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Star Engineering Co. Ltd. (Hitachi City, Ibaraki) October, 2007
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History of the company 1972 Founded as a maker specializing in micro-motors 1973 Starts delivering micro-motors to Taga Works of Hitachi Co. Ltd Since 1980 Starts manufacturing micro-motors in India, China, Korea as a result of giving manufacturing techniques to developing countries 1991 Starts developing a kitchen waste disposal for home use 1998 Developed disposals win the Grand Prize awarded to the developer, in Hitachi City, of the most creative industrial goods 1998 Starts producing coil winding machines for a noncontact IC card 2004 Starts mass production of IC tags/cards 2006 Selected as one of the 300 small and medium vigorous makers in Japan by the Economy, Trade and Industry Minister 2007 Wins the Industrial Grand Prize awarded by Governor of Ibaraki Prefecture 2007 Selected as one of vigorous enterprises having much intellectual property by Chief of the Japan Patent Office |
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Main products Coil winding machines and micro-motors Since the foundation of the company as an expert of micro-motor manufacturing, it has developed and manufactured a huge number of various micro-motors, and has also established some factories in China, Thailand, and Korea. Not only perfect line-up coil winding machines but manufacturing equipment for micro-motors are developed and produced by the company, itself. Making good use of these fine technologies, new businesses such as production and sales of kitchen waste disposals and IC tags/cards have been brought about. |
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 An example of the products |
 Manufacturing machines in line |
IC tags/cards By applying ultra-fine winding technology built up through production of micro-motors, miniaturization, high precision, cost decrease of IC tags has been achieved. IC tags, up-and-coming newcomers, are expected to be fully used in all the fields of everyday life such as a commuter ticket, electronic money, logistics management, or security control. |
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 Φ５mm tag Grain of rice Ultra-fine IC tag (diameter 5mm) |
 IC chip (enlarged) |
Kitchen waste disposals For contributing to conservation of the global environment and to recycling of food, kitchen waste disposals utilizing biotechnology has been developed for being supplied into the market from home use to industrial use. There are available in the market various products of this type, but the newly developed method of processing kitchen waste has such a unique feature that the process employ “acidulo-composting” (trade name), namely, high temperature composting accompanying heating and stirring at the same time. Consequently, the disposals can keep its ability of decomposing kitchen waste for a long time and expel only a little bad smell. Also, the compost obtained is weekly acid and superior to conventional weekly alkaline compost as a fertilizer. Additionally, the method of deodorizing with complex microorganism is employed for further reducing bad smell. |
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| Decomposition of kitchen waste through fermentation
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 Kitchen waste disposal for home use |
Features of the company The most remarkable feature is swift and smart management such as, aggressive absorption of advanced technology from outside the company, development of new technologies and products through close cooperation with engineers/scientist of universities or large-scale research laboratories, giving manufacturing techniques to developing countries, advancement or turning of production sites into overseas countries. The policy of the company consists of “Study”, “Think”, “Action” and “Review”, the first letters of which may come from the founder’s last name “Hoshi” standing for “Star” in English as well as the name of the company “Star Engineering Co. ltd”. They truly represent the company’s spirit. Others The editor in chief was explained about the above information directly by the president Mr. Hoshi, and strongly impressed with his exciting conversation. Besides, he takes much interest not only in the management of his company but also in invigoration of his hometown, Hitachi City. Since the company is dealing with mass-products in the competitive field where advanced technologies are freely and fully applied and the products are also by far consumer-oriented, the most important issue may be how timely he can put them into circulation in the market. |
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| Location of Head Office and
Ohnuma Factory 28-10, 1-Chome, Ohnuma-Cho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki. 316-0022. Tel 0294-38-1212 http://www.stareng.co.jp/ Location of Environmental Systems Division 15-60, 1-chome, Suwa-cho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki. 316-0001 Tel.0294-35-4082 Location of Machinery Systems Division 10-13, 1-chome, Suwa-cho, Ibaraki 316-0001 Tel.0294-35-4081 |
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