Company Profile
GREETING
We, Shibuya Optical Co., Ltd. as one of the pioneers of optical components and
instruments manufacturer, have been continuously in supplying variety products to our clients; meantime,
we always keep a keen eye on “Good communication” with our customers. Offering good service may
cultivate a valuable relationship of trust that is what we believe in.
Now, based on our rich experience in producing optical products, we are taking a new step toward meeting
various needs with our advanced technical system. Thanks to the tremendous support of our users, we will
keep our business growth and achieve much more fruitful results in the optical field.
SHIBUYA OPTICAL CO.,LTD
Seiichiro Shimodaira/President
PROFILE
- Name
- Shibuya Optical Co., Ltd.
- Established
- October, 1963
- Capital
- 20,000,000 yen
- Annual Sales
- 900,000,000 yen (2018)
- President
- Seiichiro Shimodaira
- Employee
- 24
- Address
- 3-22-2 Shimo-Niikura, Wako-shi, Saitama Pref. Japan 351-0111
- TEL
- +81-48-469-1200
- FAX
- +81-48-469-1311
- Business
- Manufacture, supply and processing of optical parts and instruments
- Bank Reference
- The Bank of Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. Nerima-Heiwadai Branch
Higashi-Nihon Bank Ltd. Wako
Branch
HISTORY
- 1963
- Established as the manufacturer of optical lenses at Hatsudai, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
- 1965
- Started manufacturing optical scales
- 1970
- Started manufacturing disc glass for rotary encoder
- 1975
- Started manufacturing Brix meter made Shibuya brand
- 1976
- Started exporting to Europe
- 1979
- Started exporting to Asian countries, Latin America countries
- 1980
- Started exporting to Middle East and Oceania
- 1982
- Moved to Hikawadai, Nerima-ku, TOKYO
- 1985
- Started selling in domestic market
- 1990
- Organization change to Shibuya Optical Co., Ltd.
- 1994
- Entered into ODM contract with Chinese manufacturers for optical parts
- 1996
- Moved to current address
- 1996
- Admitted to the membership into Japan Microscope Manufacturers Association
- 2000
- Seiichiro Shimodaira assumed office as President
- 2001
- Established joint enterprise, "Yongxin Shibuya Co., Ltd." in China
- 2003
- Established joint enterprise, "Nanjing Shibuya Co., Ltd." in China
- 2003
- Started importing optical filter material directly from SCHOTT in Germany and do sales agency
business in Japan
- 2004
- Built an annex for clean room and warehouse
- 2004
- Added a clean room as quality control workshop
- 2006
- Opened Nanjing Office in China for design
- 2009
- Admitted to the nenbership into Japan Association for Promotion of Science Education and
Equipment
- 2010
- Our New Innovatory Plan was approved by Saitama Prefecture as a business model (Sansi No.447)
- 2013
- Company 50th anniversary party. Our business partners including our overseas joint-venture
staffs came together.
- 2014
- Shibuya Optical now is challenging to develop a new product in new field, with a governmental
grant-in-aid for small and medium enterprises (Strategic infrastructure technology advancement
support project).
- 2014~2016
- Adopted as a strategic fundamental technology advancement support project.
Joint R & D will
be conducted with RIKEN, NAGATSU, and ASTOM.
- 2016
- November, Environmental management system JIS Q 14001: 2015 (ISO 14001: 2015) Authenticated.
- 2017
- April, Release of Glomal 350 · Glomal 800
June, Glomal special site launched Glomal.JP
- 2018
- Shibuya Optical was chosen as the grant award by the New Technology Development Foundation for
the 100th (Heisei 29 Second) grant.
- 2019
- The painting room was expanded. Opened Asaka Lab in Asaka City.
- 2021
- Voluntarily returned ISO certification.
- 2022
- The laboratory was expanded.
- 2023
- Company 60th anniversary.
SYSTEM
Customers and Users are constantly requesting high qualities, multiform models, and improved and qualified
products. For answering these demands, we organized a company system, including a sales department featured
with prompt action, a planning department which supporting the sales with creative power, and of course, an
indispensable quality control department keeping the completeness of products. In addition, we also have a
unique and creative development department for every customized request. Collaborated Shibuya company system
is ready all the time for offering our products and techniques.
Global Environment Conservation
fixed on 1st, November, 2016
Philosophy:
We strongly confirm that the global environment conservation is the most Important issue common to
mankind, and we always take care through our business
activities for sustainable resources use, relief of criminate change, protection of biodiversity and
ecosystem, and also prevention of the pollution.
Policy:
We establish the policy for the global environment conservation to follow the below clauses, and
implement and maintain of these clauses. We engage in the designing, development, manufacture and sales
of optical, scientific and laboratory instruments as our main business activities. Then, through such
our business activities we declare for the continual improvement of below global environment management
system, propulsion for prevention of the pollution and corporation with
global environment conservation.
- Evaluated the influence by our products and services against global environment,
we fix our target for the improvement within the range our capacity in both technical and
economical, and inspect the result of such improvement to develop the performance for the global
environment management system in continual.
- We perfectly follow the law and accepted agreement related with global environment conservation.
- Recognized of the special priority on the blow clauses to improve the influence against global
environment for following clauses by our products and services given through our all business
activities, all our staff take full attention to act for the improvement.
(1) Designing and development based on the consideration of global environment
conservation.
(2) Pushing the recycle of the resources.
(3) Improving the effective use of electric energy.
- Making lecture to our all staff to keep high conscious for the global environment conservation in
them.
- Our philosophy and policy for the global environment conservation is known to our all staff by the
printer and also exposed to outside by the paper and our URL.
Shibuya Optical
Co., Ltd.