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Business and Other Risks

Business and Other Risks

Among the matters concerning the situation of the business described in the financial statements and situation of accounting, the matters with the possibility to cause the important effect for the investor’s judgment are as follows.

(1) Risks Related to Dependence on Specific Business Partners

To improve the efficiency of its sales activities, the Advanex Group has undertaken a policy to raise its sales weighting to strategic customers. As a result, the earnings of major customers, their outsourcing strategies, and other factors beyond the Advanex Group’s control could have a negative impact on the Group’s earnings and financial condition.

(2) Risks Related to International Activities and Overseas Expansion

The Advanex Group holds production and sales activity in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Unanticipated changes in law or restriction, terrorism, battle action, or occurrence of epidemic in those countries might cause adverse effect to our group achievement and financial position.

(3) Risks Related to Fluctuation in Foreign Exchange Rates

In line with the Advanex Group’s international activities and overseas expansion, the Group is exposed to the following currency risks, and a substantial fluctuation in foreign exchange rates could have a negative impact on the Group’s earnings and financial condition.

  1. Increase and decrease in local currency conversion for net sales and purchase at foreign currency in exporting and importing.
  2. Loss and gain of credit and debt at foreign currency under the market value.
  3. Increase and decrease of yen currency conversion amount of foreign currency at consolidated financial statements.

(4) Risk of Natural Disasters

The main production site of the Advanex Group is Kashiwazaki Prefecture, Shimotsuke City in Tochigi Prefecture in Japan. There is a possibility that the production capacity of precision spring and precision assembly parts of our group decreases remarkably and the distribution may cause a delay when large-scale disasters occur in these regions.

(5) Risks Related to Fluctuations in Raw Material Prices

There is a possibility of leading to an increase in the cost of manufacturing of the Advanex Group and the deterioration of the profit, if it is difficult to reflect material cost increase to the sales price under the environment of fierce price competition with the competitors when the price of metal and plastic material such as stainless and copper is increased by the increase of demand for a resource such as iron and oil or political change of those producing countries.

(6) Risks Related to Post-Employment Benefit Obligations

Advanex moved to defined contribution pension system from approved retirement annuity system as of November 1, 2011. Post-employment benefit obligations for employees and provisions for post-employment benefit obligations are calculated based on basic rates and prerequisite condition in actuarial calculations, which include discount rates and the expected return on pension assets. These calculations also reflect past performance in the management of pension assets. Deterioration in discount rates or performance in pension assets management could have a negative impact on the Group’s earnings and financial condition.

Asset Performance

Asset Performance

*1 Shareholder’s equity = Net asset – Warrants – Minority interest
*2 Equity ratio = Shareholder’s equity / Total Assets
*3 D/E ratio = Interest-bearing Debt / Shareholder’s equity
*4 ROE = Net Income / Shareholder’s equity
*5 ROA = Ordinary Income / Total Assets

Transition of Total Assets and Shareholder’s equity and Equity ratio

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Transition of Interest-bearing Debt and D/E ratio

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Top Messages

Top Messages

Advanex’s management philosophy is to become a company of value to society by creating new value. In other words, we must fulfill not only the actual needs of societies and users, but also latent demands (undiscovered needs that exist at the root) by making full use of Advanex’s know-how in precision metal processing, skilled craftsmanship, and proposal-based sales. We also aim to contribute to the sustainability of society by creating new value.

Our medium-term goal is to become a leading company in precision metal processing. A leading company means “the world’s largest company that possesses unique technologies and realizes all kinds of challenges.” We will develop our management philosophy worldwide by extending our long-established “artisan’s technology” to our global network, which is the most extensive in the precision metal processing industry.

September 24, 2020

Seiya Kato
Representative Director, President
Advanex Inc.

Company Outline

Company Outline

Company name Advanex Inc.
Established November 1946
Capital 100million yen
Address Tabata-Asuka Tower, 6-1-1 Tabata, Kitaku, Tokyo 114-8581, Japan
Representative Eitaro Asada, Representative Director, Chairman and CEO
Outline of Business The manufacture and sale of precision springs.
Number of employees Consolidated: 1,870
Non-consolidated: 354 (as of March 31, 2025)
Net sales Consolidated: 28,532 million yen
Non-consolidated: 10,245 million yen (April 1, 2023- March 31, 2025)
Stock listing Standard Division of Tokyo Stock Exchange (stock code: 5998)
Number of Consolidated subsidiaries 14. Asia 10, North America 2, Europe 2
Contact E-mail: info@advanex.co.jp

Phone number: (03) 6853-0111
Administration Department

Company History

Company History

April 1930 Mr. Inokichi Kato, who was our first president, founded the spring factory in 1 Sakai, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo.
November 1946 Incorporated as KATO SPRING WORKS CO., LTD. and founded the head factory in Sekimachi, Nerima-ku, Tokyo.
December 1963 Moved the head factory to 1-1-3 Tabata, Kita-ku. (new factory: 2,224m2)
May 1964 Listed on Second section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
May 1971 Established KATO SPRING OF CALIFORNIA,INC. (the present Advanex Americas,Inc.)
November 1976 Established the head factory in Kashiwazaki, Niigata.
January 1978 Established KATO SPRING (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (the present Advanex (Singapore) Pte.Ltd.)
March 1986 Established a new factory in Onomachi, Fukushima. (Closed in 6/2009)
September 1988 Established KATO PRECISION (U.K.) LIMITED
October 1993 Purchased SENIOR ENTEX LTD and changes its name to KATO-ENTEX LIMITED
August 1994 Established KATO PRECISION (HONG KONG) LIMITED (the present Advanex (Hong Kong) Ltd.)
July 1996 Moved the Headquarter to 6-1-1 Tabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo.
July 1996 Established Strawberry Corporation
January 1998 Established KATO SPRING (THAILAND) LTD. (the present Advanex (Thailand) Ltd.)
January 2001 Established KATO SPRING (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD. (the present Advanex (Shanghai) Inc.)
July 2001 Changed the corporate name to ADVANEX INC.
October 2001 Strawberry Corporation was listed on JASDAQ. (Delisted in 10/2011)
December 2002 Established ADVANEX PRECISION COMPONENTS (DONGGUAN) CO., LTD. (the present Advanex (Dongguan) Inc.)
January 2003 Established ADVANEX PRECISION COMPONENTS (DALIAN) CO., LTD. (the present Advanex (Dalian) Inc.)
March 2004 Listed on first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
June, 2006 Established KATO SPRING (VIETNAM) LTD. (the present Advanex (Vietnam) Ltd.)
October 2007 Acquired Daiichi Kasei Holdings Co., Ltd. (100%)
October 2008 Established a new factory in Nakatsu, Oita.
May 2009 Established a new factory in Minamitsugaru, Aomori.
October 2010 KATO PRECISION (U.K.) LIMITED and KATO-ENTEX LIMITED merged and changed to Advanex Europe Ltd.
February 2012 Strawberry Corporation changed its name to Advanex Motion Design Inc.
January 2013 The establishment of a subsidiary in Changzhou
April 2014 Funabashi Electronics Co.,Ltd. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanex Inc.
Mar 2015 Advanex Inc. transferred 100% of its stock in Daiichi Kasei Holdings Co., Ltd., to Abico Group of Taiwan
Mar 2015 Established factories in Chiba and Miyagi
Jan 2016 Established a new factory in Saitama
Feb 2016 Established Advanex Deutschland GmbH.
Oct 2016 Acquired Electronic Stamping Corporation’s Business
Dec 2016 Acquired PT. Yamakou Indonesia.(100%)
Sep 2017 Established Advanex (India) Private Limited.
Nov 2017 Established Advanex Czech Republic s.r.o.
Oct 2018 Established Advanex de Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.

Headquarters and Factories

Headquarters and Factories

Headquarters

  • Asuka Tower Bldg. 6-1-1 Tabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-8581, Japan
  • TEL:+81-3-3822-5860
  • Map
  • 2 minutes walk from the North Exit of JR Tabata Station.

Niigata Factory

  • 1355 Nishioki, Fujii, Kashiwazaki-shi, Niigata, 945-0193
  • TEL:+81-257-24-2141 FAX:+81-257-23-8193
  • Map
  • 5 minutes by car from the Exit of Kashiwazaki I.C. on Hokuriku Expressway.
    10 minutes by taxi from Kashiwazaki Station on JR Shinetsu-honsen / Echigosen line.

Saitama Factory

  • 156-1, Shimonodo, Honjo, Saitama, 367-0063
  • TEL:+81-495-27-5600 FAX:+81-495-27-5620
  • Map
  • 10 minutes by car from the Exit of Honjo-Kodama I.C. on Kanetsu Expresway.
    15 minutes walk after getting off at Jinbohara station on JR Takasaki line.
    15 minutes by taxi from Honjo-Waseda station on JR Joetsu Shinkansen line.

Oita Factory

  • 850 Ueno, Nakatsu-shi, Oita, 879-0103, Japan
  • TEL:+81-979-33-1884 FAX:+81-979-33-1887
  • Map
  • 10 minutes by car heading for Nakatsu from the exit of Usa I.C. on Usabeppu expressway.
    7 minutes by taxi from JR Imazu station, 25 minutes by taxi from JR Nakatsu station on Nippo-Honsen.
    5 minutes walk after getting off at Tobinaga bus stop by limousine bus for Nakatsu station departing from Oita airport.(1hour 10 minutes from Oita airport)

Aomori Factory

  • 56-4 Higashinakano, Maedayashiki, Inakadatemura, Minamitsugaru-gun, Aomori, 038-1144, Japan
  • TEL:+81-172-58-3284 FAX:+81-172-58-3561
  • Map
  • 10 minutes by car from the Exit of Kuroishi I.C. on Tohoku Expressway.
    15 minutes by taxi from Hirosaki Station on JR Ouu-honsen line.
    30 minutes by taxi from Aomori airport.

Chiba Factory

  • 2-10-1, Sakae-machi, Funabashi-shi, Chiba, 273-0018, Japan
  • TEL:+81-47-431-5072 FAX:+81-47-433-2688
  • Map
  • 10 minutes by car from the Exit of Ichikawa I.C. on Minami-kanto Expressway.
    10 minutes by car from the Exit of Funabashi I.C. on Keiyo Expressway.
    15 minutes by taxi from Futamatashimmachi Station on JR Keiyo line
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