Business　Basics

【Upper:Shunsoku
Lower Left: Achilless Sorbo for Ladies
Lower right: Achilless Sorbo for Men】 　　 【Insulation Materials】 【Electronics Materials】

Achilless Corporation (here in after Achilless) develops and manufactures products from daily life necessities to advanced electronics parts to support every day lives and industries.
Our plastic processing technologies is a core technology to pursuing the development of products, and those technologies have been applied onto every our products, and its possibilities are unlimited.

Achilless's product items are as follows.
　・SHOES
　　House brand shoes, National brand shoes, etc.
　・PLASTICS
　　Automotive materials, Lathers-Cabrons-Laminates, Films, Construction
　　materials, Coated fabrics, etc.
　・INDUSTRIAL MATERIALS
　　Urethanes, Insulation materials, Industrial materials, Shock absorbing
　　materials (Sorbo), etc.

Achilless - Ashikaga Factory No.1 (here in after Ashikaga Factory No.1) is a plastic related factory consists of films factory, leather-cabron factory, coated fabric factory, urethane factory, and shoes factory so on. Achilless Technical Center in Ashikaga Factory No.1 manages fundamental researches and research and developments, and the Quality Assurance Division plays very important rolls for quality control of products with analyzing a cause of customer claims, etc.

Tochigi Prefecture and its Business Environment

【Achilless Technical Center】

The origin of Achilless is Tonori Orimono Kaisha founded by Risuke Tonooka in 1906 for manufacturing and marketing of textiles in and out of Japan. 　
Ashikaga Factory No.1 was originated in Ashikaga City, in different from other companies attracted from other places. We were born in Ashikaga and have been grown in the atmosphere of Ashikaga with deeply connected with the local community. Ashikaga is a town of traditions, this plant also has been built up our own traditions.

Many people may know already but, in the old days, Ashikaga was famous for textiles. Our business had been started from the textiles, weaving looms of textiles, later started making rubber made shoes derived from technology of "Gomu-biki" , a base fabric coated with rubber, and then shifted to the manufacturing of shoes.

Ashikaga Factory No.1 manufactures shoes, films, vinyl leathers, synthetic rubbers, rubber coated fabrics, soft urethane forms, and laminate products.
Our shoes are manufactured in Ashikaga Factory No.1 and No.2 in Japan, amid an increasing number of imports recently. A pair of very popular shoes for children, "Shunsoku" was developed in this plant also.
In the aspect of distribution, by the completion of the Kitakanto Expressway, traffic in east - west became very convenient. This may be extended toward south - north further, we feel it is lucky for us that our company had started our business in here.

Made in Tochigi

Among our products seen by every one, Achilless brand shoes displayed in many shoes stores might be called "Made in Tochigi " products. The product planning and development of "Shunsoku" and other shoes products are exclusively made by the Product Planning and Development Department in Ashikaga Factory No.1, and other product's research and development, except shoes, are made in Achilless Technical Center. Both facilities are playing the center roll of our development, all our products are created from Tochigi.

Our film products are widely used for stationeries, construction materials, household supplies, and precision instruments equipped with semiconductors related materials. Our company manufactures and markets highly functional films, increasing demands are expected in a field of higher performances are required such as solar cell related materials, films for electronics materials, and glass inter layers. In order to adopt our strengths of technical capabilities on plastic compounding or filming, multilayer-film-extrusion machines and clean-room facilities are introduced in the Ashikaga Factory No.1 by July 2011, enabling to produce high quality and functional films with meeting the increasing demands.

Achilless will continuously supply products from here in Ashikaga, not only in Japan but also in the world.

Contributing Local Community

【Social Contribution Activities】

We are cooperating with "Nikko Suginamiki Owner's Program". Its planting had been made about 370 years ago in Nikko Suginamiki, and in aiming for succeeding the Japanese cultural heritage that Japan boasts to the world, Achilless is supporting the "Nikko Suginamiki Owner's Program" organized by Tochigi Prefecture, and cooperating for its conservation.

Every year, we accept 3rd grade students in Ashikaga elementary schools for our factory tours. As an enterprise originated and based on Ashikaga, our factory tours has been programed as social living class in the schools. We are helping to educate the importance of environmental conservations by showing our production process and explaining how our factory is managing environmental activities.

Since 1959, in order to promote the local community social welfare, in cosponsoring with "Charities for peoples at the year end", we are donating our shoes to the local Social Welfare Associations.
Cleaning activities of the factory surroundings are held twice a year, for 15 years.

In addition, our company established Achilles Scholarship Foundation in 1963. This was developed for the purpose of scholarships for many promising individuals, by lending funds for students for their college or university life. Since the foundation, more than 400 students had been granted, they are now playing active rolls as business persons.
In our company, each employees are actively participating on local community events, bases on our mottoes of "At any times, by any individuals who can do it" or "Circle of conserving goods and environments".

ISO 14001 was obtained as whole manufacturing divisions. Every our factory related operations, including in subsidiaries, has obtained it. In aiming to no waste materials, zero-emission activities achieved 0.2 % emission in 2009. The remaining is just a small percentage of 0.2 %, we will continuously pursue by setting a target toward zero-emission.
Saving energies and CO2 reductions were achieved through our products too. The energy source of heavy oil fuels in the plant had been replaced to natural gas for less CO2 emissions. Some of our products are made of raw materials from vegetable origin, the castor oil of biomass feedstock. We are looking forward to be a company useful and helpful for the people through environmental friendly manufacturing process and products.

Comments for the People in Tochigi

Achilless Corporation founded in Ashikaga City in Tochigi, has been grown up by the climate and people of Ashikaga.
We, Achilless, a local industry, further strive to working hard with all people in the community, and it would be greatly appreciated for your support on our "Made in Tochigi" products.