SMC CORPORATION Overview
Company Headquarters: Japan
Founded: 1959
Workforce: ~19,746
Company Working: SMC Corporation is a manufacturer of automatic control equipment. It is also engaged in the manufacture and sale of sintered filters and various types of filtration equipment. It operates through two segments, namely, automatic control equipment and other. The automatic control equipment segment covers the manufacture and sale of filters and control equipment such as directional control valves, actuators, rotary actuators and air grippers, vacuum equipment, air preparation equipment, pressure control equipment, lubrication equipment, fittings and tubing, flow control equipment, and silencers. It also offers exhaust cleaners, blowguns, pressure gauges, sensors, electricity elimination equipment, process valves, chemical valves, needle valves, process pumps, industrial filters, hydraulic equipment, electric actuators, process gas equipment, temperature control equipment, vacuumed equipment, pneumatic instrumentation equipment, and specialized products for general use. The other segment covers its commercial warehousing business. SMC Corporation operates in the US and countries in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Strategy
SMC Corporation follows an organic growth strategy and aims to ensure its market dominance in the automatic control equipment market, which is the company’s stronghold. The company strategizes to enhance its product range to enable it to serve a wider customer base. SMC Corporation focuses on expanding its manufacturing bases outside Japan to other Asian countries to increase its production capabilities.
