Nabtesco's Precision Equipment business has been providing precision reduction gears based on advanced technologies offering compact-size, lightweight, high positioning accuracy, highly rigid and highly efficient features, as well as rapid prototyping machines (stereo lithography) and other equipment and systems focusing on next generation technologies.

For precision reduction gears at the core of the Precision Equipment business, applications are extending to industrial robots, machine tools, and semiconductor manufacturing. Now Nabtesco has just initiated new projects. At the same time, for existing products, Nabtesco has started the development of a new series of products to offer increased accuracy and rigidity, thereby further enhancing competitiveness. In particular, for application to the joints of industrial robots, Nabtesco’s precision equipment has been highly rated in the world market and it maintains a dominant share of approximately 60%.

In the business of rapid prototyping systems (stereo lithography), Nabtesco has established an industry-leading development capability and a wide variety of service-providing systems. In fact, Nabtesco has been encouraging various industries, including manufacturers of automobiles, electromechanical systems manufacturing, digital home electronic appliances and precision equipment to utilize this rapid prototyping technology, thereby aiming for positive market development. Nabtesco is also making an aggressive effort to develop new businesses and new products such as vacuum actuators for the transferring and position alignment of wafers or LCD glass substrates, thermal management products based on proprietary heat transfer technology, and digital logging systems used widely in call centers in order to meet the needs of users around the world, while Nabtesco's precision equipment continues to support cutting-edge industries.