | |
1976 | August | Moved head office to Nara factory. |
1983 | December | Established an integrated production system from wire rod. |
1990 | December | Started Nylon coated wire production with NV Bekaert SA under shareholder and technicalcontract. Increased the capital to 120 million yen. |
1996 | July | Started a Team Work Management with profit dividend system. |
2002 | December | Terminated shareholder and technical contract with NV Bekaert SA. |
2006 | April | Opened Gunma factory to produce tying wires. |
November | Installed patenting heat treatment furnace to produce high carbon steel wires. | |
2008 | June | Increased the capital to 256.5 million yen. |
2009 | March | Completed the 2nd construction plan at Gunma factory to strength the Nylon coated wire production. |
2011 | November | Collaborated with Chao Pao Metal Co., LTD., started to produce air-bag wire in Thailand. |
2012 | March | Established Hikari (Thailand) Co.LTD. |
2018 | April | Hikari Monozukuri University (in-house academy) established |
2019 | March | 50th anniversary of the founding |
2021 | March | Increased the capital to 272.0 million yen. |
2022 | March | Masatomo Tatsuhara appointed Chairman of the Board Mikio Matsushita appointed as President and Representative Director |
2023 | August | Started selling Hikari original brand “LUCE RING” |
August | Bunshi MESSE Grand Prize Functionality Category Grand Prize Winner |