Hitachi Koki Group Offers Consistent Quality Worldwide Established in 1948 in Japan, Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd. maintains its position as one of world’ s leading power tool manufacturers. The Hitachi Koki Group including the Research and Development Division in Japan and its sales subsidiaries in more than 30 countries* around the world continues to be to contribute to society by offering innovative, 1 high-performance and high-quality products and services that result in a high level of customer satisfaction. The Group strictly evaluates quality at each of the development, design and manufacturing stages and conducts a final check of products from the customer’ s perspective. Quality evaluation tests product performance, functions and durability under various test conditions. In addition, for the accurate measurement of component dimensions, it adopted the use of three-dimensional digitizers in 2001. Utilizing three-dimensional data prepared during the design phase, each component’ s complicated external dimensions can be measured with a high degree of precision in a short time. This helps maintain quality and reduce development time. The Group has high-level production technologies for faster commercialization of high-performance, high-quality products. These include technologies for motor manufacturing and precision processing that support production of the latest brushless motors, rapid prototyping with the latest 3D printers, and facility automation with intelligent robots. With in-house development facilities that use these technologies and a highly skilled workforce, the Hitachi Koki Group has achieved a highly efficient and flexible production system. The Group deploys these powerful production technologies at its all manufacturing bases worldwide to support its highly efficient, high-quality production activities. The figures of battery capacity are nominal values. Refer to p.75-76 for charging times.