Shizuo Koike

Part of Ai Holdings Corp., Advance Food Technology Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and distributes fine metal parts detecting machines. The private company is based in Toyohashi, Japan. Advance Food Technology Co. was acquired by Ai Holdings Corp. on March 16, 2017.

Graphtec Corp. manufactures printing equipment. It offers several different printing technologies including pen, direct imaging, and thermal transfer, some of which are also applied to Graphtec's measuring instrument product lines. The firm also develops imaging products, such as grit, flatbed cutter and scnanner, and instruments, such as logger and recorders. The company was founded on March 30, 1949 and is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan.