Company Profile

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and sells needle roller bearings, linear motion rolling guides, precision positioning tables, and machine components under the IKO brand in Japan, North America, and Asia. The company offers electronic electronics-related devices and equipment to be used in computers and LCD TVs, display manufacturing equipment, electronic component mounting machines, electronic parts testing and inspection equipment, etc; precision devices for laboratory measuring instruments and hospital medical equipment; industrial equipment for use in robots, construction machines, printing machines and textile machines; machine tools to be used in lathes, machining centers, multi-axis machining centers, grinding machines and electric discharge machines; and transportation equipment, such as automobiles, motorcycles, railcars and aircraft. It also provides linear motion rolling guides/linear motion rolling guide series; needle roller bearings, and linear motion rolling guides/mechatronics series. The company was formerly known as Daiichi-Kogyo Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. in 1963. The company was incorporated in 1950 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.