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About Company
| Establishment | April 1, 1952 |
| Capital | 12 million yen |
| Business | Manufacturing of gears for automotive mission, small precision gears, and gears for industrial machinery. |
| Representative | Jun Kikuta |
| Number of employees | 138 (As of April 2023) |
| Banks | Nagoya Bank Oe branch, Aichi Bank Dotoku branch. |
| Head Office |  |
| Head Office | Phone+81-562-57-1230 Facsimile+81-562-57-1311 |
| Obu Factory |
1-1, Hantsuki-cho, Obu, Aichi, 474-0037, Japan Phone+81-562-57-1333 Facsimile+81-562-57-1321 1-55, Hantsuki-cho, Obu, Aichi, 474-0037, Japan |
| Shinpo Second Factory | Phone+81-52-689-6886 Facsimile+81-52-603-1616 |
History
| 1952 | Kikuta Iron Factory as a limited partnership company was founded in current head offices location and started contract manufacturing of gears mainly for motorcycles and agricultural machineries. |
| 1982 | Transaction was initiated with Koritsu Limited Partnership Company (current Koritsu Co.,Ltd.). Our company was responsible for contract manufacturing of such as gear cutting processing of gears for automatic cars by Just In Time system |
| 1992 | Reorganized into Kikuta Iron Works Co., Ltd. |
| 1993 | Established the ion plating apparatus (HCD method) for PVD coating and entered the film processing business. |
| 1999 | Established Shinpo Factory |
| 2000 | Launched the development of the tooth surface grinding method. |
| 2002 | Started film processing of TiAIN film by 3rd ion plating device (API method) newly installed. |
| 2004 | Transaction was initiated with Nabtesco Corporation. Spin-off the coating contract department from Kikuta Iron Works to Kikuta Giken Co., Ltd. |
| 2005 | ISO9001 and ISO2000 certified |
| 2006 | Established Shinpo Second Factory |
| 2008 | Transaction was initiated with Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. |
| 2009 | ISO9001 and ISO2008 certified |
| 2014 | Established Arimatsu Factory |
| 2016 | ISO9001 :2015 certified |
| 2019 | Moved ISO certification body to JQA  Established Obu Factory |
| 2020 | To complete production consolidation of Obu Factory, moved equipment from Arimatsu Factory. To complete production consolidation of Obu Factory and Shinpo Second Factory, moved equipment from Shinpo Factory. |
| 2023 | Moved head office to Obu Factory. |
