a next generation material LIMEX, TBM Co., Ltd

2015/12/17

The 2nd LIMEX plant location agreement signing ceremony was held at Tagajo city,Miyagi

We held the location agreement signing ceremony at Tagajo City, Miyagi.
Selected for the “The National Subsidy for the Corporate Location Giving Job Creation in the Area Damaged by Tsunami and Nuclear Power” by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry at November 27,2015, we have decided to invest a total of 6.65 billion to build a mass-production plant by Dec. 2017.
This plant is supposed to produce 30,000 tons of LIMEX, and to recruit 60 local employees by the time the plant starts running, and the number of employees will grow to 80 in a few years. The location agreement will be made with Tagajo city prior to the construction of the plant, and we will secure 27,500m² area in San Mirai Tagajo Reconstruction Complex(Ippon-yanagi industrial Complex), a leading reconstruction base of the city.
In the future, with the newly established mass-production plant being a model plant, LIMEX technology will be exported oversea, especially to areas with water shortage. We will make great devotion for the world through creating new businesses and new jobs with our Japanese innovations, and for the solutions to water and oil issues in the world as well. For details, please refer to the Press Release. (Japanese version only)

＞Press Release

2015/11/27

Selected for the “Subsidy for the location of businesses for creating employment in the affected areas by the tsunami and the nuclear accident” by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Division in Charge: Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau ,Regional Economic and Industrial Policy Group, Industrial Facilities Division Release
Date: November 27, 2015

Overview of the subsidy program:
This subsidy program aims to facilitate companies’ establishment of new business facilities and create jobs in order to accelerate the industrial reconstruction in the areas inundated by the tsunami in Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki Prefectures, which experienced particularly great damage due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, and in evacuation zones in Fukushima Prefecture severely affected by the nuclear power plant accident and where the evacuation order has been lifted, by partially subsidizing their cost of building new or additional factories and other facilities.

2015/08/27

Attended the 40th Japan Cooperation Forum for the Middle East (Munich, Germany)

(The 40th Japan Cooperation Forum for the Middle East)
Theme: The oil market and business opportunities and the confusion in eastern Asia and Northern Africa
Date: August 27,28, 2015
Country: Munich, Germany
Place: Hilton Munich Park

2015/05/31

Capital grows to 2 billion 539 million 200 thousand yen (Including legal capital surplus)

As of May 31, 2015, our capital reached a total amount of 2 billion and 539 million and 200 thousand yen under third-party allocation of shares.

2015/05/01

Participated the Milano EXPO 2015, LIMEX products were used in Japan Exhibition Hall

he new and ecofriendly material generated from Japanese technology, LIMEX, was applied in the Japan Exhibition Hall in posters, paper bags and stamp rally cards for children.

2015/04/13

Appeared in the Nikkei Factory in Miyagi creates yearly 6000 tons of new paper material made from limestone

April 13, 2015. An article about our company appeared in Smaller Business Column of the Nikkei.We would like you to read this article so that the word LIMEX could be known widely.

2015/04/06

Notification of our Headquarters’ new address

We appreciate greatly your honored attention given to us so far.
We would like to inform you that with the operation of a new plant and a target to further expand our business, we have relocated our headquarters to the addre recorded here below. We will continue to try our best to meet your requirements, and at the same time look forward to your continuous attention and support to us.

TBM Co., Ltd
Chief Executive Officer, Nobuyoshi Yamasaki

New Address
the 10th Floor of Tokyo Ginko Kyokai Building
1-3-1 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
TEL: +81 03-6212-7270
FAX: +81 03-6212-7271

Business Start Date: April 6, 2015

2015/03/31

Capital grows to 2 billion 259 million yen (Including legal capital surplus)

As of March 31, 2015, our capital reached a total amount of 169 million 200 thousand yen under third-party allocation of shares.

2015/02/28

Capital grows to 2 billion 89 million 800 thousand yen (Including legal capital surplus)

As of February 28, 2015, our capital reached a total amount of 589 million 800 thousand yen under third-party allocation of shares.

2015/02/25

Appeared in Senkey, a journal of economy information

Senkey, the Sendai local journal of economy information published an article about our new plant and LIMEX. Interviews with our chairman, Mr. Sumi, as the pioneer engineer and with the plant’s chief director, Hosoya, also appeared in the journal.

Click here to purchase the back number of Senkey.

2015/02/06

The 1st LIMEX plant, designed by Kengo Kuma, is completed.

On the 6th of February, the opening ceremony of our new plant was held. We would like to thank everyone involved for their long hard work.

Our Chief Executive Officer, Nobuyoshi Yamasaki and our chairman, the chief Technology Advisor Sumi, pressed on the switch of the production line.

It was thanks to the great effort of Kengo Kuma And Associates that this 1 billion 900 million yen project was able to be finished. It is also thanks to all that who have so far supported us that we are now able to make the word, LIMEX known to the world.

The workers of our plant are local residences. We will work hard with them to solve various problems regarding product development and improvement.

Starting with this new plant, we, all that involved, will united as one to work harder to establish the second and third plants, and make “LIMEX” plants spread in the world.

2015/02/02

Selected as a sponsor of the Japan Exhibition Hall at EXPO Milano 2015

With a high evaluation on our LIMEX, a new ecology material under the original Japanese technology, we were selected by Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as a sponsor of the Japan Exhibition Hall at EXPO Milano 2015. LIMEX products are widely used at the Japan Exhibition Hall, which turns to be a first and great stage for LIMEX to be known in the world.

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