DOWA METALTECH provides high quality copper alloy, plated products and metal ceramic PCBs focusing on automobile and electronic parts. Metaltech is developing cutting-edge technologies and products while watching over what our customers need as well as keeping an eye on market trends related to new materials and electroplated coating. Metaltech has established a global supply system that can respond to market needs on a timely basis by expanding business bases focusing in Asia.
Business Fields
| Metal processing business |
Plating business | PCB business |
Main Products and Services
Copper, brass, copper alloy strip, nickel alloy strip, brass bar, forged product from brass, products plated with precious metals, metal ceramic PCB, etc.
<Introduction of one of Main Plants of DOWA Metaltech>
Diversified Plating Lines,
Responding to Wide Range of Needs
Supporting for Globalization of Japanese Companies
DOWA METALTEC (THAILAND) is located in Gateway city Industrial Estate, Chachoengsao Province, processes coil-shaped copper and copper alloy called copper and copper alloy strip and provide silver, nickel and tin to local Japanese automobile parts manufacturers. Metaltec Thailand has the cutting-edge equipment and facilities equivalent to those in Japan, Metaltec Thailand supports Japanese companies in Thailand through promoting local procurement by offering the same level of mass-production quality found in Japan. Imported copper materials from companies within the DOWA group ensures consistent quality from raw material to the end plated products.
Metaltech Thailand will expand its plant and increase its equipment and facilities, responding to Asian automobile markets that are expected to have continuous growth. The new plant will be twice as large as the present one and employ environmentally-friendly design, with all LED lighting system and also use of natural ventilation and light.
Building a Resource-Recycling System on a Global Basis
Metaltech Thailand has established a recycling flow of metal scrap generated in the production process utilizing the network of the DOWA group. Precious metals for plating are recovered in the smelting and refining plants in Singapore and Japan, while copper is recovered as base material in Dowa Metal in Shizuoka Prefecture and used again in Metaltech Thailand as raw material. This wide-range recovery system covering Thailand, Singapore and Japan is the strength of the DOWA group that conducts its business on a global basis.
Metaltech Thailand reports to Thai Government every year on traceability from transportation to transshipment, delivery to plants and each recycling process clearly and promotes recycling under properly managed recycling system.
Pattaya Krongwaeng
I am responsible for the line for precious metal plating where copper strips are plated with silver and nickel. As a supervisor, I handle any abnormal conditions that occur in the process for quality improvement. For example, we added a new equipment that has a separate mechanism from the existing drying facility and reduced in-process losses. This enabled us to achieve zero defects related to insufficient drying that used to occur after the plating process. I will handle the expansion of existing lines or starting up of new lines, capitalizing on my experience.
Napaporn Bootamkha
Promoting "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle"systematically is an important philosophy of our company that aims at being a sustainable and eco-friendly company. For example, as part of customer service, we buy back copper and brass scrap for recycling of the material that we originally sold to them. Proper preparation of documents and permits for this purpose is part of environmental conservation and at the same time increases the trust from customers. It is one of our environmental initiatives based on our business policy: "to comply with laws, continue to save energy and promote 3R's activities as part of environmental conservation and aim at an eco-friendly company."
Employing Intern Students from a Local University
DOWA METALTECH (THAILAND) puts in place a paid internship program and accepts several intern students from a local university (Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University) in Chachoengsao every year. We accepted three students in 2013 and they experienced on-the-job training for three years in the machine maintenance department and accounts department. We employed intern students in past and some of them are still working in the maintenance department DOWA stays rooted deep in local communities and we work together on developing local communities. We are committed to creating employment and improving nurturing human resources, aimed at to be a workplace where local staff want to work for a long time.
