IWATA, JAPAN — Yamaha Motor Co. announces that it has completed construction of the new Hamamatsu IM Base for the IM Business Unit, now located in Toyooka-cho, Kita-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.

The IM Business Unit houses the development, manufacture and sales of surface mounters and industrial robots.

The building has been under construction since April 2015 with the goal of consolidating the IM Business Unit's previous three offices and factories throughout Hamamatsu into a single facility. The objective of the new facility is to achieve new business scale targets outlined in the medium-term management plan of net sales of Y60 billion and an operating income ratio of 20%. Yamaha Motor Co. is the parent company of Yamaha Motor Corp. USA.

Yamaha Motor president and representative director Hiroyuki Yanagi, managing executive officer and chief general manager of Vehicle & Solution Business Operations Toshizumi Kato, executive general manager of the IM Business Unit Hiroyuki Ota and some 200 guests attended the recent opening ceremony, where a traditional Shinto ritual was performed to offer prayers for the facility’s safety, followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The IM Business Unit is working to establish a high-profitability business model by leveraging Yamaha Motors advantages of speedy management through integrated development, manufacturing and sales operations, and expanding sales channels to include the automotive, home appliance and LED, mobile phone and electronics manufacturing services (EMS) fields.

Yamaha makes SMT surface mounters, solder paste printers, dispensers, and inspection systems. plus a comprehensive lineup of industrial robots and peripheral equipment designed for industrial automation, from single-axis, Cartesian, SCARA and articulated robots to image processing systems and linear conveyor modules.