It has become early Autumn and the sounds of the insects are heard in the evening.

September is the month of financial settlement for Yamashin.

Yamashin becomes 50 years old, since the 50th Business term ends this September.

 

In celebration of 50th anniversary, we have decided to change our company name.

A new company name is "YAMASHIN-FILTER CORP."  (effective October 1, 2005)

The change in name will make it clear that Yamashin is the company of filter development,

manufacture, and sales. It is also the declaration to be a public campany in the future.

 

"Yamashin" was established on April 1956 by my father Masahiko Yamazaki.

One day in 1955, on the way from customer he happened to glanced upon a superb building

called, "SanShin Building" at Hibiya in Tokyo. 

This made him think that someday if he can build his own company, it would be nice to name

it after that superb building. So he proceeded to name his company, "Sanshin Kogyo Co. Ltd.",

However most of his clients were calling it on another way of reading Japanese "Kanji" as

"Yamashin Kogyo". So, finally and officially he changed it to "Yamashin Kogyo Co.Ltd.".

 

Since I was born in 1953, "Yamashin Kogyo Co. Ltd." in my memory was really shabby.

Although the workplace was at Kamata in Tokyo and our house was located in another place,

more often than not my father would bring back home his work..

At that time our house was like a shack and my mother and our grandmother were helping in

the job. Even me and my younger sister were considerably forced to help them.

Even now, I believe I can make a filter element excellently.

I still remember there were a signboard of "Yamashin Kogyo Co. Ltd." written in the superb

Japanese characters both at Kamata and our home.

It has passed a long long time since I got acquainted with "Yamashin Kogyo Co. Ltd.".

 

Company names bearing western style forms are very popular in Japan now, but I made the

new name "YAMASHIN-FILTER CORP." with my best gratitude and respect to the tradition

and history of "Yamashin". Of course my father acknowledges and accepted this new name.

In the near future, I will try to get "YAMASHIN-FILTER CORP." into the JASDAQ.

I will make more efforts to build excellent "Yamashin" as my father dreamed 50 years ago.

 

Though there may be some troubles or problems with a transition to a new company name,

I will be grateful for your kind understandings and supports.

 

I hope for your continued patronage and support for the Yamashin Filter Group.

President

Yamashin Filter Manufacturing Corporation