SHIMPO

Currently the core business consists of the production of equipment for arts and crafts and the production and sales of motors and speed regulators. The company has been awarded numerous Japanese and international awards for valuable industrial innovations. Nidec Shimpo employs approximately 1300 people, with its headquarters and main production facilities still based in Kyoto, Japan. Its sales companies located in the USA and China, Shimpo is a reliable manufacturer of potter's wheels with the largest ever-rising market share in the world... NIDEC SHIMPO CORPORATION was founded in 1952 in Kyoto, Japan. In 1958, it launched the revolutionary potter's wheel RK-1, the first potter's wheel with continuous speed regulation. In 1973 ,the company started producing kilns for ceramics, focusing on the US market. The production of the first pug mills for ceramic materials processing started in 1978. Shimpo has gradually gained one market after another and has become the number one producer and..