Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd.

Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and sells needle roller bearings, linear motion rolling guides, precision positioning tables, and machine components under the IKO brand. Its products include radial and compound needle roller bearings, thrust bearings, cam followers, roller followers, crossed roller bearings, and spherical plain bearings for automobiles, motorcycles, printing machines, industrial robots, and construction machinery. The company also offers linear motion rolling guides, linear motion parts, and precision positioning tables for semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturing equipment. Formerly known as Daiichi-Kogyo Co., Ltd., it changed its name to Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd. in 1963, was incorporated in 1950, and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.