Fukoku Corp.

CORPORATE HISTORY

July 1972

Established Fukoku Tsusho Co.,Ltd.

July 1974

Change the company name to Fukoku Corp.

April 1977

Started developing, manufacturing and sales of automatic weld bead grinding machine

November 1978

Started manufacturing and sales of portable beveling machine BCM-12

August 1979

Started developing a large sized beveling machine

April 1980

Started manufacturing and sales of a large sized beveling machine, BCM-25

July 1980

Participated in establishing Nihon Vacuum Lift, a joint venture company for the purpose of manufacture and sales of non power system Vacuum Lift from VACU-LIFT in Germany

April 1981

Started manufacturing and sales of Serrated Wheel, the disc type sander, under the corporation with Miyuki Sangyo. It was very first time to sell in Japan.

March 1982

Established the agent in US, EU and some other countries in Southeast Asia to start to export portable beveling machine

February 1983

Developed all positioned automatic welding equipment for aluminum ball tank of Liquid Natural Gas(LNG) tank, and started to export it to major shipyard in Korea and some other countries in EU

April 1994

To make BCM more compact, made all the models changed and released as BCM Series of BCM-mini, BCM-mini2, BCM-12N and BCM-16N

July 2008

Started to develop Quick Vacuum Lift which is condensed Fukoku's Vacuum Lift technology

August 2009

1.Established the business partnership agreement with VACU-LIFT in Germany in technology, manufacture and sales, customer service, maintenance and marketing. It is our first step as representative partner in Japan of VACU-LIFT who is the world leading manufacture of non power Vacuum Lift.

2.Started to manufacture and sales of a large sized beveling machine, BCM-20N.

We value customer's comment

We find customers’ comments through the maintenance the machines we sold. We value maintenance business because we can hear customers’ message from machine’s damage, life condition in overhaul. Those messages will be transmitted to the technology for newly developed machines and improvement. And then, those new products will be sent customers again. This circulation is just our maintenance business.

Research and development work contributing to next Japanese industry

Today’s industry is remarkably becoming more unique and diverse in needs than in the past. In this rapidly changing industry, we have developed with our long-term accumulated know-how. We move ahead our research and development to meet diverse needs and to contribute to next Japanese industry with our technology and developing power.

Aiming to be top maker of vacuum lifting tools

Non power system Vacuum Lift - No motive power is needed
Electric system Vacuum Lift - By safety designed pump unit
Air system Quick Vacuum Lift - Evolution model of Vacuum Lift

It is required high safety, high productivity and high workability to lift and transport the load. We have developed and expanded Non power system Vacuum Lift nationwide, and established a reliable position as Vacuum Lift maker. We also actively keep developing Electric system Vacuum Lift and Air system Quick Vacuum Lift, the new product. We will take on a further challenge aiming to be a top maker of Vacuum Lift to meet customers’ demand.