– To provide safe beverages and further accelerate global environmental protection –
KOTO, Japan, October 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — OMRON Corporation (hereafter “OMRON”) having its headquarters in Kyotoand Kirin Brewery Company, Limited (hereafter “Kirin Brewery”), a Tokyo-based group company of Kirin Holdings Company, Limited (hereafter “Kirin”), also based in the Japanese capital, announced this October 18th that they have signed a share purchase agreement regarding OMRON’s investment in Kirin Techno-System Company, Limited (hereafter “KTS”) located in Kawasakito deliver safe drinks. OMRON’s shareholding will be 60% and Kirin Brewery’s will be 40%.
OMRON logo: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/img/202210208491-O2-IKwuMyAb
Kirin’s logo: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/img/202210208491-O1-8LEM0Ruz
As consumer interest in the safety of food and beverages has increased recently, there is a growing need for advanced quality control and quality inspection to ensure the safety of such products at the point of manufacture. On the other hand, as the labor shortage in the manufacturing industry accelerates, automating manual processes has become a management issue. In addition, reducing waste due to quality defects is also crucial from a global environmental protection perspective to reduce plastic consumption. In addition to further improving productivity, which has been an issue for some time, there is an urgent need to achieve higher inspection accuracy, automation and reduction of defective products, both to ensure the safety of food and beverages and to protect the global environment through reduction the use of plastics and energy consumption in production.
With OMRON’s entry into the investment in KTS, the two companies will jointly develop “Manufacturing DX (Digital Transformation)” solutions using inspection data and contribute to the development of the food and beverage industry. Both companies will jointly develop new…
