As of June 21, we have made organizational revisions. For details, please check the organizational chart page on our website (link below).

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for your continued support of our products. We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new sales office in Hiroshima City, which will enable us to respond quickly to the needs of our customers in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions. (Sales start: April 1) With this, we aim to enhance our service offerings and accurately meet your requests. Hiroshima Office, Western Japan Sales Department, Distribution Sales Section 1-4-18 Futabanosato, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, 732-0057 TEL: (082) 261-5216 FAX: (082) 261-5206

The Osaka office has relocated to the Amagasaki office, which is attached to the Amagasaki factory, over the weekend. Starting today, November 28, we have integrated the Osaka office and the Amagasaki office and commenced operations. (The Amagasaki office name will be discontinued.) We appreciate your continued support. 【Osaka Office】 1-1 Fusōcho, Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture 660-0891 Sales Headquarters, Western Japan Sales Department TEL: 06-6482-1851 FAX: 06-6482-1824 *The phone and fax numbers are the same as those of the former Osaka office. Sales Headquarters, Container Sales Department TEL: 06-6482-3316 FAX: 03-6482-6212

On October 14, 2016, the Tokyo Office (Kanda) was closed and integrated into the Tokyo Office (Omori). We would like to inform you that we started operations at the following Tokyo Office (Omori) on October 17, 2016. 【Tokyo Office】 2-5-13 Sanno, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143-8567, Omori North Exit Building Sales Headquarters, East Japan Sales Department, Distribution Sales Section TEL: 03-3777-1581 FAX: 03-3777-1580 Sales Headquarters, East Japan Sales Department, Project Sales Section TEL: 03-3777-1521 FAX: 03-3777-1567

As of October 11th, the Fukuoka office has relocated to the address below. Please note that both the phone number and fax number have also changed. We appreciate your continued support. 〒810-0802 Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka City, Hakata Ward, Nakasu Nakajima Town 2-3, Fukuoka Fujiland Building TEL: 092-273-1960 FAX: 092-273-1980

As an official blog, we have been providing information on Ameba Blog for about five and a half years. Thank you to everyone who has always been reading. We have decided to end our postings on Ameba Blog and will now be updating on our own unique sites for each business division. If you have bookmarked our Ameba Blog, we would appreciate it if you could change it to the URL below. We look forward to your continued support of Benkan Kiko's new site. [Here is Benkan Kiko's blog site] https://www.benkankikoh.com/blog/ [Here is Benkan's website] http://www.benkan.co.jp

We have established a joint company today, August 1, 2016, combining the welding pipe fitting business of Benkan Co., Ltd. and Nittetsu Sumikin Kiko Co., Ltd. A comment from President Okamoto has been posted on our website news release. 【News Release】 Announcement of the establishment of "Benkan Kiko Co., Ltd." on August 1, 2016. We sincerely appreciate your support for Benkan Kiko Co., Ltd.

We are pleased to announce that we have reached a basic agreement regarding the business integration of Benkan Co., Ltd.'s welded pipe fitting business with Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation.