What an honor!

We are proud to announce that we have been awarded Porter Prize - 2024.

Thanks to our team members (ISOWA-bito), our business partners (TASUKE-bito) and our customers.

"The Porter Prize was established to bestow recognition on Japanese companies that have achieved and maintained superior profitability in a particular industry by implementing unique strategies based on innovations in products, processes, and ways of managing.

The name of the award is derived from Professor Michael E. Porter of Harvard  University, a leading authority on strategy with a longstanding interest in Japan."

"Since the essence of strategy is doing different things from others, the prize will recognize those companies and business units that have deliberately chosen to compete in a distinctive way in a particular industry by delivering a unique value proposition, based on innovations in products, processes, and methods of management. This singular focus on strategy and innovation is what sets the Porter Prize apart from the other awards presented in Japan."

(Quote from Porter Prize website)

 

The reasons for receiving the award are as follows:

ISOWA Corporation is a company specializing in the development, design, manufacture, sales, and maintenance of corrugated machinery. They are a leader in the two major fields of corrugated sheet manufacturing machinery and corrugated box making machinery, with a wide range of products and many patented technologies, especially in the segment of small-lot, high-speed machines.

ISOWA's strategic feature lies in their preventive and planned maintenance services. They convey to customers the losses caused by sudden and long-hour machine stoppages, and the value of preventive maintenance. They go beyond regular parts replacement and offer suggestions to keep customers' production lines running, and encourage customers to use planned maintenance services, and successfully monetized maintenance services. Improving customer satisfaction with maintenance services will also lead to sales of new machines.

Customer satisfaction with field service is highly dependent on the quality of personnel, and ISOWA is reforming its culture ahead of its focus on preventive and planned maintenance services. In 2006, they established a corporate philosophy of "Aiming towards having the best corporate culture in the world where we can work for the happiness of ourselves and our beloved ones". In this atmosphere ISOWA-bito (ISOWA team members) can proactively think and act to satisfy customers on their initiative, and has created the organization made up of colleagues who share "fairness and justice" as a core value.