Sanoyas Hishino Meisho

Sanoyas Holdings Corporation
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 7022
Industry	Shipbuilding, Engineering, Construction Machines Group, Leisure
Founded	April 1911
Headquarters	Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Key people	Tatsuo Nagumo, Chairman, and Shinichi Kimura, President.
Website	http://www.sanoyas.co.jp/

Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation is a Japanese company that consists of four principal business groups and twelve affiliated companies.^[4] The business groups are: the Ship and Steel Structure Group, the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group.^[5]

The company's Ship and Steel Structure Group, builds and repairs ships, salvages sunken ships, leases and rents ships and shipboard machinery as well as providing actual marine transportation services.^[6] In support of these and other activities, the company also participates in the iron and steel processing sector.^[6]

The company's other three groups— the Parking System & Engineering Group, the Construction Machines Group, and the Leisure Business Group— have widely varied activities.^[6] Activities in these fields include manufacture, installation, sales, leasing and renting, repair and maintenance.^[6] Additional services in the civil engineering sector include design, supervision and contracting.^[6] The planning, design and installation of electrical signs and illumination systems is one of the company's specialties.^[6]

The company also has some pure management revenue streams: amusement park management, real estate management, rental, sale and mediation, and additional related activities.^[6]

History

Name^[4]	Established^[4]	Capital mln. yen^[4]	Business lines^[4]
Sanoyas Hishino Meisho affiliated companies
Yamada Industries Ltd.	October 17, 1925	¥M200	Environmental controls
Yamada Engineering Service Co., Ltd.	March 5, 1981	¥M10	Engineering services
K.S SANOYAS Co., Ltd.	December 29, 1940	¥M180	Mechanical parts
SANOYAS SANGYO Co., Ltd.	April 11, 1979	¥M60	Services
SANOTEC Corporation	October 31, 1984	¥M80	Computer and software
SANOYAS SHOJI Co., Ltd.	August 30, 1956	¥M48	Shipping and shipbuilding
SANOYAS TATEMONO Co., Ltd.	June 29, 1972	¥M200	Services
Sanoyas Security Patrols Co., Ltd.	November 25, 1983	¥M20	Security
Sanoyas Engineering Co., Ltd.	April 1, 1986	¥M30	Engineering
Katoh Precise Machinery Co., Ltd.	November, 1961	¥M64	Robotics and machinery
Mizuho Industrial Co., Ltd.	May 7, 1960	¥M60	Processing equipment
Meisho Network Co., Ltd.	July 1, 1989	¥M80	Leisure industry

The company was founded in April 1911 as the Sanoyas Shipyard.^[1] In June 1940, it was incorporated as Sanoyas Dockyard Co. with ¥1.5 million of capital.^[1] In 1967, it was listed on the Osaka Stock Exchange.^[1] In 1984, the company changed its name to Sanoyas Corporation.^[1] After a 1991 merger with Meisho Co., Ltd. the name was changed once again to Sanoyas Hishino Meisho Corporation.^[1] As of March 2007, the company had a capital base of ¥2.538 billion.^[1]

Shipbuilding and repair

The company's shipbuilding efforts are headquartered at its Mizushima Works and Shipyard.^[7] Here, the company builds bulk carriers and tankers.^[7]

The company specializes in the Panamax-size bulkers, having built about 60 ships of this size.^[7] The company has been able to build bulkers with capacity of up to 83,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) able to pass through the Panama Canal.^[7] Other bulker designs by the company include Handymax-size general bulkers and 52,000 DWT woodchip carriers.^[7]

The company also makes a 115,527 DWT Aframax-size tanker.^[7]

As a spinoff of its shipbuilding business, Sanoyas Hishino Meisho entered the ship repair and refitting business.^[8] This company works on cargo ships, high-speed ships, ferries, tankers, car carriers, floating cranes, dredgers, and all types of work barges.^[8]

The company's Mizushima Works and Shipyard is the company's flagship facility and is located in Kurashiki City in the Okayama Prefecture.^[9] The facility employs advanced shipbuilding techniques using computerized and robotic systems for ship building, repair, conversion, and renovation work. The facility has a shipyard, four wharfs, a dry dock capable of holding up to three ships at once, and 46 cranes with capacity up to 800 metric tons.^[9]

The company's Osaka Works provides many services for the Ship and Steel Structure group and other groups in the company.^[10] The facility has a shipyard, a wharf, and several factories.^[10] Some of the resources there include two dry docks and thirteen cranes with capacity up to 80 metric tons.^[10] The Osaka Ship Repairing Factory has a shop devoted to maintaining the hull and machinery for high-speed ships.^[8]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Company Chronicle.
^ Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Address List.
^ Google 2008, Sanoyas Hishino Meisho.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Groups.
^ Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Structure.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Company Profile.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Newbuilding.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Refitting and Repair.
^ ^a ^b Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Mizushima Works and Shipyard.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sanoyas Hishino Meisho 2007, Osaka Works.
^ Docklands' trouble-plagued observation wheel set to open in ten weeks

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