Vision/Mission
Company Purpose
We contribute to the improvement of society through the production and sales of good products, and a prosperous business.
Company Motto
We pride ourselves as a pioneer in the interior design and furnishing industry and persist in a spirit of cooperation, sincerity and determination.
Business Description
With a history of over 130 years since its founding, Suminoe Textile has been engaged in planning, production and sales in the following three business segments:
In recent years, we have accelerated our global expansion efforts, while undertaking new businesses in fields other than textiles, such as the solar cell-related business.
In the future, Suminoe Textile will continue taking on new challenges as a pioneering manufacturer in the industry.
Background
Suminoe Textile was founded by rice dealer Denshichi Murata, who opened the Murata Factory in 1883 in Osaka. Originally started as a side business in a private household, this small factory for manufacturing hand-woven carpets was soon receiving orders for interiors for railway cars and ships, and even for the Imperial Diet Building, heralding the dawn of Japan’s interior decoration industry.
Suminoe Textile has continually endeavored to realize technical advancements throughout our 130-year history, and under our thorough quality management, we have pursued the creation of better products.
Products/Services
Interior Fittings
Carpets, curtains, rugs and mats, wallpaper, arts and crafts textiles, etc.
Automotive Textiles and Traffic Facilities
Seat coverings, carpets, seat cushion materials and other interior and exterior materials for automobiles, trains, buses, etc.
Functional Materials
Electric carpets, deodorization-related products, floor materials for bathrooms, slicing of silicon wafers for solar cells, etc.
Markets
The Suminoe Textile Group has now expanded its overseas presence to include 13 strongholds in six countries (United States, Mexico, China, Thailand, India and Indonesia).
We mainly supply automotive textiles to Japanese-affiliated automotive manufacturers in overseas countries.
Industry
Textile product manufacturing field (primarily carpets and seat fabrics).
Location
Headquarters: 11-20, Minami-Semba 3-Chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-8504 Japan
Affiliated Companies – Japan
Interior Fittings
Suminoe Co., Ltd.
Runon Co., Ltd.
Suminoe Logistics Co., Ltd.
Suminoe Works Co., Ltd.
Sewing Hyogo Co., Ltd.
Automotive Textiles and Traffic Facilities
Suminoe Teijin Techno Co., Ltd.
Marunaka Souei Co., Ltd.
Functional Materials
Suminoe Nakacho Device Technology Corporation
Others
Kansai Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Factory
Suminoe Techno Co., Ltd.
Tango Textile Co., Ltd.
Teijin Tecloth Ltd.
Owari Seisen Co., Ltd.
Associated Companies
Sumisho Airbag Systems Co., Ltd.
KST Co., Ltd.
Affiliated Companies – Overseas
Automotive Textiles
Suminoe Textile of America Corporation (United States)
Bondtex, Inc. (United States)
Suminoe Textile de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (Mexico)
SPM Automotive Textile Co., Ltd. (China)
Suzhou Suminoe Koide Automotive Accessories Co., Ltd. (China)
Suminoe Textile Shanghai Co., Ltd. (China)
T.C.H. Suminoe Co., Ltd. (Thailand)
Suminoe Teijin Techno Krishna India Pvt. Ltd. (India)
PT. Sinar Suminoe Indonesia (Indonesia)
PT. Suminoe Surya Techno (Indonesia)
Functional Materials
Suzhou Suminoe Textiles Co., Ltd. (China)
Competitive Advantages
Interior Fittings
Automotive Textiles and Traffic Facilities
Company Goals & Objectives
Suminoe Textile aims to expand its market share and improve its ratio of operating income to net sales by further focusing on the expansion of its overseas business and active promotion of one-of-a-kind products that are friendly to the environment. Under its three-year medium-term management plan, the company will actively develop its business in each segment to achieve the following targets during the plan’s period: net sales of 100,000 million yen, operating income of 5,000 million yen, and ROE of 8% or higher.
Management
Board of Directors and Corporate Auditors (as of June 1, 2016)
Chairman Ichizo Yoshikawa (Representative Director)
President Shozo Kawabata (Representative Director)
Senior Managing Director Yoshiaki Tanihara (Representative Director)
Managing Director Hitoshi Iida
Directors Yoshiteru Mimura
Kunihiko Kotaki
Yutaka Masuyama
Corporate Auditors Makoto Tatsumi
Hidenao Yoichi
Yasufumi Yamashita
Employees
247 employees (Suminoe Textile, Co., Ltd.)
2,604 employees (Consolidated group companies)
(As of May 31, 2015)
Highlights
1883 Founder Denshichi Murata began manufacturing hand-woven carpets in Sumiyoshi, Osaka.
1891 Supplied carpets to the Imperial Diet Building (current Diet Building).
1896 Produced hand-woven moquettes successfully, and adopted by Japan National Railways for seat coverings in 1899.
1913 Established Suminoe Textile Joint-Stock Company.
By introducing technologies and power looms from Germany and England, manufacturing of machine-woven moquettes began for the first time in Japan.
1916 Began manufacturing of carpets using power looms.
1925 Manufactured flags for His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince of Japan.
1930 Established Suminoe Textile Co., Ltd.
1949 Shares listed on the Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto stock exchanges.
1954 First to introduce to Japan the tufting carpet machine from the United States.
1955 Production and sales of the domestic small car pioneer “Flying Feather” by Suminoe Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Suminoe Textile Co., Ltd.
1964 Moquette supplied for seats in the 0-type Shinkansen bullet trains.
1980 Began production of Japan’s first carpet tiles in Nara Factory.
1994 Established T.C.H. Suminoe Co., Ltd. in Thailand.
1998 Developed Triple Fresh® deodorant treatment technology.
2003 Established Suminoe Textile of America Corporation in the United States.
Established Suzhou Suminoe Textiles Co., Ltd. in China.
Established Suzhou Suminoe Koide Automotive Accessories Co., Ltd. in China.
Established PT. Sinar Suminoe Indonesia in Indonesia.
2005 Established SPM Automotive Textile Co., Ltd. in China.
2010 Established Suminoe Textile Shanghai Co., Ltd. in China.
Established Suminoe Teijin Techno Krishna India Pvt. Ltd. in India.
2011 Released “ECOS®”, eco-friendly carpet tiles under the “horizontal recycling” system.
2013 Established Suminoe Textile de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. in Mexico.
Established PT. Suminoe Surya Techno in Indonesia.
Celebrated the 100th anniversary of our incorporation. (The 130th anniversary of our founding.)
2015 Acquired Bondtex, Inc. and made it a consolidated subsidiary.
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