Established in 1968, KATAOKA has developed, manufactured, and sold highly specialized manufacturing equipment for a range of business sectors, centered around our laser technology. As a "people and environmentally friendly" company, KATAOKA has also developed, produced, and marketed environmentally safe products such as high-efficiency, low-energy LD excitation based laser processing systems, rechargeable battery inspection equipment which achieves considerable savings in electricity through regenerative power which reuses electrical discharge energy, and touch panel manufacturing equipment created using the dry method in place of the previously used wet processing.