Summary:
A Japanese company specialized in the production of magnesium assistive devices is offering its services to EU companies in this sector.
Magnesium is notorious for its toughness, but through expertise and skill the Japanese company managed to succeed in manipulating it and developed its own brand of frames for canes and wheelchairs.
The company is offering its know-how for original equipment manufacturing under the form of a manufacturing, outsourcing, or subcontracting agreement.
Description:
A Japanese company founded in 2010 in Shizuoka prefecture is looking to bring their expertise in working with magnesium to the EU. They are capable of manufacturing a variety of assistive devices and their components using magnesium. Their offered products consist of semi-final products of walking canes, quad canes, and a frame for wheelchairs made of magnesium alloy.
Magnesium is one of the lightest metals available in the world and therefore matches well with assistive devices. Although magnesium is notorious for its toughness and being hard to bend and weld, the Japanese company has acquired the necessary expertise and technological ability to make skilful manipulation of its form and shape possible.
The Japanese companies’ semi-final products also can be sold as an original brand cane with original colouring. The products are aimed at the high-end market where there is demand for factors such as a unique design, colour, function, light weight, and high durability. They are also capable of customizing the products based on the wishes of EU customers.
In their domestic market they sell their products through e-commerce channels, via a partner agent company, and through collaborative production. They have collaborated on products used by professional para-athletes in large global sporting events.
With this background the Japanese company would like to engage with EU partners in the assistive devices market and consider manufacturing, outsourcing or subcontracting agreements. A manufacturing agreement can involve OEM (original equipment manufacturing) services from the Japanese company to the EU partner for original brand canes. EU partners are also welcome to outsource production of their products to the Japanese company, or propose a subcontracting agreement. For new first-time orders, the company provides a quick OEM service from design to shipment between 1 to 3 months depending on the manufacturing specificities of the request.
Type (e.g. company, R&D institution…), field of industry and Role of Partner Sought:
The Japanese company is looking for EU partners that are involved in the manufacturing of assistive device such as canes and wheelchairs. These partners should have a strong position in the assistive devices industry. The EU partner should be in need of a partner that can manufacture OEM products, or should be looking for a partner to which they can outsource or subcontract their production.
The Japanese company is also eager to meet companies that have products or services for para-athletes, due to their own experience producing products such as wheelchairs and hand rims, as a subcontractor, for para-athletes in Japan. If the EU partner has similar connections it is considered a plus.
External code:
BOJP20210914001
