Pacific Industrial will build a new plant on the site of its Kita-Ogaki factory in Kanzaki area of Gifu Prefecture to make valves for electric vehicles, with about 14,900 square metres of floor space and operations planned from March 2025.

Seiko NSK plans to invest 30 billion yen over five years to increase production of bearings for electric vehicles, including at its Ishibe Plant in Konan City, Shiga Prefecture. The plan was reported on 29 December 2022.

Toshiba Materials announced a new facility for silicon nitride balls on its Yokohama headquarters site, budgeted at over 5 billion yen (about US$38 million), raising capacity 50% versus fiscal 2021. Production is expected to start in November 2023.

Toyota Industries is expanding capacity for car air-conditioning electric compressors, including roughly doubling its Higashiura plant in Aichi with a new processing line starting October 2022. The company targets a global production system of 10 million units.

NHK Spring is building a new motor core production building at its Atsugi plant in Kanagawa, investing about ¥5 billion. Capacity at the plant will roughly triple after the building opens, with construction starting November 2022 and completion in October 2023.

Trelleborg Industrial Solutions plans to begin producing thermoplastic elastomer vehicle bellows in Odawara, southwest of Tokyo, in Q1 2022. Part of a group investment of just under SEK 300 million across several countries.

Hydraulic component maker Takako will move its headquarters to Kizugawa, Kyoto, with a new office and factory due for completion in January 2021. The new plant will mass-produce solenoid valves for automotive use; the investment is undisclosed.

OMRON Automotive Electronics became part of the Nidec group under the new name Nidec Mobility, to work with Nidec's automotive motor unit on modules and systems. The change was reported on 12 November 2019.