Sanoyas Hishino Meisho

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Sanoyas Holdings Corporation
Type Corporation
Industry Shipbuilding, Engineering, Construction Machines Group, Leisure
Founded April 1911[2]
Headquarters Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan[3]
Key people Tatsuo Nagumo, Chairman, and Shinichi Kimura, President.[4]
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.[5] The business groups are: the Ship and Steel Structure Group, the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group.[6]

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.[7] In support of these and other activities, the company also participates in the iron and steel processing sector.[7]

The company's other three groups— the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group— have widely varied activities.[7] Activities in these fields include manufacture, installation, sales, leasing and renting, repair and maintenance.[7] Additional services in the civil engineering sector include design, supervision and contracting.[7] The planning, design and installation of electrical signs and illumination systems is one of the company's specialties.[7]

The company also has some pure management revenue streams: amusement park management, real estate management, rental, sale and mediation, and additional related activities.[7]

History

Sanoyas Hishino Meisho affiliated companies
Name[5] Established[5] Capital
Mln. Yen[5]		 Business lines[5]
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.[2] In June 1940, it was incorporated as Sanoyas Dockyard Co. with ¥1.5 million of capital.[2] In 1967, it was listed on the Osaka Stock Exchange.[2] In 1984, the company changed its name to Sanoyas Corporation.[2] After a 1991 merger with Meisho Co., Ltd. the name was changed once again to Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation.[2] As of March 2007, the company had a capital base of ¥2.538 billion.[2]

Shipbuilding and repair

The company's shipbuilding efforts are headquartered at its Mizushima Works and Shipyard.[8] Here, the company builds bulk carriers and tankers.[8]

The company specializes in the Panamax-size bulkers, having built about 60 ships of this size.[8] 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.[8] Other bulker designs by the company include Handymax-size general bulkers and 52,000 DWT woodchip carriers.[8]

The company also makes a 115,527 DWT Aframax-size tanker.[8]

As a spinoff of its shipbuilding business, Sanoyas Hishino Meisho entered the ship repair and refitting business.[9] This company works on cargo ships, high-speed ships, ferries, tankers, car carriers, floating cranes, dredgers, and all types of work barges.[9]

The company's Mizushima Works and Shipyard is the company's flagship facility and is located in Kurashiki City in the Okayama Prefecture.[10] 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.[10]

The company's Osaka Works provides many services for the Ship and Steel Structure group and other groups in the company.[11] The facility has a shipyard, a wharf, and several factories.[11] Some of the resources there include two dry docks and thirteen cranes with capacity up to 80 metric tons.[11] The Osaka Ship Repairing Factory has a shop devoted to maintaining the hull and machinery for high-speed ships.[9]

See also

Melbourne Star, one of more than 80 Ferris wheels built by Sanoyas[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Docklands' trouble-plagued observation wheel set to open in ten weeks
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Company Chronicle.
  3. ↑ Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Address List.
  4. ↑ Google 2008, Sanoyas Hishino Meisho.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Groups.
  6. ↑ Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Structure.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Company Profile.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Newbuilding.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Refitting and Repair.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Mizushima Works and Shipyard.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Osaka Works.

References

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  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Company Profile". Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Company Chronicle". Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Groups". Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Structure". Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Business Bases". Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Address List". Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
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  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Refitting and repair". Ships. Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Osaka Works". Ships. Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  • Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corp. (2007-01-18). "Mizushima Works and Shipyard". Ships. Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 

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