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Manufacturing Network

Koei works with production partners in China and Japan to support different product requirements.

The two sections below show a factory floor in China and a workshop in Tajimi, Japan.

China

Production in China

Koei works with a production partner in China for factory forming and firing. These photographs follow that floor: the production hall, forming equipment, bowls in progress, and the kiln.

  1. Interior of a ceramic factory hall, looking along a production line with plates on a conveyor and stacks of plates beside the machinery.
    Production line in the factory hall, with plates on the conveyor.
  2. Forming machine with round plates seated in molds beneath a press, along a yellow safety guard.
    Plates in molds on a forming machine.
  3. Close view of matte white bowls lined up on wooden boards, with more bowls receding into the background.
    Matte white bowls lined up on wooden boards.
  4. A tall wheeled rack in a factory, its wooden shelves filled with stacks of white bowls.
    White bowls stacked on the wooden shelves of a wheeled rack.
  5. Shelves of white plates and bowls standing beside an open kiln with a visible flame.
    White plates and bowls on shelves beside an open kiln.
  6. Kiln cars stacked with glossy white plates, bowls, and cups.
    Glossy white plates, bowls, and cups on kiln cars.

Japan

Maruhei Seitosho (丸半製陶所)

Tajimi, Japan

Maruhei Seitosho (丸半製陶所), in Tajimi, Japan, is Koei’s Japanese manufacturing partner.

[CONFIRM: Relationship wording] Please confirm the sentence above. It introduces Maruhei Seitosho as Koei’s Japanese manufacturing partner in Tajimi. Maruhei’s role on specific orders, and whether other Japanese workshops should be named, still needs your review.

Inside our Japanese partner’s workshop

A Japanese television feature showing clay preparation, forming, hand attachment of cup handles, firing, finishing, and an interview with the company president.

Discuss a production requirement

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