Nippon Thompson Co. Ltd. is a specialist in the manufacture and sale of needle roller bearings and linear motion products!
History
Founded on 1950, the company has accumulated numerous proprietary technologies and a wealth of experience that it uses to develop innovative products. Nippon Thompson becomes an established leader in three specialties: needle roller bearings, linear motion products and mechatronic products. Marketed under the IKO brand, these products have established a world-wide reputation for high quality and originality.
Corporate Philosophy
Contribute to Society as "an R&D-Oriented Company"
Nippon Thompson intends to keep growing as a socially trusted manufacturer and supplier of important machine components, particularly bearings and bearing-related devices, and thus contributing to international communities.
To achieve this goal, Nippon Thompson seeks originality and teamwork in its R&D efforts to develop high-value-added products that best serve the needs of customers.
Products
Since becoming Japan’s first maker of needle roller bearings in 1959, Nippon Thompson has established a reputation as an innovative producer of high-quality, precision bearing products. Using the expertise and technology through years of experience producing needle roller bearings, they have developed a line of motion rolling guides units that combine carriages and track rails. Since the introduction of their first linear motion rolling guide unit, Linear Way, in 1978, these products have become important components of industrial robots, numerically machine tools, and other sophisticated equipment used in the manufacture of such high technology items as semiconductors.
Especially for this kind of industry Nippon Thompson developed a wide range of products made in stainless steel and suitable for so called clean room environment.
Production and sales
Nippon Thompsons’s products are manufactured at nine plants in Japan and sold domestically and overseas under the IKO brand. The company’s domestic sales and service network consists of nine branches and fifteen sales offices. Overseas, Nippon Thompson is represented by an integrated network of distributors, sales agents and branch offices in the United States and Europe.
Europe
The European affiliate, Nippon Thompson Europe BV, has its head office in the Netherlands and offices in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and France. Offices in Germany, Spain and the U.K. have their own warehouse and the facilities to modify linear motion products according to customer specifications.
Environmental and quality certified stringent requirements are set for certification of companies, with demands for good organization, control systems and routines. In many cases the customer demands that a supplier has an ISO certificate to secure and ensuring the requirements.
Nippon Thompson Ltd. is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified.