On February 13th, a professional motorcycle racer, Mr. Iwasaki’s new team, “Ogura Clutch with Power Builder” had a press conference in Kiryu and made an announcement about the new team’s organization and that it will participate in 2016 All Japan Road Race Championship J-GP2 class.
　Ogura is making racing clutches for motorcycles and is supporting Mr.Iwasaki as the primary sponsor.
　Ogura is excited to participate in Japan’s most reputable motorcycle road race.
　Ogura is to use its expertise developed from having been in car racing business over the years, to advance its motorcycle racing clutch design and visibility in the market.

Ogura exhibited at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 held at Makuhari Messe on January 15th (Fri)~17th (Sun). 
　Ogura showcased many racing clutches it has developed–among them, clutch for new Roadster.
　Ogura also exhibited a new clutch for motorcycle, named Slipper Clutch―technologies Ogura had developed for racing clutches for 4 wheel vehicles are now being applied to 2 wheel motorcycle.
　Kawasaki motorcycle, ZX6R equipped with Slipper Clutch and Inter Proto Series vehicle, named Kuruma equipped with racing clutch attracted interest of many attendees.
　A talk show was also held at Ogura booth―among the guests, Inter Proto Series producer, Mr. Sekiya and two racing drivers, Mr. Nakayama and Mr. Hirakawa. When Mr. Iwasaki from All Japan Road Race Championship took the stage, the conversation on race clutches on motorcycle excited the packed audience.
　Video images from TRD Rally Challenge were shown at the talk show–Ogura sponsored team has participated since 2014 and finished the 3rd last year, and it promoted Ogura’s active involvement in motor sports.

Ogura exhibited at International Robot Exhibition (IREX) 2015 for the first time on December 2nd (Wed)~5th (Sat) at Tokyo Big Sight. Ogura showcased its various clutches and brakes, and particularly, spring actuated brake line-up and the demonstration machine for newly developed grip sensor attracted interests of the attendees.
　Ogura also exchanged information with many people in robot industry, which was stimulating and worthwhile.
　The exhibition was a great success.

An Awards ceremony was held on October 26th, 2015 for the companies in the city of Isesaki that contributed to the growth of local economy. Ogura Clutch was recognized again this year thanks to recommendations from its suppliers.
　With the ongoing quest for superior quality, global competitiveness and customer satisfaction, Ogura Clutch continues to contribute to the growth of the industries in the city of Isesaki.

　Ogura exhibited at the 19th Mechanical Element Engineering Exhibition at Tokyo Big Site (June 24th ~ 26th) . Under this year’s theme, “Connecting the world with Motion Control”, Ogura showcased its various products, such as industrial clutches and brakes and their demonstration machines.
　These demo machines and various “cut samples” attracted attention of the attendees and were good tools to explain their usefulness.
　It was a successful show; thank you.

The Japan Machine Accessory Association (JMAA) held the 60th anniversary ceremony at Hotel New Otani on May 27th. President of Ogura Clutch, Mr. Ogura who is its longtime board member accepted an official letter of appreciation from the director for Ogura’s contributions to the development of association for over 50 years.
　JMAA conducts surveys on production and distribution, conducts research on technologies and safety issues, and facilitates standardization of equipment used in industrial machinery such as metalworking machines, non-metalworking machines, and so on, so that the machine tool industry in Japan may be further developed, while contributing to the growth of the economy and the national standard of living.

　Due to opening of a new plant in China (Changxing County) and resulting evaluation of plant’s operation, Ogura’s subsidiary in Wuxi City relocated to a new location.

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The exhibition was held on March 12th~14th at Pazhou Complex of Chinese Import and Export Commodities Fair. Ogura has exhibited at this show since the 7th.
　Ogura exhibited automotive air conditioning clutches, lawn mower clutches,industrial clutches, micro-clutches, roots blowers, racing clutches,aviation precision parts, elevator brakes and so on. Ogura booth also had company introduction video, illustrations of various products (particularly coils for differential, which was introduced for the first time at the show) on rotating panels. Ogura promoted itself to the attendees that it is a comprehensive clutch brake manufacturer.

On February 19th at Tokyo Dome Hotel, 2015 Sanden Global Create Future event was held,and Ogura received the Supplier of the Year. Among 1,600 Sanden suppliers,this award was given to the supplier that globally contributed to success of Sanden in terms of QCD. Ogura’s “short term & midterm cost improvement”,VA/VE proposal toward target cost”, “start-up of new coil-less clutch with plastic pulley” were highly praised by Sanden.

　Keidanren believes that corporations bear responsibilities to be useful entities in the society by adding values through fair competitions and that they must contribute to the economic development by such means as creating jobs. This means corporations must carry out their social responsibilities with the highest sense of ethics toward creation of connected society,respect the human rights whether here in Japan or overseas, abide by the related laws and regulations and international rules and the idea behind them.
　Ogura engages in business activities according to this principle.