About Us
MORITANI GmbH
MORITANI GmbH is a premier Japanese trading company specialized in reselling industrial machinery and related equipment. We have a long history with both our manufacturing partners and customers.
In the European region, we are proud to work together with manufacturers carrying sophisticated, advanced, and state-of-the-art products for the global market.
Due to our long and successful company history (founded 1901), we have a good relationship with many of Japan’s biggest and internationally renowned companies. This allows us to effectively promote products from European manufacturers to the Japanese market.
Our office is located in Raunheim near Frankfurt am Main, just 15 minutes west of Frankfurt International Airport. This allows us to reach most major European cities within 2 hours by plane.
About us
Company history
| 1901 | At the present Ginza, Tokyo, founder Gohei Moritani and his company starts business with the purpose of promoting selected, quality Japan-made machinery. |
| 1914 | As its first overseas operation, the Company inaugurates Taiwan Representative Office (now MORITANI Taiwan Co., Ltd.) with a view to expanding business overseas. |
| 1918 | Reorganizes itself as a joint-stock company, with Gohei Moritani as first president.Sets up U.S.A. Representative Office (now MORITANI America, Inc.) |
| 1928 | Relocates head office to its present address at Yaesu, Tokyo, with the relocation signaling a fully restructured sales operation and a renewed determination for a leap forward based on an entrepreneurial harbinger spirit. |
| 1974 | Shohei Moritani becomes the fourth president. |
| 1976 | Sets up West Germany Representative Office (now MORITANI GmbH) at Düsseldorf. |
| 1999 | Head Office certified to ISO 14001. |
| 2002 | Inaugurates MORITANI Shanghai Co., Ltd. |
| 2004 | Sets up Singapore Representative Office (now MORITANI Singapore Pte. Ltd.) |
| 2005 | MORITANI GmbH moves to Frankfurt am MainISO 14001 certification expanded to cover Osaka Branch. |
| 2006 | Sets up MORITANI Flowlab (a research lab) at Tsukuba, Ibaraki Pref. |
| 2007 | ISO 14001 certification expanded to cover Nagoya Branch.New entity, K.K. GM INVESTMENTS, inaugurated and started to now wholly own the Company. |
| 2011 | Hiroshi Kato was appointed as President of MORITANI & Co., Ltd. and Representative Director of K.K. GM INVESTMENTS. |
| 2023 | Hiroshi Kato was appointed as CEO of MORITANI & Co., Ltd. and CEO of K.K. GM INVESTMENTS.Mitsunori Akiyama was appointed as President & COO of MORITANI & Co., Ltd. |
| 2025 | MORITANI GmbH moves to Raunheim near Frankfurt am Main |
MORITANI GMBH
Our locations
TOKYO (JAPAN)
(HEADQUARTERS)
MORITANI & CO., LTD.
1-4-22 Yaesu, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
103-8680, JAPAN
CHICAGO (U.S.A.)
MORITANI AMERICA, INC.
300 Park Boulevard Suite 320 Itasca, Illinois 60143, U.S.A.
FRANKFURT (DEUTSCHLAND)
MORITANI GmbH
Am Prime-Parc 7, 65479 Raunheim, GERMANY
SINGAPORE
MORITANI SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
36 Robinson Road, #14-05 City House, SINGAPORE 068877
TAIPEI (TAIWAN)
MORITANI TAIWAN CO., LTD.
Golden Tower 11th Floor, No.88 Section 2, Chung Hsiao East Road, Taipei 10050, TAIWAN, R.O.C.
KAOHSIUNG (TAIWAN)
MORITANI TAIWAN CO., LTD.
Kaohsiung Branch
Room A1, 23rd Floor, No. 6, Siwei 3rd Road, Lingya District, Kaohsiung City 80250 TAIWAN, R.O.C.
SHANGHAI (CHINA)
MORITANI SHANGHAI CO., LTD.
Room 02, 40F, 299 Tongren Road, Jingan District, Shanghai 200040, P.R. CHINA