| Type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Shipbuilding, Engineering, Construction Machines Group, Leisure |
| Founded | April 1911[1] |
| Headquarters | Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan[2] |
| Key people | Tatsuo Nagumo, Chairman, and Shinichi Kimura, President.[3] |
| Website | http://www.sanoyas.co.jp/ |
Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation is a Japanese company that consists of four principal business groups and twelve affiliated companies.[4] The business groups are: the Ship and Steel Structure Group, the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group.[5]
The company's Ship and Steel Structure Group, builds and repairs ships, salvages sunken ships, leases and rents ships and shipboard machinery as well as providing actual marine transportation services.[6] In support of these and other activities, the company also participates in the iron and steel processing sector.[6]
The company's other three groups — the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group — have widely varied activities.[6] Activities in these fields include manufacture, installation, sales, leasing and renting, repair and maintenance.[6] Additional services in the civil engineering sector include design, supervision and contracting.[6] The planning, design and installation of electrical signs and illumination systems is one of the company's specialties.[6]
The company also has some pure management revenue streams: amusement park management, real estate management, rental, sale and mediation, and additional related activities.[6]
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| Sanoyas Hishino Meisho affiliated companies | |||
| Name[4] | Established[4] | Capital Mln. Yen[4] |
Business lines[4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yamada Industries Ltd. | October 17, 1925 | ¥M200 | Environmental controls |
| Yamada Engineering Service Co., Ltd. | March 5, 1981 | ¥M10 | Engineering services |
| K.S SANOYAS Co., Ltd. | December 29, 1940 | ¥M180 | Mechanical parts |
| SANOYAS SANGYO Co., Ltd. | April 11, 1979 | ¥M60 | Services |
| SANOTEC Corporation | October 31, 1984 | ¥M80 | Computer and software |
| SANOYAS SHOJI Co., Ltd. | August 30, 1956 | ¥M48 | Shipping and shipbuilding |
| SANOYAS TATEMONO Co., Ltd. | June 29, 1972 | ¥M200 | Services |
| Sanoyas Security Patrols Co., Ltd. | November 25, 1983 | ¥M20 | Security |
| Sanoyas Engineering Co., Ltd. | April 1, 1986 | ¥M30 | Engineering |
| Katoh Precise Machinery Co., Ltd. | November, 1961 | ¥M64 | Robotics and machinery |
| Mizuho Industrial Co., Ltd. | May 7, 1960 | ¥M60 | Processing equipment |
| Meisho Network Co., Ltd. | July 1, 1989 | ¥M80 | Leisure industry |
The company was founded in April 1911 as the Sanoyas Shipyard.[1] In June 1940, it was incorporated as Sanoyas Dockyard Co. with ¥1.5 million of capital.[1] In 1967, it was listed on the Osaka Stock Exchange.[1] In 1984, the company changed its name to Sanoyas Corporation.[1] After a 1991 merger with Meisho Co., Ltd. the name was changed once again to Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation.[1] As of March 2007, the company had a capital base of ¥2.538 billion.[1]
The company's shipbuilding efforts are headquartered at its Mizushima Works and Shipyard.[7] Here, the company builds bulk carriers and tankers.[7]
The company specializes in the Panamax-size bulkers, having built about 60 ships of this size.[7] The company has been able to build bulkers with capacity of up to 83,000 metric tons deadweight (DWT) able to pass through the Panama Canal.[7] Other bulker designs by the company include Handymax-size general bulkers and 52,000 DWT woodchip carriers.[7]
The company also makes a 115,527 DWT Aframax-size tanker.[7]
As a spinoff of its shipbuilding business, Sanoyas Hishino Meisho entered the ship repair and refitting business.[8] This company works on cargo ships, high-speed ships, ferries, tankers, car carriers, floating cranes, dredgers, and all types of work barges.[8]
The company's Mizushima Works and Shipyard is the company's flagship facility and is located in Kurashiki City in the Okayama Prefecture.[9] The facility employs advanced shipbuilding techniques using computerized and robotic systems for ship building, repair, conversion, and renovation work. The facility has a shipyard, four wharfs, a dry dock capable of holding up to three ships at once, and 46 cranes with capacity up to 800 metric tons.[9]
The company's Osaka Works provides many services for the Ship and Steel Structure group and other groups in the company.[10] The facility has a shipyard, a wharf, and several factories.[10] Some of the resources there include two dry docks and thirteen cranes with capacity up to 80 metric tons.[10] The Osaka Ship Repairing Factory has a shop devoted to maintaining the hull and machinery for high-speed ships.[8]