Maintaining Commercial Quality That Withstands Harsh Operating Environments

The Hoshizaki Group has leveraged unique processing technologies cultivated through years of manufacturing activities, including ice-making mechanism processing technology, stainless steel and copper plate welding technology, and advanced cutting technology, achieving small-lot production of diverse products through systematized large-scale manufacturing facilities. Even now, with product variety diversified due to the increase in group companies, we maintain strict quality standards from the development and design stage and preserve structural designs that can withstand the harsh operating environments of commercial use.

Raising Quality Standards Globally

Following the founder's belief that "good products come from good environments," the Hoshizaki Group fulfills its responsibility as a manufacturer through fair and neutral transactions with business partners, including the supply chain. Hoshizaki Corporation's Global Manufacturing Division strengthens manufacturing technology at each manufacturing site through active engagement with group companies. By sharing equipment investment performance, we understand manufacturing-related costs and delivery times, focusing on maintaining high quality based on the standardization of manufacturing technology. We apply high quality standards to new group companies and strive to minimize quality and defect-related claims.

Equipment Investment Through Group Network

The Hoshizaki Group centrally manages equipment investments worldwide. By understanding delivery times and costs from abundant recent examples, we accelerate management decisions in response to changing needs. Through the network surrounding group companies, we combine various high-quality and cost-effective procurement sources to achieve stable operation of manufacturing sites and ideal manufacturing environments.

For the purchase of high-cost components such as compressors, motors, and heat exchangers, group companies that can purchase in large lots act as windows to negotiate volume discounts for the entire group. In highly competitive markets, we improve productivity while maintaining quality through various cost reductions in procurement.

Manufacturing Technology Evolving by Anticipating Needs

The Hoshizaki Group's rigorous evaluation technology is well-regarded, maintaining high durability throughout the product lifecycle from manufacturing, inventory, transportation, installation, to use. While working toward global standardization of quality, we prevent product failures by considering harsh natural environments such as extreme heat and lightning, as well as voltage differences. The Global Manufacturing Division continues to provide quality support to group companies, keeping repair costs for all products to a minimum. We are also working on developing smart technologies that respond to automation needs in anticipation of labor shortages and AI evolution, and control refrigeration and heating. Such technologies bring innovation to logistics and services, and help solve social issues such as food waste. We also adopt structures in some products that make it easy to separate metals and plastics during product recycling to reduce the environmental impact of the entire manufacturing cycle.