Business　Basics

We are manufacturing bus vehicles of Hino and Isuzu brand for domestic market.
The production of sight seeing buses and rout buses for domestic market are made at both Utsunomiya and Komatsu plants, and Utsunomiya plant mainly responsible for the production of route buses.
Utsunomiya plant produces 1,700 units of buses annually, and Komatsu plant in Ishikawa Prefecture also produces 1,800 units of buses annually. A total annual demand of Japanese domestic market of together with the sight seeing and route buses reaches 5,000 units, and 3,500 units of them are produced by us.

In Japan, bus vehicles are made only by 3 plants, including our 2 plants in Utsunomiya and Komatsu City and one other company. In addition to the manufacturing of buses, maintenance works for interior and exterior of buses and repairs of damaged buses are performed in our company.

Tochigi Prefecture and its Business Environment

Originally Utsunomiya plant had been operated as a manufacturing plant of railroad freight cars for Kawasaki Heavy Industries. As the decline of the freight cars production, we consolidated its manufacturing into Hyogo plant, and in return, transferred the bus vehicles production of Giru plant to Utsunomiya. Later, the ownership of this plant was transferred to us. We have the closest station, Okamoto station in JR Utsunomiya line, many employees are commuting from there.

Made in Tochigi

Each bus is manufactured by a complete buit-to-order production, one by one. All parts and components required for production are procured by synchronizing with the production process, no extra parts and components are stored as a stock in the plant.

In the production process, we pay our attention on even an expiration dates of auxiliary materials because a special glue are used for the production. Quality inspections are made at the quality gates located in each assembly process by skilled engineers. Since on-road problems of sightseeing and route buses shall be definitely avoided, each worker is pursuing the quality control by taking their responsibilities on their own jobs.

Contributing Local Community

As one of our major activities, we are thoroughly accepting plant tours. Annually we accept approximately 7,000 persons of requests mainly from elementary schools in the Kanto area, including from Tokyo, Chiba and Ibaraki Prefecture.
Also as a member of the NPO in Nishi-kinugawa, we participate for their nature conservation programs of river cleaning activities.

Comments for the People in Tochigi

We have about 600 employees, most of them are residents in Tochigi.
More than 60 percent of the Japanese route buses are manufactured by them in Utsunomiya. Every employee put their best efforts to make a better quality of buses everyday.

From the stand points of the reduction of CO2 emissions, it would be appreciated very much if you could consider to commute by taking buses, as an economy transportation.