CKD launches new products to expand further its market share in labor-saving and automatic machineries.

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CKD Corporation, based in Komaki City, Aichi Prefecture manufactures labor-saving and automatic machineries.


CKD launches new products to expand further its market share in labor-saving and automatic machineries.
It has a large market share in lighting manufacturing equipment, pharmaceutical packaging machines, and chemical liquid control equipment for semiconductors.
CKD launches new products to expand further its market share in labor-saving and automatic machineries.
The slowdown of overseas economies including China caused stagnating growth in capital investment for rationalization and labor saving by companies although they had been strong until recently.
As a result, operating income for the fiscal year ending March 2019 was 5.43 billion yen, down 56.5% from the previous year. The decline in semiconductor equipment investment and the slowing Chinese investment to automatic machinery have caused equipment segment profits to fall sharply.

On the other hand, in Japan where labor shortages are getting worse, there is an active movement by companies to boost labor saving investment.
CKD has launched a new product to help workers at plants lift heavy goods up to 80 kilograms using air pressure.
In consideration of safety, a new design was adapted in this product to prevent workers from having their fingers caught in joints.
CKD aims for sales of 800 million yen in fiscal 2021 in Japan and overseas that are suffering from aging workers and labor shortages.
In addition, it will launch a high-performance camera that can check pharmaceutical packaging in 1 mm increments.
Using these cameras, it has developed a new inspection system for the pharmaceutical products such as tablets and capsules.
The system detects the position and print displacement of each sheet of medicine in 1 mm units so that the risk of cutting bar codes carrying the information in the middle is reduced.
The price of this newly developed system ranges from 8 million yen to 20 million yen.
Its sales person said that several products have already been shipped and customer’s interest continues to be high.
The market of factory cameras used for inspection and production is expected to grow to 188 billion yen in 2020, expanding 30% compared from 2016 and further demand can also be expected from food and cosmetics companies as well as electronic parts and semiconductors manufacturers.

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