SMC 

Globally, SMC Corporation specializes in the production, processing, and distribution of automated control devices, alongside a wide array of sintered and general filtration equipment. Its comprehensive product line encompasses a broad spectrum of industrial automation components. These include various control valves; air and electric actuators like cylinders and grippers; vacuum solutions; and complete air preparation, pressure regulation, and lubrication systems. The company also supplies an assortment of fittings, tubing, flow control devices, speed controllers, and a range of ancillary equipment such as silencers, gauges, sensors, controllers, and static neutralization units. For specialized industrial processes, SMC offers process valves, chemical liquid handling components, pumps, temperature and process gas control systems, high vacuum apparatus, and both industrial and sintered metal filters, alongside pneumatic instrumentation and hydraulic equipment. Established in 1959 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the enterprise was initially named Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd. before formally adopting its current designation, SMC Corporation, in April 1986.