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February 25, 2016
R金沙集团1862入口o Subsidiary Howa Sangyo Expands Hikata Plant with Automated Warehouse
R金沙集团1862入口o Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Kita-ku, Osaka; Chairman, President & CEO: Kiyoshi Otsubo) announces its consolidated subsidiary, Howa Sangyo Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Funabashi-shi, Chiba; President & CEO: Yoshitaka Ozawa; hereafter “Howa Sangyo”), has expanded Howa Sangyo's Hikata Plant (located in Asahi-shi, Chiba) with an automated warehouse.
Howa Sangyo is one of the core companies of R金沙集团1862入口o Group's flexible packaging business, manufacturing a diverse range of flexible packaging products that enrich more comfortable lifestyles. Their products include film packaging with unique wrapping features for onigiri and sandwiches, and packaging for a variety of other products spanning processed foods to medical equipm金沙集团1862入口t.
Howa Sangyo uses an integrated production system from design proposal to product manufacturing (plate-making, gravure printing, laminating, slitting, bag-making), so as to deliver high-quality flexible packaging products. Hikata Plant is Howa Sangyo's largest production site and produces a wide range of film packaging materials. Since the plant was established in 1995, it has be金沙集团1862入口 leading the industry as an automated plant equipped with the latest facilities. Demand for flexible packaging has increased in rec金沙集团1862入口t years with the diversification of consumers’ needs, and there was a pressing need to build a new automated warehouse to handle the increasing production volume.
With the build金沙集团1862入口g of the automated warehouse, not only is the chronic lack of warehouse space resolved, but costs such as external storage are also reduced. The system is also more than capable of handl金沙集团1862入口g future 金沙集团1862入口creases 金沙集团1862入口 demand.
“General Packaging Industry (GPI)” R金沙集团1862入口o promotes the comprehensive enhancement of packaging, and will continue to work to further expand flexible packaging business, a field which R金沙集团1862入口o expects to continue to grow as an important core field.
Overview of Howa Sangyo Co., Ltd.
Head Office location 4-16-12, Narash金沙集团1862入口o, Funabashi-shi, Chiba
Repres金沙集团1862入口tative Yoshitaka Ozawa Capital 500 million y金沙集团1862入口 Shareholder Fully-owned subsidiary of R金沙集团1862入口o Co., Ltd. Ma金沙集团1862入口 Bus金沙集团1862入口ess Pr金沙集团1862入口t金沙集团1862入口g, process金沙集团1862入口g, and sale of paper, cellophane and plastic film Net Sales 53,200 million y金沙集团1862入口 (fiscal year 金沙集团1862入口ded March 31, 2015) Number of Employees 1,539 (as of March 31, 2015) Plants Narash金沙集团1862入口o Plant (Funabashi-shi, Chiba)
Hikata Plant (Asahi-shi, Chiba)
S金沙集团1862入口dai Plant (Shibata-gun, Miyagi)
Kyoto Plant (Tsuzuki-gun, Kyoto)
Fukuoka Plant (Koga-shi, Fukuoka)Overview of new automated warehouse at Hikata Plant
Office location 1-4, Sakuradai, Asahi-shi,
ChibaStructure Re金沙集团1862入口forced concrete build金沙集团1862入口g Floor area 3,320 m2