To be your best business partner
Manufacturing companies face various issues such as Iot、AI、SDGs、Sustainable, decarbonize. Raising productivity, high quality, and a defect rate as close to zero as possible have been told as Japan''''s basic stance on manufacturing. Although, I think that excessive kaizen has made companies rigid and has become a constitution that cannot think flexibly. CASTEM aims to be a company that thoroughly continues to make attempts to attract new needs that have never been seen before. I would like to review once again the very old stereotype like “this shape and this material are only for this application” and reincarnate it with a completely new form and material with current technology. And we want to walk with pride as a partner, not as a subcontractor to our customers. We will be the brand-new manufacturing company that freely repeats changes and combinations like an amoeba while possessing a basic pyramid structure, and the whole is harmonize. We will draw a future forecast that everyone will be excited about.
CEO
Takuo Toda
Creating
CASTEM Group''''s passion for manufacturing has driven us to work for human resources development. Setting up "a division working on paper airplanes." is its prime example.
A single piece of paper turns into an airplane flying over the great blue sky, and a small technical effort makes different trails.
Such a small experiences leads children to future efficient engineers. From a small factory to a leading developer of technology, our evolution never ends.
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Most recent update:2024-10-29
1948 |
Started confectionery business with 2 employees |
Expand business with castella, carbis, chocolate, etc. |
1968 |
Started Lost Wax Precision Casting Prototype at the Confectionery Machine Maintenance Division |
1970 |
Casting division was separated, and established King invest Co.,Ltd. |
1975 |
Expansion of new melting furnaces, construction of mold buildings |
1986 |
Wax and coating building extension |
1989 |
Casting, and mold building extension, construction of new material development building |
1991 |
Established branches in Osaka and Tokyo |
Obtained U.S. patent for Metal Injection |
1995 |
K2 FINE METAL CORPORATION 設立 |
1995 Established a precision casting company in Philippines, K2 Fine Metal Corporation |
1997 |
Construction of processing building (introduction of machining) |
2000 |
ISO 9002 certification at CASTEM and Philippines factory |
Established Nagoya branch |
2001 |
Renamed CASTEM Corporation |
2002 |
Established CASTEM (Thailand)Co.,Ltd.(C.T.C) |
Renamed K2 Fine Metal Corporation to CASTEM Philippines Corporation |
Separated Sales Dept. as CASTEM Incorporation |
2004 |
Established CASTEM (Siam)Co.,Ltd.(C.S.C) |
2006 |
ISO 9001 certification at C.P.C |
2007 |
Shifted to a holding company system Holding company : CASTEM Co.,Ltd. |
Manufacturing : CASTEM Engineering Co.,Ltd. |
Sales & Marketing : CASTEM Incorporation |
ISO 9001 certification at C.S.C |
2008 |
ntegrated CASTEM FJC into CASTEM Engineering Co.,Ltd. |
Integrated Paper Airplane Studio into CASTEM Incorporation |
2009 |
CASTEM Engineering Co.,Ltd. and CASTEM Incorporation merged into CASTEM Co.,Ltd. |
2010 |
Tokyo Branch (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo) closed, South Kanto Office (same as the location of Tokyo Branch) and North Kanto Office opened. |
ISO 9001:2008 certification at CASTEM |
2011 |
Established CASTEM FRONTIER CORPORATION |
2012 |
EcoAction21 certification at CASTEM |
2015 |
Tachikawa Branch opened, South Kanto Office changed to Yokohama Branch, and North Kanto Office to North Kanto Branch |
Established CASTEM HOUSTON, LCC |
Established CASTEM COLOMBIA S.A.S |
ISO 14001 certification at CASTEM(Siam) Co.,Ltd. |
2017 |
Opened IRONCAFe in Akihabara |
2018 |
CASTEM (Siam) Co., Ltd. Extension |
CASTEM Philippines Corporation absorbs and Expands CASTEM Frontier Corporation |
Opened the CASTEM Kyoto LiQ Building in Kyoto, and opened a Kyoto sales office in the Kyoto LiQ Building. |
Started agricultural business and established Panipani Farm Castem Co., Ltd. in Miyakojima City, Okinawa Prefecture |
Opened "Jinseki IchigoFarm" in Jinseki Kōgen Town, Jinseki District, Hiroshima Prefecture |
Closed IRONCAFe, established Metamate Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, and started entering the market for individuals |
ISO 14001 certification at CASTEM(Thailand)Co.,Ltd. |
Closed CASTEM HOUSTON, LLC and established CASTEM Technology Laboratories, Inc. in the U.S. (Irvine, CA) |
2019 |
Establishment of Amata City Chonburi Branch as the second plant of CASTEM (Thailand) Co., Ltd. |
2020 |
Celebrating 50th Anniversary |
2021 |
Business alliance with JUKI Corporation |
Yokohama Branch (Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture) moved to Ota-ku, Tokyo and changed the branch name to Tokyo Branch |
2022 |
Established Kyushu branch in Fukuoka |
Most recent update:2023-06-19