Our business activities focusing on two main activities: heat treatment, and industrial furnaces. In the heat treatment business we apply heat treatment to automobile engine parts and gears to improve strength, while in the industrial furnace business we manufacture, sell and maintain heat treatment facilities.
A huge amount of energy is used for heat treatment as it is conducted under an extremely high temperatures. Therefore, energy saving is one of the challenges of conservation management to protect the earth's environment. We set our goals of developing and implementing highly efficient facilities and equipment, improvement of heat treatment conditions and increased productivity. We are steadily achieving the goals. Recently we have started to reuse industrial wastes such as used oil, and stopped importing and using chemical substances that are prohibited to use in Europe, aimed at further reducing environmental risks.
Our business activities are deployed in U.S.A, Thailand, China, India and Indonesia and will aggressively expand our business overseas. Along with globalization of business, we take part in environmental conservation activities both in Japan and abroad. We endeavor to reduce environmental burden in our business activities and contribute to building a sustainable society through our business activities.
Dowa Thermotech (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Address: 300/33 Moo 4, Tambol Tasit, Amphur Pluakdaeng, Rayong 21140, Thailand
Employees: 51 (as of the end of March 2013)
DOWA Thermotech's Core Business Base in South East Asia
Dowa Thermotech Thailand (DTH Thailand) was established in 2007 to respond to the needs of Japanese automobile manufacturers abroad to procure parts locally as part of DOWA Thermotech's deployment in Asia. The company is the first of DOWA Thermotech in South East Asia and is located in the Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate in Rayong Province, approximately 150 km away from Bangkok. The area is called the Detroit of South East Asia, as many automobile industries gather there.
More than 100 facilities and equipment have been sold and delivered to Thailand. Our company started as a service provider to repair, maintain and modify those facilities and equipment. Now we are engaged in heat treatment and processing mainly for automobile parts and agricultural machine parts as well as maintenance service of heat treatment facilities and equipment manufactured by DOWA.
DOWA's Heat Treatment Technology Utilized Abroad
Heat treatment and processing is an indispensable technology applied to the surface of metal parts for automobiles and electric appliances that require abrasion resistance property and anti-corrosion characteristic to make them stronger, lighter and last longer. DOWA Thermotech has accumulated heat treatment and processing technologies and know-how in Japan for a long time. We brought in the furnaces of our own making into DTH and provide our customers with the same reliable heat treatment and processing of stable quality as in Japan. We use 
carburizing and quenching heat treatment, in which carbon is penetrated into the steel surface to make metal parts stronger and last longer.
We will respond to ever-increasing demands of South East Asian markets by enhancing our facilities and equipment, focusing on carburizing process like our plants in Japan and introducing the gas soft-nitriding process in 2012.
| We use the heat treatment facilities and equipment (carburizing and quenching) furnace that were used in Japan here in our Thailand plant. Energy saving performance of the furnace is less than the latest ones, as the heat source of our furnace is all electricity and advanced heat insulating materials are not used. However, we devise ways to save energy on the operational side of the heat treatment furnace by consolidating operations or processes to more closely match the actual demand. |  |
Haruyoshi Hirano
President of Dowa Thermotech (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
Our Efforts for Safety
CCCF Activity started
In DTH Thailand, we are engaged in the 5S Activity, the CCCF Activity and the Safety & 5S Patrol. We are currently encouraging the Complete Check and Complete Find-Out (CCCF) Activity that started in January 2011.
In the CCCF Activity, we have an educational session on this activity once a year. We have a drill called "Genchi Genbutsu Katsudo" twice a year to actually go to the source and find out the facts to make correct decisions. Through these activities we find out all dangerous points in the workplace. We take measures to improve A-ranked dangerous facilities and equipment through 
risk analysis as a top priority, prepare work standards and educate employees. We encourage activities and visualize safety control by sharing the progress statuses of these activities among employees using signboards.
We will continue to strengthen our efforts for labor safety and hygiene through these activities in a step-by-step fashion, aiming at the workplace of "zero accident and zero disaster."
I feel most challenged with the CCCF Activity and the Safe Driving Campaign in my daily operational activities. In the Safe Driving Campaign I check if employees wear a helmet or not when they drive a motorcycle or if a driver and passengers use their seat belt in cars. I feel I am doing something worthy as these activities are very useful for safety of employees. However, I feel it difficult to thoroughly check the safety of the workplace and promote safety activities in cooperation with all employees. I will continue to strive to make our workplace safer, encourage employee's active participation in safety activities and raise safety awareness of employees.
Nongkran Sridech
Safety & Environment Officer
Safe Driving Campaign
We started the Safe Driving Campaign as part of the CCCF Activity in 2011. Many companies in Thailand are promoting this campaign. In Dowa Thermotech (Thailand) Co., Ltd. we check if employees wear a helmet on a motorcycle or use seat belts in cars when they commute. Traffic accidents happen quite often in Thailand. Traffic accidents are a serious social problem. We try to raise awareness of employees on safety both on the work site and during commuting through the campaign.
