Oriental Motor
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | 1950 |
| Seat | Ueno , Taitō , Tōkyō , Japan |
| management | Eiji Kawahito (President) |
| Number of employees | 3,200 (March 2019) |
| sales | 58.2 billion yen (March 2019; about 335 million euros) |
| Branch | Drive technology |
| Website |
www.orientalmotor.co.jp |
The Oriental Motor Co., Ltd. ( Japanese オ リ エ ン タ ル モ ー タ ー 株式会社 , Oriental Motor Kabushiki kaisha ) is a global manufacturer of electrical drive technology with headquarters in Ueno , Taitō , Tōkyō .
Product portfolio
- AC motors
- Brushless DC motors
- Stepper motors
- Servomotors
- Controller
- Actuators
- Fan
Company history
In 1885 Yasutarō Kuraishi began producing and selling electrical devices in the Tokyo neighborhood of Nihonbashi. At the beginning of the 20th century he successfully developed commutator motors and in 1940 a 1-phase synchronous motor with 1/30 HP. In 1950, the company Tōyō Dendōki kabushiki-gaisha ( 東洋 電動機 株式会社 ) was founded, which was renamed Oriental Motor in 1953 . The expansion into foreign markets began in 1978 with the establishment of a branch in the USA, followed by the European headquarters in Germany in 1982.
Today Eiji Kawahito heads the company, which has twelve production facilities in Japan . Oriental Motor is represented with its own companies in the following countries: Brazil, China, Germany, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the USA.
The head office for Europe is in Düsseldorf.
Customers
Oriental Motor's customers mainly come from the following industries:
- Medical technology
- Semiconductor industry
- mechanical engineering
- Automation technology
- Packaging industry
- Printing industry
- food industry
- Optical industry
- Chemical industry
- Laboratory technology (physical instruments)
- Wood machine industry
- Automotive industry ( factory automation )
- Machine industry (ATMs and ticket machines)