About Us
If you want to learn more about us, you’re in the right place. Read to learn who we are and how we managed to grow our business so fast.
Guiding Principle
There is always a right way to do something. It is our duty to ourselves, our company, and our clients to find that right way.
Vision
To be the world’s leading outside sales, service and engineering company specializing in high precision electronics assembly.
Mission
Ito Group increases our suppliers’ prosperity by increasing the efficiency of our customers’ operations.
Guiding Principle
There is always a right way to do something. It is our duty to ourselves, our company, and our clients to find that right way.
Vision
To be the world’s leading outside sales, service and engineering company specializing in high precision electronics assembly.
Mission
Ito Group increases our suppliers’ prosperity by increasing the efficiency of our customers’ operations.
Who We Are
The white character in the green globe symbolizes our name, and also a person with their hands outstretched, offering help. It captures both who we are and what we do.
We are a team of 100+ professionals spread across 17 locations in key manufacturing and R&D centers around the world. Our headquarters is in Singapore, but we are an international organization with employees from 9 different countries and speaking over 15 languages.
Ito was founded in Japan in 1946 and maintains a strong core of dedication, responsibility, and attention to detail that stems from this Japanese heritage. Approximately 25% of our employees are Japanese, with the remaining 75% largely spread across Asia. Our CEO, Peter Opdahl, is a US national with an MBA from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management and four years of education in Japan at the high school, university, and graduate school levels. Our core is Japanese, but with an international mindset, and we always try to take the best of every culture and incorporate that into who we are.
We focus on technology. As a unique hybrid organization of sales, service, and engineering professionals, we believe that we cannot sell unless we first gain the trust of our customers. Trust comes from being financially sound, keeping our professional and ethical commitments, and providing our customers with the best technical service and support they could ever expect. We can only do this by being experts in the products and technologies that we sell, so we educate, train, and provide other necessary support to our people to make this possible. We now have over 50 degreed engineers on staff in Ito Group and only expect that number to increase as we move forward.
We believe that operational efficiency is the key to business success. Our belief — in fact our Mission Statement — is that if we can increase the efficiency of our customers’ operations, they will make more money and will in turn do more business with us. To do this, we need to work hard at understanding how technology is used in the real world of the factory floor. This is why we spend so much time in factories, and it is why we hire engineers and local staff; If we cannot understand our customer’s manufacturing problems the same way that they do, we cannot help them with a complete solution.
We do not do everything. Our overall focus is on technologies and products where we can provide outstanding support and a high level of technical sophistication. Our customers expect this, our suppliers expect this, and we expect this of ourselves. We do carry a range of products, but they are all linked together into product sets that compliment and reinforce each other. This allows us to provide individual products as well as total solutions to our customers. Ultimately, if you need a standard product straight from the catalog, we can provide it. We are at our best, however, when we team with our customers and suppliers to push the envelope and develop new comprehensive solutions together.
Who We Are
The white character in the green globe symbolizes our name, and also a person with their hands outstretched, offering help. It captures both who we are and what we do.
We are a team of 100+ professionals spread across 17 locations in key manufacturing and R&D centers around the world. Our headquarters is in Singapore, but we are an international organization with employees from 9 different countries and speaking over 15 languages.
Ito was founded in Japan in 1946 and maintains a strong core of dedication, responsibility, and attention to detail that stems from this Japanese heritage. Approximately 25% of our employees are Japanese, with the remaining 75% largely spread across Asia. Our CEO, Peter Opdahl, is a US national with an MBA from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management and four years of education in Japan at the high school, university, and graduate school levels. Our core is Japanese, but with an international mindset, and we always try to take the best of every culture and incorporate that into who we are.
We focus on technology. As a unique hybrid organization of sales, service, and engineering professionals, we believe that we cannot sell unless we first gain the trust of our customers. Trust comes from being financially sound, keeping our professional and ethical commitments, and providing our customers with the best technical service and support they could ever expect. We can only do this by being experts in the products and technologies that we sell, so we educate, train, and provide other necessary support to our people to make this possible. We now have over 50 degreed engineers on staff in Ito Group and only expect that number to increase as we move forward.
We believe that operational efficiency is the key to business success. Our belief — in fact our Mission Statement — is that if we can increase the efficiency of our customers’ operations, they will make more money and will in turn do more business with us. To do this, we need to work hard at understanding how technology is used in the real world of the factory floor. This is why we spend so much time in factories, and it is why we hire engineers and local staff; If we cannot understand our customer’s manufacturing problems the same way that they do, we cannot help them with a complete solution.
We do not do everything. Our overall focus is on technologies and products where we can provide outstanding support and a high level of technical sophistication. Our customers expect this, our suppliers expect this, and we expect this of ourselves. We do carry a range of products, but they are all linked together into product sets that compliment and reinforce each other. This allows us to provide individual products as well as total solutions to our customers. Ultimately, if you need a standard product straight from the catalog, we can provide it. We are at our best, however, when we team with our customers and suppliers to push the envelope and develop new comprehensive solutions together.
Who We Are
The white character in the green globe symbolizes our name, and also a person with their hands outstretched, offering help. It captures both who we are and what we do.
We are a team of 100+ professionals spread across 17 locations in key manufacturing and R&D centers around the world. Our headquarters is in Singapore, but we are an international organization with employees from 9 different countries and speaking over 15 languages.
Ito was founded in Japan in 1946 and maintains a strong core of dedication, responsibility, and attention to detail that stems from this Japanese heritage. Approximately 25% of our employees are Japanese, with the remaining 75% largely spread across Asia. Our CEO, Peter Opdahl, is a US national with an MBA from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management and four years of education in Japan at the high school, university, and graduate school levels. Our core is Japanese, but with an international mindset, and we always try to take the best of every culture and incorporate that into who we are.
We focus on technology. As a unique hybrid organization of sales, service, and engineering professionals, we believe that we cannot sell unless we first gain the trust of our customers. Trust comes from being financially sound, keeping our professional and ethical commitments, and providing our customers with the best technical service and support they could ever expect. We can only do this by being experts in the products and technologies that we sell, so we educate, train, and provide other necessary support to our people to make this possible. We now have over 50 degreed engineers on staff in Ito Group and only expect that number to increase as we move forward.
We believe that operational efficiency is the key to business success. Our belief — in fact our Mission Statement — is that if we can increase the efficiency of our customers’ operations, they will make more money and will in turn do more business with us. To do this, we need to work hard at understanding how technology is used in the real world of the factory floor. This is why we spend so much time in factories, and it is why we hire engineers and local staff; If we cannot understand our customer’s manufacturing problems the same way that they do, we cannot help them with a complete solution.
We do not do everything. Our overall focus is on technologies and products where we can provide outstanding support and a high level of technical sophistication. Our customers expect this, our suppliers expect this, and we expect this of ourselves. We do carry a range of products, but they are all linked together into product sets that compliment and reinforce each other. This allows us to provide individual products as well as total solutions to our customers. Ultimately, if you need a standard product straight from the catalog, we can provide it. We are at our best, however, when we team with our customers and suppliers to push the envelope and develop new comprehensive solutions together.
Our Story
Ito Group was started in 1946 with the founding of the Ito Chemical Works Company. We started out as a manufacturer, have created, sold, and merged with manufacturers as we matured, and have never lost that spark to build the next great thing.
1946
October
Established Ito Chemical Works
1975
October
Spun off the sales department handling
products from Screen Printing Systems, Inc.of
the United States as Reinke International Corporation
1987
July
Increased the capital stock to 22,000,000 yen
1994
January
Established Ito America Corporation in
the United States, President: Peter Opdahl
2006
May
Established Ito Precision Technologies Limited
in Bangkok, Thailand
2007
April
Peter Opdahl took office as the president
2008
October
Established Ito Precision Technologies Private
Limited in Chennai, India
2012
July
Established Ito Viet Nam Company Limited
in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
2014
July
Established Ito Group Holdings Pte. Ltd.
in Singapore
1948
July
Incorporated under the name Ito Yakuhin K.K,
President: Kikuo Ito
1982
October
Hiroyasu Ito becomes President
1991
March
Merged Ito Yakuhin KK with Reinke
International Corporation to form
Ito Corporation, President: Hiroyasu Ito
1998
July
Increased the capital stock to 50,000,000 yen
2006
October
Established Ito Corporation (Cyprus) Limited
2007
December
Establised Ito Technology and iToucan
Technology Services in Shenzhen, China
2011
September
Established Ito Corporation (Cyprus) Limited
Office in Munich, Germany
2014
May
Established Ito Corporation Taiwan Branch in
Taipei, Taiwan
| 1946 October | Established Ito Chemical Works |
| 1948 July | Incorporated under the name Ito Yakuhin K.K, President: Kikuo Ito |
| 1975 October | Spun off the sales department handling products from Screen Printing Systems, Inc. of the United States as Reinke International Corporation |
| 1982 October | Hiroyasu Ito becomes President |
| 1987 July | Increased the capital stock to 22,000,000 yen |
| 1991 March | Merged Ito Yakuhin KK with Reinke International Corporation to form Ito Corporation, President: Hiroyasu Ito |
| 1994 January | Established Ito America Corporation in the United States, President: Peter Opdahl |
| 1998 July | Increased the capital stock to 50,000,000 yen |
| 2006 May | Established Ito Precision Technologies Limited in Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2006 October | Established Ito Corporation (Cyprus) Limited |
| 2007 April | Peter Opdahl took office as the president |
| 2007 December | Establised Ito Technology and iToucan Technology Services in Shenzhen, China |
| 2008 October | Established Ito Precision Technologies Private Limited in Chennai, India |
| 2011 September | Established Ito Corporation (Cyprus) Limited Office in Munich, Germany |
| 2012 July | Established Ito Viet Nam Company Limited in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam |
| 2014 May | Established Ito Corporation Taiwan Branch in Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2014 July | Established Ito Group Holdings Pte. Ltd. in Singapore |
