“For 40 years, Kurashiki Kako Company (KKC) has been building reputation as a dependable supplier of NVH control products in a wide variety of rubber applications. We take pride in our joint heritage with Japanese automotive industry, which has constantly challenged us, and which provided a perfect ground for constantly proving our capability, and our commitment to developing practical NVH solutions at a superior value. Nowadays, KKC has diversified its market to include customers beyond Japan, and has been aggressively expanding its infrastructure to support both the well-established North-American- and the growing Asian-market. KKC will continue to pursue competitive advantage as a magic balance between managing a fairly nimble company structure, and having capability of value chain management becoming of much bigger companies. We aim at combining high-productivity and our manufacturing “know-how” with competitively priced labor available in the global market, for the ultimate benefit of our customer. We deem our mission to be adding value to society by offering ever improving products while constantly reducing waste and cost.”

Osamu Tateyama

1. KURASHIKI KAKO aims to provide customers with a superior value as a well-balanced trade off between function and cost.
2. KURASHIKI KAKO values long-term relationship with customers as a joint commitment to compete in the global market.
3. KURASHIKI KAKO values their employee input and considers an enjoyable working environment as adding value to product and customers.
4. KURASHIKI KAKO assumes social responsibility for addressing environmental goals connected with its business activity.

1. I make my customer's best interest my top priority.
2. I continually improve internal processes to meet customer needs.
3. I continually challenge myself and others to exceed customers’ expectations.