Addressing customer problems with our expertise

At Watanabe Rubber, we are professionals in manufacturing rubber and plastic molded products.
 

With our experience in meeting a wide variety of customer requests from approximately 400 companies for over 40 years, we have acquired significant expertise.

We use our expertise to turn customers’ product concepts into reality, helping them to manufacture products that are steps ahead of their expectations.

If you have any problems, please allow us to help you solve them. At Watanabe Rubber, we are glad to offer our expertise based on over 40 years of experience.
WATANABE-RUBBER Co., Ltd

Solution 1

Customer: Automobile parts manufacturer

 
Product: Rubber parts for automobiles

Requests: Making improvements after the specifications are proposed
Our regular customer requested product improvements while maintaining quality and cost.

Improvements included:
1) Stabilizing product quality through optimizing the product shape
(Combining mold making and molding technologies to create a drawing proposal)
2) Rubber products that are more durable in cold weather
(Improving product characteristics through researching rubber composition)
3) Meeting specific requests
(Applying special techniques to improve specific functions)

Responding to a wide variety of customer requests, we are working to make improvements using our expertise.

* For confidentiality reasons, we are unable to provide more specific information.

Solution 2

Customer: Equipment case manufacturer

 

Product: Self-service gas station equipment (case)

Requests: The case specifications were already fixed. We were asked to manufacture all of the rubber and plastic parts for the case.

Being asked to manufacture all of the rubber and plastic parts, we were able to achieve a smarter design. More precisely, we were able to reduce the number of components through integrating multiple components into one, improving the design and usability. Our redesigning based on the product concept succeeded in:

1) Reducing the number of components and cost through integrating multiple components into one
2) Improving the design
3) Improving the usability

* For confidentiality reasons, we are unable to provide more specific information.

Solution 3

Customer: Industrial machine manufacturer

Product: Small crane

Requests: Making the motor protection case lighter and more economical



At first, the customer was considering a motor protection case made of metal. However, the strength required for the case could be achieved with plastic. We proposed a motor protection case made of plastic. We had many discussions based on customer design proposals and succeeded in:

1) Optimizing the case shape, achieving sufficient strength
2) Making the case lighter than conventional cases
3) Reducing the cost by making the case with plastic

* For confidentiality reasons, we are unable to provide more specific information.