ABOUT US

MechaTrans® is the name we give to our piezoelectric actuators. The technology behind it was developed and first commercialized for impact dot matrix printers in the 1980s, when I worked at NEC. Printing later moved to other methods such as inkjet, but Professor Toshiro Higuchi of the University of Tokyo saw the promise in the actuator itself and encouraged me to take the technology into other industries.

In 2002 we founded a small company in Tokyo to develop new applications for piezoelectric actuators with high speed and large displacement. In 2005 the name changed from Denshi Seiki to Mechano Transformer Corporation, and the company moved from Tokyo to Kawasaki, just outside the city.

Since then we have developed more than 60 types of piezoelectric actuator and 30 types of drive circuit, and customers around the world use them today.

Mechano Transformer Corporation specializes in core actuator technology, and we are looking for opportunities worldwide to bring new developments to industries such as medicine, energy and agriculture.

We want to be a global company that helps build a better tomorrow, and we get there by developing our people, creating new technology, making products of high quality and giving customers the service they deserve. The company is still small, but we talk with our customers honestly, work hard to meet what they need, and enjoy the process of getting there.

Everyone here is part of the same family. We support each other and encourage people to take on things that stretch them, and watching colleagues grow is the part we treasure most.

I would like to share something of my own background and how I came to this company.

I was born in Malaysia and studied there until I was twenty. I came to Japan in 1997, and I first learned about this company while doing research at the University of Tokyo under Professor Toshiro Higuchi. It was there that I met Dr Takeshi Yano, now our chairman, and we worked together on the amplified piezo actuator. My graduate thesis was on the use of piezoelectric actuators in equipment for removing granular foreign objects.

Even as a student I worked with Dr Yano on solutions for companies that came to us. He then founded Denshi Seiki, the company that became Mechano Transformer Corporation. I worked there part time at first and joined full time in March 2005, after finishing my master’s degree at the University of Tokyo.

This is my twenty first year in Japan, and the country is my second home. My goal is to connect Mechano Transformer with the world through actuator technology, particularly across Asia, where things are changing quickly. I hope our work makes life easier and contributes to a better world.