Howa Machinery 

Howa Machinery, Ltd. provides machine tools, pneumatic and hydraulic equipment, electronic machines, sweepers, metal joinery fittings, and firearms in Japan. The company's machine tools include machining centers, transfer lines, and standard machine tool units for transfer lines; and pneumatic and hydraulic equipment comprising power chucks, rotating cylinders, rodless slit and magnetic type cylinders, hydraulic and pneumatic clamp cylinders, hydraulic jig cylinders, rotary actuators, and hydraulic cylinders. It also provides electronic machines, which include exposure systems for printed circuit boards, ceramic green sheet-related equipment, and testing systems for mounted circuit boards; and street and industrial sweepers, and scrubbers, as well as sporting rifles. The company was formerly known as Howa Heavy Industries, Ltd. and changed its name to Howa Machinery, Ltd. in 1945. Howa Machinery, Ltd. was incorporated in 1907 and is headquartered in Kiyosu, Japan.