F.C.C. Co., Ltd.

Company Profile

■URL

https://www.fcc-net.co.jp/en/

■Address

7000-36 Hosoecho Nakagawa, Kita-ku, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken 431-1304 Japann

Business Overview

-A member of Honda group, manufacturing and selling automobile clutches for manual or automatic transmissions and motorcycle clutches. According to the Company, it has the largest share in the world in the motorcycle clutch market.

‐The percentage of automobile clutches in its total sales was 53.7% in the fiscal year that ended in March 2023.

-The percentage of sales outside Japan was 88.6% in the fiscal year that ended in March 2023.

ーManufacturer conducting seamless business operations, from developing friction materials up to assembling clutches. It has 22 production plants outside Japan, in 10 different countries.

Shareholders

From April 2022, moved to the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (As of Mar. 31, 2023)
Name or Company Name Investment Ratio (%)
Honda Motors Co., Ltd. 21.88
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account) 10.01
Y.A. Company, Ltd. 5.14
SMBC Trust Bank Ltd. (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Retirement Benefits Trust Account)  4.99
The Custody Bank of Japan (Trust Account) 4.78
Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. Retirement Trust Fund; Mizuho Bank Mizuho Bank Re-trust Trustee; The Custody Bank of Japan 2.64
Individual Shareholder 2.62
FCC Stock Ownership Plan 1.80
BNY GCM CLIENT ACCOUNT JPRD AC ISG(FE-AC) 1.27
JP MORGAN CHASE BANK 385781 0.92
Total 56.05

Products

Automobiles Clutches
Automatic transmission clutches
-FR 10 speed automatic transmission clutch
-FF 9 speed automatic transmission clutch
-FF 8 speed automatic transmission clutch
-FR 6 speed automatic transmission clutch

Clutches for Hybrid Vehicle
-Overdrive clutch for HV
-Twin motor drive unit

Clutches for CVT
-Forward clutch/Reverse brake disk
-Forward / Reverse clutch for light-engine vehicles
-Wet-type friction disks

Lock-up clutches
-Multi disk lock-up clutch
-Twin damper for lock-up clutch
-Single disk lock-up clutch

Manual transmission clutches
-Dry single disk clutch
-Dry twin disk clutch

Differential
-Differential clutch for AWD
-Clutch for torque distribution unit
-Differential unit
-FCCTRAC limited slip differential

History

Jun. 1939 Established as Fuji Lite Industries Co., Ltd. in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Pref..
Began manufacturing clutch plates, gears and other synthetic resin products by means of press molding using bakelite as the principal raw material.
Mar. 1943 Changed trade name to Fuji Chemical Co., Ltd..
Feb. 1982 Established Kyushu Fuji Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. (now Kyushu F.F.C. Co., Ltd.) in Shimomashiki-gun, Kumamoto Pref..
July. 1984 Changed trade name to F.C.C. Co., Ltd.
Dec. 1994 Establishes Chengdu Jianghua F.C.C. Clutches Co., Ltd. in Sichuan Province, China.
Mar. 1995 Establishes Chu's F.C.C. Co., Ltd. (Shanghai) in Shanghai, China.
Sep. 1995 Established a subsidiary, FCC (Europe) Limited in Milton Kings, UK
Apr. 1997 Established an affiliated company, FCC Rico Limited, in India.
Nov. 1998 Established a subsidiary, FCC Do Brazil Limited, in Amazonas, Federal Republic of Brazil.
Nov. 2000 Established FCC (North Carolina), INC. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) in North Carolina, U.S.A.
Dec. 2000 Developed a new production method, called "the segment manufacturing process," for lock-up clutches used for AT vehicles.
Raised the raw material yield rate to 70-80%.
Started production in Name of factory and in the American subsidiary JTEC.
Apr. 2001 Established PT. FCC Indonesia in Karawang, Indonesia.
Dec. 2002 Established FCC (North America), Inc. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) and FCC (Indiana), Inc. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) in Indiana, US.
Feb. 2003 Listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
May 2003 Established F.C.C. (Adams) Ltd. L.L.C (now the Company's consolidated subsidiary) in Indiana, U.S.A.
Mar. 2004 Listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Jun. 2005 Turned FCC (Taiwan) Co., Ltd. into its local subsidiary. It had previously been a consolidated company)
Nov. 2005 Established FCC (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. (a consolidated subsidiary) in Hanoi, Vietnam
Jan. 2006 Established FCC Foshan Co., Ltd. (a consolidated subsidiary) in Canton, China
Nov. 2010 Acquired stock shares in Tohoku Chemical Industries, Ltd. located in Shinagawa Ward Tokyo, making the company a wholly owned and consolidated subsidiary.
Sep. 2012 Established F.C.C. (China) Investment Co., Ltd., currently a consolidated subsidiary, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China.
Dec. 2012 Liquidated FCC (Europe) Ltd.
Feb. 2013 Established FCC Seojin Co., Ltd. in Siheung , Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
Jun. 2013 Established FCC Automotive Parts de Mexico S.A. de C.V. in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Nov. 2014 Established FCC Clutch India Private Ltd. in Haryana, India.
Dec. 2014 Acquired 100% of the equity shares in FCC Rico Ltd. (currently FCC India Manufacturing Private Ltd. a consolidated subsidiary).
Nov. 2015 FCC Clutch India Private Ltd. absorbed the FCC India Manufacturing Private Ltd.
Sep. 2017 Acquired 100% shares of Flint Co., Ltd. (currently consolidated subsidiary)
Dec. 2018 Transferred shares of Tohoku Chemicals Industries, Ltd.
Apr. 2022 Moved from the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange to the Prime Market due to the TSE's reorganization.
Nov. 2022 Completed liquidation of FCC Seojin Co., Ltd.

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