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- About Azbil Kimmon
- Company Profile and History
Company Profile and History
About Us
- Trade Name
- Azbil Kimmon Co., Ltd.
- Established
- March 1904
- Established
- July 1948
- Head Office Location
- Nishi-Shinjuku Mitsui Building, 6-24-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0023
- Office
- Tokyo
- Other branch office
- Hokkaido, Tohoku, North Kanto, Nagoya, Osaka, Chugoku-Shikoku, Kyushu
- Business Office
- Kushiro, Aomori, Kita Tohoku, Akita, Fukushima, Niigata, Nagano, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Hokuriku, Okayama, Shikoku, Kagoshima, Okinawa
- Development Base
- Product Development Department, Regulator Development Department, Calibration Service Center
- Production Base
- Aomori, Fukushima (Shirasawa, Shirakawa, Haramachi), Wakayama, Taiwan
- Engineering Bases
- Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto
- Capital
- 3,157.5 million yen
- Number of Employees
- 439 (March 2023)
- Representative
- Mitsuharu Miyazawa, Chairman and Representative Director
Masayasu Kaminishi, President and Representative Director
- Shareholder
- Azbil Corporation (100%)
- Business Line
- Cloud services, city gas meters, LP gas meters, water meters, oil meters, total calorimeters, other various flow meters, electric instrument, industrial meters, electric telemetry equipment, electrical equipment, security equipment, etc.
- Net sales
- 23.7 billion yen (March 2023)
History
- 1904
- Founded Kimmon Shokai and established factories in Kanda and Honjo, Tokyo.
Developed Japan's first dry-type gas meter, crossed-flat disk type A.
- 1912
- Newly established Head Office and Tokyo Plant in Sugamo, Kita Toshima-gun, Tokyo, Osaka Plant in Osaka City, and Fukuoka Plant in Fukuoka City
- 1913
- Manufactured and developed Jumonji flat disk type and vane wheel type water meters
- 1945
- Head Office and Tokyo Plant relocated to Shimura, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo
- 1948
- Kimmon Shokai is renamed Kimmon Manufacturing Co.
- 1953
- Over-the-counter public offering of shares in Tokyo
Completed Japan's first propane gas meter dry-type PI light
- 1959
- New plant established in Higashiosaka City, Osaka Prefecture; Osaka Plant relocated.
- 1962
- Established Kimmon Quartz Glass Co.
- 1967
- Established Kimmon Electric Co.
- 1980
- Established Shirasawa Manufacturing Co.
- 1990
- Establishes Karatsu Seiki Co.
- 1995
- Established Wakayama Seiki Co., Ltd. and Mizuho Seiki Co.
- 1999
- Began selling "Eco Meter," a lead-free copper alloy water meter that complies with the new water quality standards that came into effect in April 2003.
- 2004
- Merged with Shirasawa Mfg. Co., Ltd. and seven other companies
Issuance of preferred stock
Shirakawa Seiki Co., Ltd. becomes a subsidiary through stock acquisition.
- 2005
- Incorporated into Yamatake Group Inc.
- 2009
- Ltd. equipped with world-class actual flow calibration equipment transferred shares of Kimmon Mizuho Co. to Yamatake Co.
- 2011
- Developed "battery-powered electromagnetic water meter.
Parent company Yamatake Corporation changes its name to Azbil Corporation.
- 2012
- Company name changed from Kimmon Manufacturing Co. to Azbil Kimmon Co. Ltd,
Kimmon Kankyo Setsubi Co., Ltd. merged with Hokkaido Kimmon Construction Co. and Tohoku Kimmon Construction Co.
- 2018年
- Azbil Kimmon Wakayama Corporation merged with Azbil Kimmon Shirakawa Corporation and Azbil Kimmon Shirasawa Corporation and changed its trade name to Azbil Kimmon Energy Products Corporation
- 2019
- Launched Smart Metering as a Service business
Launched cloud service for LP gas
- 2021
- LP Gas Delivery Efficiency Software Development
- 2022
- Started providing LP gas cloud service using the power grid.
azbil Group
Group Overview
(Link to Azbil Corporation website)
Group Symbol
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azbil is the symbol of the azbil Group to unify the spirit of the Group's employees.
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Meaning of azbil: automation, zone, builder
It is a symbol of the Group's philosophy: "We contribute to the global environment while realizing people's 'security, comfort, and achievement' through 'people-centered automation'".
It represents our commitment to use automation technology to build a safe, comfortable, and fulfilling environment (zone), which is the keyword of the Group's philosophy.
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Meaning of Logo Shape
The rounded lowercase letters represent soft humanity, while the oval of the motif and the bouncing rhythm in the upper right corner express infinite possibilities.
Meaning of Logo Color
The warm red color expresses the passion and vitality that symbolize the Group's philosophy. The slightly austere "red" expresses our pride as an automation company with a long history, and our spirit of challenge for the future, which we uniquely named azbilred.
