Nidec builds tech center to exhibit machine tools under ‘One Nidec’ policy

Nidec builds tech center to exhibit machine tools under ‘One Nidec’ policy

Nidec Corporation plans to construct a technical center to exhibit a comprehensive lineup of its machine tools on Nidec Machine Tool Corporation's premises in the city of Ritto, Shiga Prefecture.

October 16, 2024

Nidec Corporation plans to construct a technical center to exhibit a comprehensive lineup of its machine tools on Nidec Machine Tool Corporation's premises in the city of Ritto, Shiga Prefecture.

After the construction is finished in November 2025, this facility is expected to promote Nidec as a "comprehensive machine tool manufacturer," and showcase lathes, machining centers, gear machine tools, laser beam machines, and many other major machine tools of the Nidec Group, while offering optimum manufacturing solutions based on our group's excellent technologies and knowhow, including lathe-turning/" data-glossary-id="141783" data-glossary-teaser="Machining operation in which a workpiece is rotated, while a cutting tool removes material, either externally or internally." title="Machining operation in which a workpiece is rotated, while a cutting tool removes material, either externally or internally." aria-label="Glossary: lathe-turning/" data-glossary-id="141783" data-glossary-teaser="Machining operation in which a workpiece is rotated, while a cutting tool removes material, either externally or internally." title="Machining operation in which a workpiece is rotated, while a cutting tool removes material, either externally or internally." aria-label="Glossary: lathe turning">lathe turning">lathe turning, cutting, grinding, and metallic lamination forming.

Going forward, Nidec Group companies will build similar facilities overseas, and stay united under the "One Nidec" policy to be able to serve our customers the same way around the world.

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Top: NIDEC's technical center. Above: Machine tools among those to be exhibited at the technical center.

Glossary terms in this article

  • lathe turning
    Machining operation in which a workpiece is rotated, while a cutting tool removes material, either externally or internally.
  • grinding
    Machining operation in which material is removed from the workpiece by a powered abrasive wheel, stone, belt, paste, sheet, compound, slurry, etc. Takes various forms: surface grin…
  • turning
    Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery…
  • lathe
    Turning machine capable of sawing, milling, grinding, gear-cutting, drilling, reaming, boring, threading, facing, chamfering, grooving, knurling, spinning, parting, necking, taper…