Draft:Mitsui High-tec

Mitsui High-tec, Inc. is manufacturer of precision tools, dies, and and IC leadframes based in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is listed on the Tokyo and Fukuoka Stock Exchanges.

Mitsui High-tec is named after its founder; it has no connection to the Mitsui Group conglomerate.

Background
Founded in January 1949 in the Tsutsui district of former the Yahata City in Fukuoka Prefecture. It grew to become a leading global manufacturer of tools, dies, and IC parts.

All employees, including office staff, are required to undergo a regimen of training in the machining process. The founder of the company, Mitsui Taka-aki, believed that this was necessary to ensure that all members of the understood just how difficult it is to produce objects that are level, parallel, and vertical relative to the earth, a fundemntal principle of manufacturing.

In recent years, Mitsui High-tec has expanded to focus on production of motor cores for hybrid cards, and and was at one time the sole supplier of these parts for Toyota's hybrid cars.