Users and TOYO Partnership Magazine

VOL . 328
2023
N ew Yea r
is su eTo p m e s s a g e

In order to contribute to customersʼ value creation, all of our employees
will strive to supply quality products and services ever.

Happy New Year

Exhibition Report

K 2022 (Dusseldorf, Germany) Exhibition Report
2022 Japan Die Casting Congress & Exhibition Report
Technology ReportElectric servo die casting machine Ds-350EX2 Provisional model
Customers’ Value Up

New year
addr essYoshiaki
TabataPresident and CEO
Happy new year.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude for your special
support and patronage during the past year.
Looking back on the world situation last year, Russia's invasion of Ukraine shocked the world and cast a dark shadow
over the global economy. With a peaceful solution still not insight, economic sanctions against Russia by various countries are expected to last further, making it difficult to normalize economic activities. In addition, tensions have been
mounting in the East Asian region due to the intensifiedstruggle for hegemony between the United States and Chinawith Chinaʼ s recent economic and military rise as a backdrop. It is easily conceivable that Japan will be affected interms of economy and national securities in the event thatthe conflict across the Taiwan Strait gets serious.
As to economic climate in Japan, personal consumption has
picked up thanks to the progress in vaccination that has
curbed the spread of infection of COVID to some extent, andthe effects of nationwide travel support by the government.
In addition, people have gotten used to the “new normal” life
style. However the future is still very bleak because ofrecent sharp depreciation of the yen that has caused soaringof resource procuring costs and problems in logistics due tolongstanding shortage of shipping containers.
Despite of above environment, we have enjoyed rather solid
business with increased inquiry for both Plastics Injection
Molding Machines and Die-Casting Machines from our customers in the automotive and living ware industries. By
region, we have received many inquiries for medium and large
Injection Molding Machines from Europe and North America,and Die-Casting Machines from China. However, still continuing global shortage of semiconductors forced us to reschedule the delivery time of some machine models. We would
deeply apologize for the great concern and inconvenience wecaused to our customers and distributors with this regard.
Now, we have greatly improved the situation by diversifying
suppliers and expanding procuring routes. We will continue toshorten delivery time placing top priority on securing components in addition to constant production reforms.
As our global production enhancement, we started the third
phase of construction at our Changshu factory in China inApril last year. The construction has progressed as scheduled and will be completed soon. Once the new factory iscompleted, the production capacity of Injection Molding Machines will be increased to 150 units per month on an average. Then we can deliver Changshu's original high-spec
model, the CS Series, in a timely manner to our customers in
the ever-expanding EV, medical, and 5G-related sectors inChinese market.
Regarding introduction efforts of our cutting-edge products
to customers, we joined the "K 2022," the world-biggest
trade fair for plastic and rubber products, held in Düsseldorf,
Germany in last October, where we demonstrated two of ourlatest Plastics Injection Machines: Eco-positive and EU-customized Si-350-6S and Si-450-6S.

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As for Die-Casting Machines, we participated in the "2022Japan Die-Casting Congress & Exhibition (j-dec 2022)" heldat Pacifico Yokohama in November last year, and exhibitedthe "Ds-350EX2" as a provisional model of the next generation electric servo die-casting machine, and the "T-Station
lite Ver.2", an IoT-compatible management and operationsystem. We also demonstrated "remote casting” connecting
the exhibition site and our head office with our remote control system, the “T-Remote Web.”
This year, we have a plan to participate in various exhibitions in Japan and overseas:
In Japan, we will join “IPF Japan 2023” held three yearly at
Makuhari Messe in November, where plastic and rubber-related industry professionals join from around the world.
Expecting about 50,0000 visitors, it is one of the largest
exhibitions in Japan. IPF will be a good opportunity where
you can see first-hand the latest equipment and technology
contributing to not only your productivity but also reductionof power consumption and CO2 emissions.
Overseas exhibitions we are planning to join this year
include PLASTINDIA 2023 (February, India), KOPLAS 2023
(March, South Korea), PLAST 2023 (September, Italy) forInjection Molding Machines, and KOREA METAL WEEK 2023(October, Korea) for Die-Casting Machines. We are looking
forward to seeing you at any of the exhibition sites.
Now we are currently developing new products having
higher performance in terms of quality, cycle time and environmental efficiency to respond to ever environmentally conscious market and society.
At the TOYO Group, with the slogan of "Customers' Value
Up", all of us strive to supply quality products and services
so that we can contribute to increase customersʼ value withthe technological expertise we have built up as a specialized
manufacturer of Plastic Injection Molding Machines andDie-Casting Machines. We would appreciate your continued
supports.
I sincerely hope that this year will lead to a bright future,and I would like to conclude my New Year's greetings bywishing you and your families a healthy and happy year.

Hiroyuki
Yamamoto

Director and General Managerof Sales Division

GM of Manufacturing andYasuhiro Director,Procurement Division,and GM of Production Reform Office
Miwa

Building relationship of trust with our customers,
we continue to produce eco-friendly products.
Happy new year.
Last year, the global economy recovered at large partly thanks toprogress in vaccination against COVID-19. However, sharp
depreciation of Japanese yen and Chinaʼ s lockdown policy heavily affected us, causing roaring price hike and long procurement
time of material and components we need. And fuel and utility
costs also increased. We would apologize for the inconvenience
we caused to our customers, such as very long delivery time andincreased price of our products. A the same time, I would like tocordially appreciate your powerful supports we have received
despite of above situation.
Last year, we exhibited our products at various exhibitions
mainly in Europe with the theme of “carbon neutrality,” including
K 2022 International Plastics and Rubber Industry Exhibition inGermany, and those in Poland, Italy, Slovenia and Turkey. InJapan, we jointed the j-dec2022 Japan Die Casting Congress &Exposition, which was held for the first time in four years, wherewe exhibited our new eco-friendly electric servo Die Casting Machine, the Ds-350EX2. I am very happy we saw many more visitors than the last time, and have received a lot of inquiries.
Thank you again for your visiting the show.
Also in this year, we are planning to exhibit our products at manyexhibitions. Particularly at the IPF Japan 2023 (InternationalPlastics Fair ) to be held in this autumn, we will process ourideas backed by our collective power of accumulated technologies. We are sure that will help your efforts to increase your corporate value. Please look forward to it.
In 2023, TOYO will make all-out efforts to quickly and flexibly
respond to the turbulence of the market. To name a few, thenewly opened Hamamatsu Sales Office will further improve ourbusiness activities including customer service more closely to thecustomers in that region. In China, our newly expanded Changshu
factory will start full-fledged shipments of our high-quality Injection Molding Machines to customers in China and other countries. In addition, we will boost our “Customersʼ Value Up” efforts
by customizing our machine for individual customers.
I would like to conclude my New Year's greetings by wishing allof you that 2023 is a great year full of blessings and happiness.

Happy new year.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the special support and favorites we received from all of you over the past year.
Looking back on last year, it had been about three years since
the novel coronavirus began to spread worldwide, and although it
has become more contagious, we were able to continue to run
our factory without seeing any clusters happening thanks to thevaccination against COVID-19 and strict adherence to the “ThreeCs.” In addition, we are finally relieved from movement restrictions, which had put us in stressful situation. This time, wewould like to apologize for the inconvenience we caused to customers due to the delayed machine shipment, and for theincrease in prices of our products caused by soaring of materialcost.
In the last year, some social topics drew our attention in Japan,such as assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
during his election campaign speech, Yenʼ s sharp depreciation
beyond even \150/US$ line that invited price hike of material we
procure from abroad, and COVID-related ones including nationwide travel support and governmentʼ s recommendation not towear facial masks outdoors, and resumption of various bigevents after long hiatus due to pandemic.
For this year, we have set goals and plans as follows:
・Building of new head office of Toyo Machinery Engineering Co.,
Ltd. for better customer service, so that customers can use ourproducts without any concern. The new head office is equippedwith automatic parts storage system and a temperature-controlled room for storing precision parts. The new head office isscheduled to start its operation around October.
・Building of a new factory building, provisionally called G17, for
production of large machines.
・Boosting of digitization (going paperless) as measures to protect environmental resources, where we will digitize the machine
adjustment reports, and monitor our factory using IoT.
・Switching of cutting oil to alkaline electrolyzed water for better
environment.
・Completing of the third factory at our Changshu factory in
China before the Lunar New Year, which allows shorter delivery
time and increased production of our products.
Thank you in advance for your continued patronage this year too.
I would like to conclude my New Year's greetings by wishing you
all good health and prosperity.
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Exhibition
reportK 2022 ( Dusseldorf, Germany )The world's largest plastic exhibition "K 2022" was held in
Düsseldorf, Germany for eight days from October 16
through October 23, 2022.
It was October 2019 when this three-yearly exhibition
was held last time, which was before outbreak ofCOVID-19. Since then, most of trade fairs around theworld had been canceled or postponed, and people hadlost the opportunity to feel the power of the event
first-hand. Before the show I expected that COVID would
somehow affect K 2022 this time too, but I was surprised
to see most of the exhibitors and visitors not wearing
masks. I think COVID-19 seems to be just a flu now inEurope, and ordinary daily life started to return.
I think it was a really perfect timing for holding K 2022.

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But the total number of visitors was about 176,000, down
about 20% from the previous time. This would be reflecting the fact that each country has each policy in dealing
with COVID-19, and current Ukrainian situation also
might cast some shadow.
At this time, with the concept of “BE A GREEN LEADER”,
we and our sole agent in Europe, TOYO europe, jointly
exhibited two models of Injection Molding Machines, theSi-350-6S JH750E and the Si-450-6S JH750E, at ourbooth having more space than that of the previous time.
With the Si-350-6S, together with Leonhard Kruz (Germany), we demonstrated the production line of green
products that is made by applying hot-printing of recycledplastic-made thin plasticfilm to the tool box made ofrecycled resin.
On the other hand, the Si-450-6S, specially designed forcontainer molding and equipped with a Campetella(Italy)-make high speed robot, appealed 4.3-second-highspeed molding of food trays. It also boasted superiority inenergy saving, displaying on the screen energy consumption by the injected mass in kWh/kg. It well proved theadvantage of all-electric machines over hydraulic models.
In addition, we demonstrated the latest Industry 4.0
technology by connecting both molding machines to the“umati” app developed by VDMA (German Machinery
Mechanical Engineering Industry Association) throughthe EUROMAP 77 interface, so that you can observe themachinesʼ operation conditions on line from anywhere inthe world.
We are very happy we saw many visitors from all over theworld, let alone Europe. Thank you very much for yourvisiting us at K 2022.

As a member of the plastics industry, we believe that wewere able to fully display our efforts to meet the organizerʼs concept of “Circular Economy”, “Climate Protection”,
and “Digitalization” for this exhibition.
In 2025, when the next K 2025 is held, we will celebrate
the 100th anniversary of our founding. With our slogan“Customersʼ Value Up”, we will continue to offer usefulproposals to create a sustainable society based on our(Mikio Takahashi)
many years of experience.

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Exhibition
report2022 Japan Die Casting Congress &Exposition or “j-dec2022”
The 22nd “2022 Japan Die Casting Congress & Exposition” or “j-dec2022” for short was held at Pacifico Yokohama for three days from November 10 to 12. This event
used to be held every other year, but the one two years
ago was cancelled due to pandemic, so it was held for thefirst time in four years.

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At the conference, TOYO made a presentation titled"Effects of high-response injection die-casting machineson product quality", and at our booth, we showcased ourElectric Servo Die-Casting Machine, the Ds-350EX2, andour centralized control system the T-Station lite Ver.2. In
addition, using our remote screen operation system, theT-Remote Web, we demonstrated the casting condition

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changing of the BD-350V7EX at the CS center located in
our head office from the tablet terminal at the exhibition
hall. Visitors were surprised to see how the system cancontrol the casting condition on-line in the actual casting
scene. We hope our exhibits and their demonstrations
will help customers introduce “IoT” and “Digitalization” totheir factories.

⬆ Remote screen operation system
Demonstration of T-Renote Web

At “j-dec2022”, I once again felt the wonder of the event,where visitors and exhibitors can meet to communicate
each other in-person.

Technologyreport

Environment-friendly electric servo die casting machine
Provisional model＜Release date undecided＞

Technologyintroduction 2023

Major features● High speed injection speed via 100G acceleration (with THRV system)● Smooth switching from high speed injection to pressure intensification● Downsizing (The shortest overall length among our 350t class models)
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Notice :Relocation ofWest Japan Branch

OurWestJapan

New address
San-Ei Bldg. F4, 2241 Shimizu,
Uozumi-cho, Akashi City,Hyogo Prefecture,674-0074, Japan※Telephone and fax numbers
remain unchanged.

BranchOﬃce moved to about 400
meters to the north of JR
Tsuchiyama station.

T O Y OI N F O R M A T I O N
Address
Green Park #103, 295-7
Sanwa-cho, Minami-ku,
Hamamatsu City,
Shizuoka Prefecture,
435-0038, Japan
TEL. 053 ‑ 424 ‑ 6966
FAX. 053 ‑ 424 ‑ 6967

Notice :Opening of Hamamatsu
Sales Ofﬁce

Hamamatsu

SalesOﬃce

has opened about 3 km eastof JR Hamamatsu Station.

Editor's Note

This year will be a good year, definitely. Last year, historical awful incidents broke out; in Eastern
Europe, Russia invaded Ukraine causing tyranny and massacre; and in Japan, the former prime
minister was assassinated in public in broad daylight in a western city of Nara. However, they
say ,"good luck and bad luck alternate like the strands of a rope". I wish all of you a wonderful year.
● Cover: Akashi Strait Bridge and the sunrise Right: Akashi's specialty "Grilled Bream"（Kamon）

Head oﬃce / Factory

523-1 Fukusato, Futami-cho, Akashi-city, Hyogo, 674-0091, Japan
TEL: +81-78-942-2345 Fax: +81-78-943-7275

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Published January 2023