Strengthening the competitiveness of our core aluminum electrolytic capacitor business
First written in FY2016. 20 of 27 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2018-Q2. Latest entry: FY2026.
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- FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「Our group is strengthening production capacity for large aluminum electrolytic capacitors, primarily for power supplies used in AI servers, while continuing development and capacity expansion investment for high-capacity, high-output hybrid capacitors. In addition, it is pursuing development of next-generation high-capacity top foil to strengthen competitiveness.」
To strengthen the competitiveness of its core capacitor business, the company has expanded its initiatives to include strengthening production capacity for large products for AI servers, developing and investing in increased production of high-capacity, high-output hybrid capacitors, and developing next-generation high-capacity top foil. - FY2026-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「On the production side, the company expanded production capacity for large aluminum electrolytic capacitors and hybrid capacitors and established a stable supply system. It also developed an optimal-location production system using production sites in ASEAN and worked to address US tariff policies.」
Regarding efforts to strengthen the competitiveness of its core capacitor business, the company is progressing with capacity expansion for large aluminum electrolytic capacitors and hybrid capacitors and the development of an optimal-location production system using ASEAN sites. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「On the production side, the company built a new manufacturing building for hybrid capacitors at the Miyagi Plant of Chemi-Con East Japan Corporation and began production in October of the same year. It also continued advancing its smart-factory initiatives, including by partially automating quality-control processes for products and materials to reduce quality defects caused by human error.」
The company began production at the new hybrid capacitor manufacturing building at the Miyagi Plant and advanced partial automation of quality-control processes for products and materials. The disclosure reports concrete progress in expanding production capacity and automating quality processes. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「On the production side, the company built a new manufacturing building dedicated to hybrid capacitors at the Miyagi Plant of Chemi-Con East Japan Corporation and began production in October. It also expanded the hybrid capacitor manufacturing line at Taiwan Jiamei Co., Ltd., strengthening its production system for highly profitable products.」
To strengthen the competitiveness of its core capacitor business, the company began production at the new manufacturing building at the Miyagi Plant and expanded the hybrid capacitor manufacturing line at its Taiwan site. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, to improve profitability, the company ended production of certain products that had been driving up costs and promoted a shift to products with higher production efficiency.」
To strengthen the competitiveness and profitability of its core business, the company has moved beyond its previous productivity improvement and value-enhancement initiatives to end production of certain products and shift to products with higher production efficiency. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「On the production side, the company has worked to expand capacity for high-profit, high-value-added products, including by beginning construction of a new manufacturing building at the Miyagi Plant of Chemi-Con East Japan Corporation to increase hybrid capacitor production capacity.」
The company continues to report the expansion of hybrid capacitor production capacity and the start of construction of a new manufacturing building at the Miyagi Plant. No new progress is indicated. - FY2024-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「To expand production capacity for hybrid capacitors, the company has worked to increase capacity for high-profit, high-value-added products, including by beginning construction of a new manufacturing building at the Miyagi Plant of Chemi-Con East Japan Corporation.」
Regarding increased production capacity for high-profit, high-value-added products, the company reports the concrete progress of beginning construction of a new manufacturing building at Chemi-Con East Japan's Miyagi Plant. - FY2024-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「The company is implementing various priority measures to achieve its management objectives, including developing high-value-added new products that meet customers' latent needs and rationalizing and reducing labor requirements in its production system through initiatives such as its smart-factory concept.」
As measures under the Tenth Medium-Term Management Plan to improve the competitiveness and profitability of its core business, the company continues to develop high-value-added products and improve productivity and reduce fixed costs through smart-factory initiatives, rationalization and labor-saving measures. - FY2023AdvancedAnnual report
「As part of its structural reforms, the company pursued thorough rationalization of production processes by adopting smart-factory technologies and promoting TPM (Total Productive Management) activities. In addition to consolidating and eliminating low-margin, small-lot products, it pursued cost reductions through integrated efforts across manufacturing, sales and engineering, including reviews of product designs and the materials used. As a result, productivity indicators targeted by the structural reforms, including OEE (overall equipment effectiveness), TEEP (total effective equipment performance) and productivity per head, improved.」
The company advanced smart-factory initiatives, TPM activities, the consolidation and elimination of small-lot products, and design and material reviews, reporting improvements in productivity indicators as the results of its structural reforms. - FY2023-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Due in part to increased demand for automotive and industrial machinery-related products, net sales were ¥114,835 million, up 16.5% year on year, while segment profit was ¥8,321 million, up 45.7% year on year.」
Demand for automotive and industrial machinery-related products increased in the core capacitor business, resulting in net sales and segment profit exceeding the same period of the previous year. Segment profit increased 45.7% year on year. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「On the production side, as part of its smart-factory initiatives, the company began testing the introduction of an MES (manufacturing execution system) and proceeded with preparations for the full-scale introduction of a system that centrally manages equipment operating status based on information collected from manufacturing processes.」
The company reports concrete progress on its smart-factory initiatives, namely the start of MES implementation testing. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「As part of its structural reforms, the company worked to reduce fixed costs through productivity improvements, including rationalization and labor-saving measures aimed at adopting smart-factory technologies. In its product planning reforms, it also strengthened the framework for creating new business seeds, including by newly establishing a New Business Promotion Office.」
As structural reforms to improve the competitiveness and profitability of its core business, the company continues to improve productivity and reduce fixed costs through smart-factory initiatives, rationalization and labor-saving measures. - FY2022AdvancedAnnual report
「As part of its structural reforms, the company promoted the partial automation of production processes and other measures as part of its smart-factory initiatives at production sites, and increased production without adding personnel or equipment by improving facility utilization.」
The company implemented smart-factory initiatives and partial automation of production processes, recording the operational result of increased production without additional personnel or equipment. - FY2022-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「As part of its structural reforms, the company continued improving productivity by reducing fixed costs, including personnel expenses, through an early retirement incentive program implemented in fiscal 2020, as well as by adopting smart-factory technologies and improving the operating rate of production equipment for electrode foil used in aluminum electrolytic capacitors. Due in part to increased demand for automotive and industrial machinery-related products, primarily in China and other parts of Asia, net sales were ¥98,537 million, up 28.8% year on year, while segment profit was ¥5,709 million, up 424.0% year on year.」
The company continued its structural reforms and productivity improvement initiatives. For the first 3 quarters, the capacitor business recorded net sales of ¥98,537 million, up 28.8% year on year, and segment profit of ¥5,709 million, up 424.0%. - FY2022-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「As part of its structural reforms, the company continued improving productivity by reducing fixed costs, including personnel expenses, through an early retirement incentive program implemented in fiscal 2020, as well as by adopting smart-factory technologies and improving the operating rate of production equipment for electrode foil used in aluminum electrolytic capacitors. Due in part to increased demand for automotive and industrial machinery-related products, primarily in China and other parts of Asia, net sales were ¥64,056 million, up 28.5% year on year, while segment profit was ¥3,249 million, compared with a segment loss of ¥16 million in the same period of the previous year.」
As measures to strengthen the competitiveness of its core business, the company pursued productivity improvements through smart-factory initiatives and higher utilization of electrode-foil production equipment, and the capacitor business improved from a segment loss in the same period of the previous year to a profit of ¥3,249 million. - FY2022-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Due in part to increased demand for automotive and industrial machinery-related products, primarily in China and other parts of Asia, net sales were ¥32,199 million, up 41.9% year on year, while segment profit was ¥1,712 million, compared with a segment loss of ¥422 million in the same period of the previous year.」
In the capacitor business, net sales increased 41.9% year on year against a backdrop of stronger demand for automotive and industrial machinery-related products, and segment results improved from a loss of ¥422 million in the same period of the previous year to a profit of ¥1,712 million. - FY2021AdvancedAnnual report
「As part of its structural reforms, the company began optimizing its workforce through an early retirement incentive program and improving operational efficiency by reorganizing domestic production sites. It also optimized the balance between in-house production and external procurement of electrode foil for aluminum electrolytic capacitors and established a system to maximize the production capacity of existing facilities, while seeking to improve capital efficiency by curbing investment in new facilities.」
The company is making concrete progress on an early retirement program, the reorganization of domestic production sites, optimization of the balance between in-house production and external procurement of electrode foil, and curbing investment in new facilities. - FY2021-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Although demand increased in communications-related markets, including for data-center servers, demand in industrial machinery-related markets remained sluggish due in part to restrained capital investment amid declining corporate earnings. As a result, net sales were ¥76,532 million, down 5.8% year on year, while segment profit was ¥1,089 million, compared with a segment loss of ¥2,507 million in the same period of the previous year, reflecting thorough cost reductions through productivity improvements from advancing structural reforms and reductions in various expenses.」
Continued cost reductions, including productivity improvements through structural reforms and reductions in various expenses, improved the capacitor business segment from a loss of ¥2,507 million in the same period of the previous year to a profit of ¥1,089 million. - FY2021-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「We also worked to improve productivity through the reorganization of domestic production sites and other measures, while thoroughly pursuing cost reductions by curbing capital investment and reducing various expenses.」
In addition to the previous plan to restructure overseas production and maintain and improve domestic facilities, the company has identified the reorganization of domestic production sites as an implementation policy and is pursuing cost reductions, including curbing capital investment and reducing various expenses. - FY2021-Q1Overseas production restructuring and domestic capital investment plans specifiedAnnual report
「Under the Ninth Medium-Term Management Plan, which began in fiscal 2020, our group plans to restructure its overseas production system and make capital investments in Japan focused primarily on maintaining and improving existing facilities, as well as rationalization investments.」
In addition to productivity improvements and cost reductions, the Ninth Medium-Term Management Plan specifically identifies the restructuring of overseas production and the maintenance, improvement and rationalization investment in existing domestic facilities as measures on the capital investment front. - FY2020-Q2RaisedAnnual report
「We also implemented various initiatives to reduce selling, general and administrative expenses and improve profitability, including cutting fixed costs, improving the efficiency of indirect functions, and reducing logistics costs through supply chain improvements.」
In addition to the previous focus on productivity improvements and cost reductions, the scope of initiatives has been expanded to include SG&A reductions targeting fixed costs, indirect functions and the supply chain. - FY2018RaisedAnnual report
「As part of strengthening our earnings structure, we implemented production and quality support for overseas production sites and worked to strengthen competitiveness by expanding the ratio of overseas production.」
In addition to the previous focus on productivity improvements and cost reductions, the Company explicitly identified production and quality support for overseas production sites and expansion of the overseas production ratio as measures to strengthen competitiveness. - FY2018-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Effective 1 April 2017, we reorganized our subsidiaries by merging our consolidated subsidiaries Chemi-Con Fukushima Co., Ltd. with Fukushima Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd., and Chemi-Con Yamagata Co., Ltd. with Chemi-Con Yonezawa Co., Ltd. We advanced cost competitiveness by improving the production structure and reducing costs through greater efficiency in indirect functions.」
The Company reorganized its subsidiaries and is strengthening cost competitiveness through improvements to the production structure, greater efficiency in indirect functions and cost reductions. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「To further strengthen the competitiveness of our core aluminum electrolytic capacitor business, we are promoting higher productivity at overseas plants and thorough cost reductions through collaboration among the product development, production engineering and materials divisions.」
The Company has positioned higher productivity at overseas plants and cross-functional cost reductions as measures to strengthen the competitiveness of its core business.