Toyoda Gosei and Nippon Kayaku form capital alliance for airbags On February 2 Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (Toyoda Gosei) and Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. (Nippon Kayaku) agreed to a capital alliance for greater cooperation in their airbag businesses. Each company will hold approximately JPY 1 billion of each other's common stock. The two firms are both expected to have a capital contribution ratio of about 0.3% each. In 2017, Toyoda Gosei agreed to a capi...

News  Updated at: 2018/02/05

Nippon Kayaku to boost automotive safety parts sales by 30% Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. will expand its safety system business that deals with automotive parts like airbag inflators. For the fiscal year that ends in March 2019 (FY 2018,) the company plans to increase safety system business sales by 30% from FY 2015 to JPY 46 billion. In FY 2016, it will increase capital investment by 50% from FY 2015 to JPY 9 billion, and prepare a system to ensure s...

News  Updated at: 2016/06/02

Nippon Kayaku to establish safety systems production company in Malaysia On January 31, Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. announced that it would establish a new company, Kayaku Safety Systems in Malaysia, which will be engaged in the manufacturing and selling of automotive safety systems components. The Malaysian subsidiary will build a new plant to produce airbag inflators, squibs, micro gas generators for seatbelt pretensioners and other products. Wi...

News  Updated at: 2013/02/01

Nippon Kayaku to expand production capacity overseas to meet growing demand for airbag and seatbelt components Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. is accelerating efforts to enhance its presence in the global safety systems market. The company will expand its existing plants in the Czech Republic and China to raise their production volumes. The capacity is expected to double in China, while climbing by more than 30 percent in the Czech Republic. The major p...

News  Updated at: 2012/07/06

Nippon Kayaku to localize production of ignition agents for gas generation devices at three overseas locations Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. is set to start local production at its all overseas plants of igniting agents for gas generating safety devices. New equipment for ignition powder production will be installed at three plants in Czech Republic, Mexico and China to transfer production of most of ignition agents from Japan to these countries within...

News  Updated at: 2011/02/25

Nippon Kayaku to increase exports of explosives used in car safety devices from the Czech Republic Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. is expanding exports of explosives from the Czech Republic. The company has begun to investigate the possibility of supplying to the plant in China gas generating agents for use in inflators for airbags and micro gas generators for seatbelt pretentioners. ...

News  Updated at: 2009/10/02

Nippon Kayaku completes new plant in China Construction of a new plant for automotive safety devices by Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. was completed in Huzhou, Zhejang Province China. Its mass production is expected to commence by the end of October. A total construction cost up to the term ended May 2009 amounted to approximately one billion yen. The plant manufactures inflators for airbags and micro gas generators (MGG) for seatbelt pretensioners. It ...

News  Updated at: 2009/09/25

Nippon Kayaku aiming to boost sales of automotive safety systems products by 10 billion yen and to achieve operating profit of 2 billion yen in 4 years in mid-term business plan Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. has recently laid out a mid-term business plan through the term ending May 2013, which includes a target of adding 10 billion yen to sales of its automotive safety systems products over the next four years. The company aims to achieve the consolida...

News  Updated at: 2009/07/08

Nippon Kayaku close to completing reorganization of North America production operations Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. is coming close to finalizing reorganization of its auto parts production in North America as early as this summer. Labor intensive production lines will be moved from its U.S. plant to a plant in Mexico, which was inaugurated early this year, by August or September. ...

News  Updated at: 2009/07/06

Nippon Kayaku to reduce workforce at automotive safety parts plants in Japan, the U.S., and Europe Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. will accelerate it initiatives to cut down its workforce at its plants making automotive safety products. By the end of February, the company's Himeji facility (Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture), which manufactures airbag inflators and micro gas generators (MGGs) used in the seatbelt pretensioner system, will reduce 80 employees...

News  Updated at: 2009/01/13

Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. to produce more automotive polarizing and phase difference films in Japan and Europe Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. will increase its production of polarizing and phase difference films for automotive applications in Japan and Europe. By the end of this year, the company will expand the production capacity of polarizing film materials at its subsidiary manufacturer in th...

News  Updated at: 2008/02/05

Nippon Kayaku intending to increase sales of automotive safety system to 50 billion yen Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. plans to increase its sales of safety systems for automotive applications to 50 billion yen or 2.5 times of its current sales by fiscal 2013 ending May 31. This is in line with the company's expanding sales of air bag inflators and micro gas generators used for seatbelt pretensioners, as well as opening of new plants in China and Mexico...

News  Updated at: 2008/01/15

Nippon Kayaku to establish Safety Systems Group in August Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. announced that it will establish on August 30 Safety Systems Group to reinforce its organization for automotive safety systems business such as airbag inflators. It plans to fully improve its responsiveness to globalization and cost/quality competitiveness. The company produces airbag inflators and gas generators used for seatbelt pretensioners, whose demands are in...

News  Updated at: 2007/07/21

Nippon Kayaku to reorganize its North American production structure Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. will reorganize its North American production structure of automotive safety systems. In 2008 as it launches a new plant in Mexico, the company will transfer all production of micro gas generators, or MGGs, from LifeSparc, Inc., its U.S. manufacturing company based in California, to...

News  Updated at: 2007/06/25

Nippon Kayaku to push up sales of inflators to 10 billion yen by 2010 Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. has mapped out a new medium-term business plan ending in May 2010, underscoring a boost in sales of airbag insulators up to over 10 billion yen. Overall sales at the automotive safety products business under the plan are targeted at 30 billion yen. The company intends to achieve this target by boosting sales of airbag inflators, which now account for 35 ...

News  Updated at: 2007/05/29

Nippon Kayaku to boost production of airbag inflators Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. will increase production of automotive safety related products including airbag inflators in and outside Japan. While installing additional two production lines for mass-produced inflators at the Himeji plant, three new assembly lines for micro gas generators (MGG) used in seat belt pretensioners will be constructed at a production site in the Czech Republic. Another li...

News  Updated at: 2007/05/21

Nippon Kayaku to build a plant in Mexico Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. has decided to start manufacturing automotive safety products in Mexico. It plans to establish a new company, tentatively named as Kayaku Safety Systems de Mexico (KSM), as early as the end of May to start mass-producing micro gas generators (MGG) used for seatbelt pretensioners as early as 2008. LifeSparc Inc., the company's wholly-owned manufacturing subsidiary in Hollister, ...

News  Updated at: 2007/05/10

Nippon Kayaku plans to boost sales to 200 billion yen by 2010 Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. will soon establish a new business plan for the next three-year period, under which it will aim to boost its annual revenue to 200 billion yen by the fiscal year ending in May 2010. The company intends to achieve this target by largely increasing sales at the Safety Systems Division and Electronic Materials Division. It also plans to increase operating income ma...

News  Updated at: 2007/01/18

Nippon Kayaku to install the latest production facilities at its U.S. plant for safety system parts Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. will install the state of the art facilities to produce automotive safety system parts at its U.S. plant as early as the end of this month, with a total investment of approx. 1 billion yen. With surging orders from local Japanese suppliers, the company has increased production by a labor-intensive method, which has raised la...

News  Updated at: 2007/01/12

Nippon Kayaku's Czech subsidiary to purchase an Austrian firm Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. announced that Indet Safety Systems a.s. (ISS), its wholly owned subsidiary in Vsetin, Czech Republic, will purchase assets of the automotive safety business of Hirschmann Automotive GmbH (HRW), Austria, that is, the business right to manufacture and sell micro gas generators used for seatbelt pretensioners, machinery and equipment, patents and know-how. The HR...

News  Updated at: 2006/12/09