Nidec Drive Technology Opens New Press Machine Assembly Factory

Nidec Drive Technology Corp., a Nidec Group company, announced that it held a ceremony to open its new press machine assembly factory in the city of Ritto, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, on April 15. This factory will double Nidec Drive Technology’s Japanese domestic production capacity from 60 to 120 press machines per year, while expanding its product lineup of largest machines from 150 T. to 330 T. With the new factory, Nidec can further decentralize its Asian production bases and is poised to build a system to better handle geopolitical risks to supply products more stably and respond to global demand fluctuation both promptly and flexibly, the company said. Located on the premises of Nidec Machine Tool Corp. (a Nidec Group company that manufactures machine tools and other products), this factory will share with its machine tool processing equipment and measuring technology and service system to promote technology fusion between and cross-selling of machine tools and press machines. Visitors to this facility will be able to see gear machine tools, machining centers, lathes and presses.