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Company Name | Topre Corporation, Tochigi Plant |
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Address | 〒329-0611 3777 Kaminokawa, Kaminokawa Town, Kawachi County, Tochigi Prefecture |
TEL | 0285-56-3652 |
Website | http://www.topre.co.jp/e_index.html ※Click to open a separate window . |
Since founded in 1935, Topre Corporation - Tochigi Plant has developed its core technologies of the elastic (pressing) processing and die design engineering in order to meet with needs from their customers. We visited their plant in Tochigi and interviewed with Kouichiro Matsuura, Section Manager in Control Department, and Takashi Yamada, Senior Manager in Control Department.
Topre Corporation (here in after Topre) was founded as Tokyo Press Industry Corporation in 1935, and established Tochigi plant in here in 1971.
Topre manages following businesses;
1.Automobile press parts business
2.Non-automobile press parts business
3.Die for metal sheet business
4.Cold storage trucks and Air-conditioning equipment business
5.Others.
Within those 4 major businesses, Tochigi plant incorporates cold storage truck business.
Today's food safety standard is more rigorous than ever before, and more precise temperature control during the delivery and distribution of food is required. Topre's core technologies of cold thermal control enables to manufacture refrigerated vehicles which provides the optimum temperature for a variety of cargos in a range of low to medium temperatures and heated specifications.
The cutting-edge technologies of Topre, as only one manufacturer who handles a whole manufacturing process of the refrigerated units and containers in Japan, are effectively applied into those products.
Locating in a close distance to the Tokyo metropolitan area, and less mountains are appreciated.
Also, it is advantage for us that we could get quick responses from our chassis suppliers by situating in closer to them.
With having an integrated production of refrigerated units and containers, we are able to manufacture refrigerated vehicles which provides optimum temperature for a variety of cargos in a range of low to medium temperatures and heated specifications.
Integrally molded FRP materials with an excellent thermal insulation and durability proves superior rigidity and sealing for storage.
We are the only one integral manufacture who handles the entire production of refrigeration units and containers.
There are 3 merits of having an integrated entire production from refrigeration units to containers.
・To provide shorter delivery with high quality.
・To be able to respond to customer's detailed specifications.
・Superior maintenance-ability
When refrigeration unit and container are separated manufactured in different companies or places, its requires a longer delivery because the vehicle itself must be moved to the different places, and also its requires longer hours for matching of each unit. The Integrated manufacturing in Topre does not required such extra works while meeting with the customer's detailed specifications precisely.
Also in case that refrigeration unit and container are manufactured by separate companies, sometimes it takes longer to find out and analyze the causes of the quality problems. The integrated production in Topre enables us or our customers to fix quickly, even at an emergency by finding out the root cause immediately.
Plant tours for students of local elementary schools are conducted. It is regrettable that our product demonstration are not performed during plant tours, because all our products are tailor-made for the specific customers.
We are also cosponsoring fire works in town and festivals in local communities.
We have an impression that the people in Tochigi are diligent. And most of our workers in Topre Tochigi plant were born and raised in Tochigi.