We Are Now Marking Our 50th Year Since Our Establishment as a Stock Company!
Our company was first founded on January 1, 1955, and was incorporated as a stock company on September 1, 1971.
And so, starting on the 1st of this month, we are commemorating our 50th year as a stock company.
The reason we have been able to stay in business all these long years is the assistance of all of our stakeholders, for which we are very grateful.
The above photo was taken around June 1955, very soon after our company’s founding, and is the oldest extant example of a photo that shows how our company looked back then.
* The person in the middle, back row, in the photo is our founder, Itsuso Morikawa, and the woman to the right is his wife, Rokue.The person on the far right at the front is our previous president, Hidenori Morikawa (in his first year of junior high school at the time).
Our original business—the manufacture of gauges—currently accounts for less than 1% of our sales. At present, by applying precision finishing technology, our main business has shifted to the manufacture of engine equipment for ships and the design and manufacture of hydraulic equipment.
In addition, we have recently been strengthening our pre-processing machining in order to further improve our precision finishing technology. As a result, we are receiving more orders for machining alone, not including finishing and assembly, and the ratio of our business is changing.
Our first job after going into business was engraving of temple bells (the actual product is currently on exhibit in the office of our No. 2 Factory),
and while it is not widely known, from the time of our founding until our gauge manufacturing took off, there was a period in which we developed and sold choppers (grinding machines) and massage machines, and even after that we tried a wide range of products, from food processors to robots that mimic people.
Not only sticking to the current status, we will respond to market and customer requests as much as possible, even if doing so differs slightly from our core business: that spirit of constant trial is surely the true heart of our company.
We will continue to strive forward, based on our corporate philosophy of “Taking pride in responding by hook or by crook, gaining achievement through action,” in the way that makes our company unique.
We at Morikawa Gauge Works hope that we can rely on your continued patronage!