Koyo Machinery Merges With JTEKT Machinery
This merger formally integrates Koyo into JTEKT Machinery’s operational infrastructure, which expands their capacity for customer service and support.
Koyo Machinery USA will be integrated into JTEKT Machinery’s range of products, services and customer support operations. This merger is said to be an extension of JTEKT Corporation’s global brand unification initiative, which is designed to strategically reshape the company for increased efficiency and greater synergy between group companies.
With the JTEKT affiliation dating back to 2006, this development now formally integrates Koyo into JTEKT Machinery’s operational infrastructure, which expands the capacity for customer service and support.
Expanded capabilities include service responsiveness, a larger spare parts and support organization, strengthened engineering resources and an improved machine and component rebuild division.
Additionally, Koyo Machinery’s operational core will remain in the Detroit area, moving to JTEKT Machinery’s Wixom, Michigan facility. All existing Koyo Machinery customers are encouraged to direct service and parts inquiries to JTEKT Machinery’s primary support lines, while the existing contact Koyo information will remain active for the foreseeable future. Koyo had been headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan.
Koyo machines include centerless, surface and special purpose grinders, such as silicon disc grinders. The company recently demonstrated a new double-disc horizontal grinder that simultaneously grinds both sides of silicon wafers to ±1 micron from as-sliced condition. The DXSG320 performance represents an improvement in accuracy and productivity over the single-spindle vertical grinders common in the chip industry today, which grind to 3-4 microns, according to the company.
