UNIPRES Corporation

Company Profile

■URL

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

■Address

SUN HAMADA BLDG. 5F, 1-19-20 Shin-Yokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Pref., 222-0033 Japan

Business Overview

-Major manufacturer of stamped and machine parts, operating in three areas of the automotive sector: body stamped parts, transmission parts, plastic/resin parts.

-Sales to Nissan made up 74.6% of the Company's overall sales (FY ended March 2023).

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 (%)
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account)	16.2
Nippon Steel Corporation	15.0
Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc.	9.8
CEB LUX-ORBIS SICAV	5.1
Custody Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account)	4.4
Custody Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Corporate investment fund)	2.3
SSBTC 505001	1.9
DFA INTL SMALL CAP VALUE PORTFOLIO	1.8
Individual stockholder	1.3
Total	59.6

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Products

Car Body Products
Upper car body parts
-Hoods

Hood lock strikers

-Roofs

Reinforced roofs
Front roof rails
Bow roofs
Bow roof center
Rear roof rails

-Side roofs

Reinforced roof side outer
Braced roof rail outer

-Front pillars

Reinforced front pillar hinge front
Front pillar inner upper

-Center pillars

Reinforced center pillars
Center pillar inner

-Rear pillars

Reinforced rear pillar inner
Rear pillar inner

-Side sills (Outer)

Reinforced sills outer
Reinforced sills outer rear

-Parshelf

Waist and parshelf
Parshelf side
Reinforced child seat anchor

-Parts near the trunks

Extension rear fenders
Base assembly rear combination lamps
Rear panel upper

-Guard bars

Front door guard bars
Rear door guard bars

-Trunks

Trunk lid hinge reinforcement
Trunk lid lock reinforcement

Lower car body parts
-Front side members

Front side members
Stiffener front side members
Extension front side member rear

-Hoodledges

Reinforced hoodledges
Hoodledges lower rear

-Cowl tops

Cowl tops front
Cowl tops center
Extension cowl top

-Dashes

Member dashes lower cross

-Dash sides

Dash sides

-Tunnels

Reinforced transmission controllers
Member assembly floor center

-Side sills (Inner)

Sill inner

-Cross members

Second cross members
Third cross members
Rear seat cross members
Extension rear floor front

-Wheel houses

Reinforced rear wheel house inner
Rear wheel house inner
Bracket shock absorber mounting
Rear seat back side supports

-Rear side members

Rear side members
Rear center cross members

Bumper parts
-Reinforced front bumpers
-Stay assembly front bumpers
-Reinforced rear bumpers

Steering members
-Steering members
-Instrument stays

Fuel tanks
-Fuel tanks
-Filler tubes

Transmission Products
Torque converters
-Converter covers
-Turbine shells
-Turbine cores
-Turbine blades
-Impeller shells
-Impeller cores
-Impeller blades

Clutch packs
-Clutch drums
-Clutch hubs
-Retaining plates
-Driven plates

Carrier packs
-Carrier complete planetaries
-Carrier plates
-Carrier bases

Others
-Shell connectors
-Piston retainers
-Internal plates
-Gear parking devices
-Pawl parking devices
-Piston plungers
-Piston cylinders
-Oil pans
-Lever shift forks
-Plate guides

Plastic-pressed Products
Car body parts
-Radiator core supports

Interior parts
-Trunk trims
-Finisher rear parshelf

Exterior parts
-Battery trays
-Front air guides
-Protector front fenders
-Front mud guards
-Liner front fenders
-Protector mud flaps
-Front bumper energy absorbers
-Splash guards
-Front under covers
-Engine under covers
-Floor under covers
-Rear floor covers
-Rear diffusers
-Closing rear bumpers
-Protector fuel tanks
-Radiator covers
-Hoodledge covers

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History

Mar. 1945	With capital of 180,000 yen, established Yamakawa Bankin Kogyo as a company specializing in the processing of stamped sheet metal.
Oct. 1946	Began business with Nissan, to manufacture general stamped components for automobiles.
Jun. 1953	Moved headquarters and the plant to Gomishima, Fuji-shi, Shizuoka Pref. from Ohmiya, Fujinomiya-shi, Shizuoka Pref.
Mar. 1955	Began business with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.
Mar. 1961	Renamed as Yamakawa Industries Inc. from Yamakawa Bankin Kogyo.
Apr. 1961	Established the Yokohama Plant in Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Pref. (currently the Kanagawa Plant)
Oct. 1964	Established Oppama Plant in Natsushimacho, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa Pref. (currently the Kanagawa Plant)
Dec. 1970	Established the Mooka Plant in Matsuyamacho, Mooka-shi, Tochigi Pref.
Jan. 1976	Established Katsuyama Press Kogyo (currently Unipres Kyushu Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary) in Katsuyamacho, Miyako-gun, Fukuoka Pref. as the product process manufacturer for the NISSAN Kyushu Plant.
Mar. 1995	Established Yamakawa Manufacturing de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (currently Unipres Mexicana, S.A. de C.V., as a consolidated subsidiary. hereafter called Unipres Mexico) in San Francisco de Los Romo, Aguasquarientes, Mexico.
Apr. 1999	Merged and took over Nissan Yamato Engineering Ltd. (currently Unipres UK Limited), a subsidiary, and hereafter called Unipres England which was established in October 1986 in Sunderland, U.K.
Apr. 1999	Merged with Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd., located in Shimotsuruma, Yamato-shi, and changed the company name to Unipres Corporation from Yamakawa INDUSTRIES INC.
Jan. 2002	Set up Unipres Southeast U.S.A Inc. (UPSA), as a consolidated company, in Forest, Mississippi, USA.
Jul. 2002	Established Unipres Europe SAS in Neuilly sur Seine, France.
Jan. 2003	Established UM Corporation, SAS in Pas de Calais, France.
Jul. 2003	Established Unipres North America, Inc. in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. (currently a consolidated subsidiary)
Oct. 2003	Cosmo Techno Corporation (a subsidiary of the Company) gained 100% of the voting rights of Sotoyama Kogyo Co., Ltd., which is located in Fuji City, Shizuoka Pref.
Oct. 2003	Established Unipres Guangzhou Corporation in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. (Now a consolidated subsidiary)
Feb. 2004	Listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Mar. 2004	Acquired ISO14001:1996.
May 2004	Moved headquarters to Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Apr. 2005	YSM and Unipres Hiroshima merged, becoming Unipres Mold Corp.
Sep. 2005	Listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Sep. 2006	Established a tool plant at Unipress Guangzhou Corporation.
Oct. 2008	Established a joint venture, Unipres India Private Limited, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India with Marubeni Corporation. The new company is a consolidated subsidiary.
Jul. 2009	Established a non-consolidated subsidiary, Unipres (Thailand) Co., Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand.
Oct. 2009	Established Unipres Precision Guangzhou Corporation in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. The new company is a joint venture with Unipres Guangzhou Corporation and a consolidated subsidiary.
Jun. 2010	Made Unipres Kyushu Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary after acquiring additional shares from Mitsuike Corporation.
Apr. 2011	Constructed Unipres R&D Co., Ltd. in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Jul. 2011	Established PT. Unipres Indonesia, a consolidated subsidiary, in West Java.
Feb. 2012	Established Unipres (China) Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary, in Ghangzhou, China.
May 2012	Established Unipres Zhengzhou Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Unipres China, in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China.
Jun. 2013	Acquired shares in MA Automotive Brasil Ltda., turning it into an affiliated company.
Jan. 2014	Established Unipres Russia LLC in Russia.
Jan. 2014	Established Unipres Sunrise Corporation as 3 company's joint venture.
Jul. 2014	Established transmission-parts production plant at Unipress Mexico.
Jul. 2014	Established Unipress Alabama, Inc. in Steele, Alabama in the U.S.
Oct. 2014	Unipress Alabama took over the sheet-metal business from Yachiyo Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC, which is Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.'s U.S. subsidiary.
May 2015	Announced an expansion of capital and business alliance with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation.
Apr. 2017	Established Dongfeng Unipres Hot Stamping Corporation in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, with Unipres (China) Corporation and Dongfeng (Wuhan) Industrial Co., Ltd. (currently equity-method affiliate)
Jun. 2019	Acquired additional stock shares in UM Corporation from MA Automotive, turning the company into a subsidiary.
Aug. 2019	Established Unipres Wuhan Corporation in Wuhan, Hubei Province; as Unipres China’s wholly owned, consolidated subsidiary in China.
Apr. 2022	Moved to the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange due to the TSE's reorganization