Argosy Japan Aerospace Materials established in Nagoya, Japan

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Argosy Japan Aerospace Materials Co. Ltd. (Argosy Japan) was officially established this summer in Nagoya, Japan, with two key business leaders, Akihiro “Hiro” Oda, general manager, and Osamu Kobayashi, crash test barrier sales manager.

According to Paul Marks, chairman, of parent company Argosy International Inc. (New York, N.Y., U.S.), “the establishment of Argosy Japan will allow us to stock crash test barriers, composites and composites process materials as well as invoice in local currency, greatly expanding market opportunities as well as providing convenience for our Japanese customers.”

Vinnie Favia, global CFO of Argosy, emphasizes Nagoya as a well-suited location for the company “due to its industrial focus on aerospace and automotive and the support received by the Nagoya, Aichi local prefectures, the Greater Nagoya Initiative Center and the Japanese External Trade Organization.”

Argosy Japan’s scope will be the sale of aluminum and aramid cores, crash test barriers, composites and composite process materials for aerospace, automotive, transportation and other lightweighting applications. Oda will focus on the composite materials market in aerospace, transportation and other lightweighting opportunities and Kobayashi will be dedicated to the crash test barrier market in Japan.

Argosy International, founded in 1988, is a supplier of advanced composite materials and related supplies to the aerospace and composites industries globally. The company, with headquarters in New York and facilities located throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe, manufactures aluminum honeycomb products in a joint venture with Xian Aircraft Co. (Xi’An, China). Argosy has a partnership with ACC to manufacture aramid honeycomb core in China. Argosy distributes both aluminum and aramid honeycomb products to the global marketplace, provides honeycomb kits from its Huntsville, Ala., facility, blends — under license from Akzo Nobel N.V. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) — aerospace coatings and provides comprehensive logistics services worldwide. Argosy is also Aerovac’s (Schaumburg, Ill., U.S.) exclusive aerospace distributor in APAC for composite process materials.