Our company was founded in 1924, the year following the Great Kanto Earthquake, when founder Zenkichi Niwa established “Maruzen Shoten.”
For a century since, we have advanced as a specialized manufacturer of fastening products, beginning with safety pins.
Starting with a small staff and manual production, the company swiftly embraced automation and rationalization under the leadership of the second-generation president, Isamu Niwa.
Driven by the aspiration to “create the world's highest quality safety pins,” we have relentlessly pursued quality through domestic manufacturing.
Today, the times continue to change dramatically.
We embrace this change without fear, returning to the essence of the word “fastening” – the idea of connecting people to people, and things to things –
and continue developing products that create new value.
One hundred years since our founding.
Building upon the traditions and technologies we have cultivated over the years, we will take on new challenges for the next century.
With reliable quality from domestic Japanese manufacturing and flexible thinking that responds to the needs of the times,
we aim to become a manufacturing company trusted by customers worldwide.
President Akihito Niwa