Company Profile
Company Name
JFE Advantech Co., Ltd.
Establishment
November 14, 1973
Spin-off from Kawasaki Steel (JFE Steel Corporation) as a subsidiary
Capital
JPY 319.5 million yen
President
Takuya Yoshii
Head Office
3-48 Takahata-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8202, Japan
TEL：+81-798-24-2465
The number of employees
Approx.300
Annual sales
Approx. Six billion yen
ISO 9001 Certified
Registered activities
Design, development, manufacturing, sales , and other incidental services (delivery coordination, on-site construction, on-site adjustment, inspection, repair) of Water level detectors, Machine Diagnosis Instruments, Thickness gauges, Hardness tester, Weighing systems, Ocean and River instruments.,
Products and Services
Water Environment Measuring Instruments
Submerged level detectors, Ultrasonic pulse coherent flowmeters, Sludge density meters, Optical dissolved oxygen meters, UV meters, NADH meters
Measuring and Diagnosis
CMS (Condition Monitoring System), Machine diagnosis instruments, Vibrometers, Insulation Deterioration detector,
Corona discharge checker, Gas/Air leak viewer, Ultrasonic thickness gauges and Hardness tester
Weighing System
Weighing systems, Load cells, Truck scales, Crane scales
Belt Conveyor scales, Constant feeders, Specialized scales
Ocean and River Instruments
CTDs, comprehensive water quality meters, salinity meters, DO meters, chlorophyll meters, turbidity meters, electromagnetic flow velocity meters, ultrasonic river flowmeters (ATENAS flow measurement systems)
History
April 1944
Steel Works in Takamatsu branch plant of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. begins production of weighing devices.
April 1949
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. begins production of thermal control gauges.
August 1950
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. spins off its Steel Works Section as Kawasaki Steel Corporation, an independent company. Kawasaki Steel Corporation inherits the thermal control gauges section from Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. and starts production of thermal control gauges factory.
October 1951
Merger of The Fukiai Factory's Gauge Production Department and the Hyogo Factory's Weight Measurement Production Department to create the Measuring and Weighing Instruments Production Works in Kobe's Fukiai Ward.
October 1960
The Measuring and Weighing Instruments Production Works relocates to 3-48 Takahatacho in Nishinomiya city.
November 1973
Kawatetsu Metrological Equipment and Vending-machine Co., Ltd. founded as a subsidiary company- a spin-off of The Measuring and Weighing Instruments Production Works Section of Kawasaki Steel Corporation.
November 1977
Fukuoka Sales Office opens.
November 1986
Nagoya Sales Office opens.
January 1988
The company changes its name to Kawatetsu Advantech Co., Ltd.
February 1992
Sendai Sales Office opens.
June 1994
Okayama Sales Office opens.
August 1995
Acquisition of ISO 9001 Certification.
April 1996
Approved as a Designated Manufacturing Business Operator under the Measurement Act.
April 2000
The departmentalization system is adopted.
August 2000
East Japan Service Center and West Japan Service Center open.
April 2003
The JFE Group is established. The company becomes a member of the JFE Steel Corporation Group.
April 2004
The company changes its name to JFE Advantech Co., Ltd.
July 2006
Tokyo Branch is reorganized as Tokyo Office.
September 2007
Relocation of Tokyo Office to Kuramae in Taitoku.
September 2008
Acquires Alec Electronics Co., Ltd. and changes its name to JFE Alec Co., Ltd.
April 2010
A merger of JFE Advantech Co.,Ltd. and JFE Alec Co., Ltd.
April 2012
The Product Planning and Development Department and the IT Management Department spun off from the main plant and reorganized as the Product Technology Development Center.