Overview / History

RIX CORPORATION

1-15-15 Sanno, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812-8672, JAPAN

81-92-472-7311(main)

October 1907

May 1964

827,9 Million Yen

Tokyo Stock Exchange (Prime) / Fukuoka Stock Exchange

49.7 Billion Yen (fiscal year ending March 31, 2024 / consolidated)

723 (as of March 2024 / consolidated)

Hakata Branch of NISHI-NIPPON CITY Bank
Fukuoka Chuo Branch of MUFJ Bank
Fukuoka Branch of HIROSHIMA Bank
Sales division in HQ of FUKUOKA Bank
Fukuoka Branch of HIGO Bank
Fukuoka Branch of MIZUHO Bank
Fukuoka Branch of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking

Manufacture and sale of fluid application equipment and devices /
Sales of precision automatic measuring instruments /
Sales of steelmaking secondary materials

The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) Certificate (Special-4) License # 7092
Machinery and equipment installation and construction
The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) Certificate (General-5) License # 7092
Pipe construction business

Production Division (rotary joint products)

Production Division Fukuoka Office (rotary joint products and precision cleaning equipment)

• Representative Director
  Takashi Yasui
• Representative Director
  Hideaki Kakimori
• Director
  Noboru Kawakubo
• Director
  Kosuke Serikawa
• Director
  Kenji Oganna
• Director (Full-Time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
  Shunji Tawara
• Outside Director (Part-Time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
  Isao Uematsu
• Outside Director (Part-Time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
  Kazuhiro Ohyama
• Outside Director (Part-Time Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)
  Sadahito Baba

• President Executive Officer
  Takashi Yasui*
• Vice President Executive Officer
  Hideaki Kakimori*
• Senior Managing Executive Officer
  Noboru Kawakubo*
• Managing Executive Officer
  Kosuke Serikawa*
• Senior Executive Officer
  Tadashi Hashimoto
• Senior Executive Officer
  Hiroaki Egashira
• Senior Executive Officer
  Kiyoto Isa
• Senior Executive Officer
  Kenji Oganna*
• Executive Officer
  Ichiro Obana
• Executive Officer
  Shunsuke Fujii
• Executive Officer
  Takeo Nonaka
• Executive Officer
  Hiroyuki Wada

(*) serves concurrently as a board of director.

https://www.rix.co.jp/en/

Toshichi Yamada founded Yamada Shoten as a distributor of Shimaya Tabi Honpo in Tsunaba-cho, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka.

Became the Kansai and western distributor of Nippon Yushi Kogyo Co., Ltd. (currently NOK Corporation)

Delivery of various oil seals to Yahata and Tobata Steel Works of Nippon Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (currently Nippon Steel Corporation), and entry into the industry.

Acquired the company name as Yamada Trading Co., Ltd.

Started manufacturing and sales of high-pressure hydraulic pump. Building the foundation as a "manufacturing & trading company".

Merged with Kyowa Kogyo Co., Ltd. Started operation at Fukuoka Plant.
Company name changed to Yamada industrial Co., Ltd.

Head office building is newly built and relocated to Sanno, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka.

Started manufacturing and sales of high-pressure precision cleaning equipment.

"Rocky Light" Steel Forming Sedatives received the Director-General's Prize for Science and Technology.

Relocated the Sales Headquarters to Tokyo to strengthen sales information gathering.
Company name is changed to RIX CORPORATION and established a new management philosophy.
Concluded a sole agency agreement is made between RIX and TOX Pressotechnik (Germany).
Started sales of the company's products (metal joining machines-TOX).

Technology and Development Center is established to Develop High-Pressure Hydraulic Technologies and Products.

“IC resin deburring equipment -AX” for the semiconductor industry received the Excellence Award from the Kyushu Industrial Technology Center and is selected by Semiconductor International Magazine as one of the best products developed in 1992.
Commercialization and start of sales of the metal deep hole deflashing device-RX for the automobile industry.

Listed on the Fukuoka Stock Exchange.

Manufacturing Development Fukuoka factory achieves ISO 9001 (Rotary Joint Product).

Commercialization and start of sales of Flux precision cleaning equipment.

Commercialization and start of sales of RXA, a fine burr removal and cleaning device for automotive precision parts.

Ultra-high-speed and ultra-high-voltage rotary joints received the Kyushu Industrial Technology Center Award.
The Fukuoka factory was reorganized to manufacture high-speed spinning joints and develop products for semiconductors, and the Fukuoka Office was established.

Acquisition of ISO 14001 certification at Manufacturing Development Fukuoka Office Established local sales subsidiary in Bangkok, Thailand (RIX TECHNOLOGY (THAILAND) Co., Ltd.).
Established a local sales subsidiary in Shanghai, China (RIX SHANGHAI CORPORATION).

Established manufacturing subsidiary in Chonburi, Thailand (SIAM RIX MANUFACTURING Co., Ltd.).

100th Anniversary in Business.
Concluded an import sales contract with Danfoss (Denmark) for inverters and soft starters.

Listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Nano atomization equipment (G-smasher) using the droplet collision method won the Technology Award at the Autumn Presentation of the Society of Powder Technology.
Established a local manufacturing subsidiary in Changzhou, China. (RIX CHANGZHOU MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. )

Commercialized and started sales of nano atomization device (G-smasher).
Established Nexus CT Co., Ltd.

Established a local sales subsidiary in Stuttgart, Germany (RIX Europe GmbH).

Established a local manufacturing subsidiary in Dalian, China.(RIX DALIAN MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.)

Established a local sales subsidiary in Tennessee, USA (RIX North America, LLC).

Designated to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Acquired WOOJEON TRADING CO., LTD as a sales base for RIX own products and products in South Korea.

Established a sales subsidiary in Jakarta, Indonesia (PT RIX ORIENT INDONESIA).

Established a sales subsidiary in Mumbai, India (RIX INDIA TRADING&SERVICE PVT.LTD.).

Acquired Saeki Engineering Co., Ltd., which manufactures hydro pumps, rotary joints, rotary actuators, etc.

Changed the name of the local subsidiary in South Korea (RIX WOOJEON KOREA CO., LTD).

Dissolution of subsidiary Saeki Engineering Co., Ltd. due to transfer of production headquarters.

Established RIX Machining and Manufacturing, LLC in USA as a sub-subsidiary.

Converted CEM Co., Ltd. into a sub-subsidiary.

Established a local manufacturing subsidiary in Karnataka, India (RIX INDIA MANUFACTURING PVT.LTD.).