Japanese Tool Firm Muromoto In Local Plan

Japanese pneumatic and hand-tool company Muromoto Tekko Company plans to launch its products in the Indian market through a Pune-based trading firm, Arhan Trades.

The company is also looking at a strong nation-wide dealer network to look after sales and service of all its products by the year-end.

The Japanese firm will market its Nile brand of pneumatic tools and Merry brand of hand-tools, which are said to be popular in Japan and are being widely used by leading Japanese automotive and white good manufacturers such as Toyota, Honda, Suzuki, Sony, Sharp, Matsushita, Sanyo and others.

"Our products are popular in Japan, East Asia and Europe. Until now we never ventured into marketing any of our products in India with our direct efforts, although some Japanese companies which have set up shop in India already use our tools brought from Japan, in their assembly lines. We are confident that the introduction of our tools in India will greatly enhance productivity and improve quality of end products", said Osamu Muromoto, president of Muromoto Tekko Co.

Muromoto Tekko introduced Merry brand of hand tools in 1927 and since then continuous improvements and innovations have been made.

"We hope our Merry tools like cable cutters to cut cables, plastic cutting nipper tools, heat nippers, special innovative application pliers, palm grip cutters, plastic duct cutters, conduit pipe cutters, plica tube cutters, polyethylene, rubber, plastic tube cutters will get popularity in the Indian market and will eventually eliminate traditional manual cutting methods used until now, which are unsafe for operators and also result in major operator fatigue. For example, our mini wire stripper tool enables stripping to perfect size with better strip quality, eliminating cable wastage and operator fatigue," Muromoto claimed.

Besides Nippers (power cutters), which are also popular in the electrical industry power tools such as cable stripper, air twister, wire twister and other applications.

The pneumatic cable stripper concept is new to the Indian industry. The company will market various types of strippers to strip cables up to a diameter of 30 mm and stripping length of 200 mm.

Different types of single, shielded, multi-core, flat and two-stage cables can be stripped, using these power cutters and their blades are designed to suit the respective cable application.

This pneumatic cable stripper will boost the productivity of the electrical industry and provide a constant strip length, without damaging the conductors, thus enhancing the quality. Earlier methods used hand pliers, which is time consuming.

"Our other innovative power tool is the one-shot hammer. We developed this tool specially for Japanese automobile manufacturers, to insert bushings, bearings, collars, pins, oil seals etc. in engine assemblies, thereby increasing productivity and minimising noise pollution. Air shears is another useful product to cut thin metal sheets, plastic plates etc. The heavy-duty air saw is used to cut 6 mm, 9 mm steel and 30 mm plastics. The file-saw combination is used to achieve both cutting and filing operations, with the same tool", Muromoto elaborated on the vast application of its tools.