Business history

Our company was founded in 1958 as a trading company specializing in Bridgestone vibration-damping rubber. Today, we operate as a “technology trading company” that is not limited to specific products, but provides the products and services necessary to solve our customers’ challenges. In addition to our procurement capabilities and logistics infrastructure, which leverage our domestic and international networks, we utilize the strengths of our dedicated quality and engineering departments to provide comprehensive support for our customers’ manufacturing processes—from quality control and technical support to procurement and logistics. As a “technology trading company” that combines the network of a trading firm with the innovative thinking of a manufacturer, we continue to take on the challenge of solving our customers’ problems and creating new value.

01 Our Business, Which Has Grown Alongside Our Customers

Our business did not start out as it is today.
When we were first founded, we began by selling vibration-damping rubber. However,
as we listened to our customers and continued to address each challenge head-on,
we expanded our business into the areas necessary to solve our customers’ problems—from product
sales to quality and technical support, domestic and international
procurement and logistics, in-house product development,
and joint development with customers. Walking alongside
our customers and growing together with them is the very foundation of KBG.

02 What We Value

We do not own our own manufacturing facilities. …… However, this is not a weakness—it is, in fact, one of our strengths. This is because we have built a flexible structure that allows us to collaborate with the best partners to solve our customers’ problems and deliver value in the most effective way possible. We listen closely to our customers’ challenges, think alongside them, and tackle these challenges together. Then, we provide the necessary technologies, products, and systems in the most appropriate form. This has been our unwavering approach since our founding.

03 To a Company That Creates the Future Together with Customers

Although we are a trading company, we are more than just a firm that procures and sells products. By sincerely addressing our customers’ challenges, thinking alongside them, and taking on challenges together, we have created new value. Drawing on the knowledge, expertise, and network we have cultivated since our founding, we will continue to stand by our customers and society, striving to “contribute to the world.”

KBG's Stance / Philosophy

• "Protective Technology" Backed by Knowledge and Experience

  Based on the knowledge and expertise we have cultivated over many years, our "technical capability to select" the most appropriate products for each customer's specific issues is our major strength. By carefully analyzing detailed usage conditions and environments to derive optimal solutions from various manufacturers and products, we fully protect our customers' safety, security, and comfort.

  

• Becoming an Entity Possessing the "Power to Create" Despite Being a Trading Company

  As a "trading company capable of in-house development," we can consistently handle everything from drawing design to specification creation and production. Instead of having our own factory, we cooperate firmly with excellent business partners. Moving beyond simple sourcing and sales, we respond by "creating" products ourselves to solve customer challenges, such as our independently developed sound-absorbing material "QonPET."

  

• True Partnership Born Only from Overcoming Difficult Challenges

  To turn our customers' desires to "create" into reality, we accompany them from the upstream stages of development to commercialization, covering everything from improvement proposals for existing products to zero-base challenges. Even for complex consultations that require re-evaluating material development from scratch, we tackle them in unity with suppliers and manufacturers, continuing to propose optimal solutions as a true partner trusted to deliver.