Media Relations
Announcement

HKS Co., Ltd.

March 27th, 2020
For immediate release━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Establishment of the R&D department at an overseas base in Thailand.
Boosting the development of products for Thailand and nearby markets.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HKS Co., Ltd (HQ: Shizuoka, Japan, CEO: Daisuke Mizuguchi) establishes a new R&D department in its Thailand
subsidiary “HKS (Thailand) CO., LTD.” to speed up product development not only for Thailand market but also for othernearby markets.

HKS Overseas base in Thailand: HKS-IT CO., LTD. (Exhaust Factory) andHKS (THAILAND) CO., LTD. (Sales)

HKS Co., LTD. - a pioneer of aftermarket parts development in Japan, doesn’t stop on the domestic market andcontinues to actively pursue overseas markets for more than 20 years, with its global presence in the US, UK, Thailandand China.
In Thailand, our presence extends from sales to manufacturing products for locally manufactured vehicles withexhaust manufacturing factory operating since 2010 that produces not only aftermarket but OEM products as well.
A new manufacturing base in Thailand was built in December 2016 in Bangpoo (North) Industrial Estate, one of
the industrial parks under the jurisdiction of the Thai Industrial Estate Authority. A new R&D department will furtheraccelerate the development of products for local vehicles and promote localization strategies will local staff.
In the past local staff designed prototypes and performed vehicle fitment tests following the instructions given
by an engineer from office in Japan. A new environment with Thailand R&D department and locally originatedmarketing strategies will allow us to create products that better suit local market needs.
New development won’t stop on local aftermarket and will greatly accelerate other development activities, suchas OEM projects with automotive manufacturers. With the number of new products developed in one year doubled
and new, other than exhaust products development carried out locally we aim for growth in Thailand and nearby
markets.

Exhaust products made in Thailand factory for locally manufactured vehicles

Thailand R&D facilities (Chassis dynamometer, lifts)
Summary as follows,■HKS Co., Ltd. Thailand Subsidiary
Company Name:HKS-IT CO., LTD. (Exhaust factory)
HKS (THAILAND) CO., LTD. (Sales)
Address:
884 Moo.2 T.Phraek Sa Mai, A.Mueang Samutprakarn, Samutprakan 10280
URL:HKS-IT CO., LTD. (Exhaust factory)
HKS (THAILAND) CO., LTD. (Sales)

http://hks-it.com/
https://www.hksthailand.com/HKS (THAILAND) CO., LTD (Sales) establishes R&D Department on April 1st, 2020.
Department Name: R&D Sales Support Department
Activities Outline:
・Vehicle exhaust development and marketing.
・Suspension, ECU products, intake products development and marketing.
・Organizational structure: General manager, 3 mechanics(specialists) , total: 4 people.
・Exhaust development target: over 20 vehicles per year.
・To start operation in July 2020.
・Headquarters office is to provide guiding of local staff.
・Cooperation with sales staff in local sales events, sales and marketing support.
For inquiries please contact:HKS Co., Ltd.
7181 Kitayama Fujinomiya Shizuoka Japan+81-(0)544-29-1111