1997 Japanese Die & Mold Sales,& Manpower Statistics

Number of Employees	Number of Factories	% of Total factories	Million yen	% of Total sales
less than 3	--	--	--	--
4-9	9,516	79.5%	428,559	23.4%
10-19	1,299	10.9%	297,831	16.3%
20-19	596	5.0%	258,019	14.1%
30-49	253	2.1%	185,347	10.1%
50-99	213	1.8%	283,174	15.5%
100-199	71	0.6%	202,181	11.1%
200-299	11	0.1%	69,631	3.8%
more than 300	6	-%	104,075	5.7%
TOTAL	11,965	100.0%	1,828,817	100.0%

Annual Sales for Japanese Die & Mold Shops

Year	Growth Rate	Million Yen
1973	27.8%	245,290
1974	12.6%	276,163
1975	-1.5%	272,056
1976	20.1%	326,760
1977	24.4%	406,423
1978	21.2%	492,419
1979	15.1%	566,554
1980	19.0%	674,110
1981	16.6%	785,924
1982	10.1%	865,121
1983	17.1%	1,012,718
1984	10.7%	1,121,367
1985	21.4%	1,361,310
1986	-4.2%	1,304,201
1987	-4.8%	1,241,744
1988	10.8%	1,376,448
1989	11.3%	1,531,580
1990	17.4%	1,798,507
1991	8.8%	1,957,542
1992	-11.6%	1,729,943
1993	-10.8%	1,542,599
1994	-9.7%	1,393,012
1995	16.7%	1,517,884
1996	10.8%	1,682,028
1997	8.7%	1,828,817

Number of Die-making & Mold-making Factories in Japan

Year	Number of Factories	Million Yen
1974	6,243	51,743
1975	7,144	54,693
1976	7,409	54,096
1977	7,684	56,821
1978	8,709	63,763
1979	8,977	67,897
1980	9,231	69,072
1981	9,934	76,539
1982	9,874	80,589
1983	11,494	90,571
1984	11,181	93,891
1985	11,923	103,195
1986	12,200	106,881
1987	11,656	103,144
1988	12,885	106,488
1989	12,148	106,146
1990	13,115	115,412
1991	12,814	112,415
1992	12,254	114,383
1993	12,912	112,233
1994	8,158	92,687
1995	12,455	105,906
1996	12,038	108,485
1997	11,965	108,876

1997 Production Sales for Companies by Districts in Japan(Million yen)

Mold type District	Press Die	Forging Die	Casting mold Die casting mold	Plastic mold	Rubber mold Glass mold	Others	Total
Aichi	118,107	8,537	23,570	102,497	8,137	28,765	289,613
Osaka	51,934	7,861	11,794	73,299	7,818	26,665	179,371
Kanagawa	63,135	1,130	9,865	40,754	5,745	12,907	133,536
Shizuoka	54,175	1,895	8,174	48,265	2,436	8,252	123,197
Saitama	28,946	2,525	13,953	54,151	4,715	16,639	120,929
Tokyo	25,010	606	4,898	47,592	9,765	13,438	101,309
Gunma	66,727	248	3,186	17,937		8,458	96,556
Gifu	26,557	1,829	7,367	34,425	2,448	7,408	80,034
Nagano	22,572	230	3,802	29,172	1,663	7,159	64,598
Toyama	10,332	953	3,303	38,254		4,353	57,195

Annual Sales by Mold typeiMillion yenj

Year Mold type	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
Press dies	687,066 35.1%	606,656 34.5%	522,853 34.1%	456,847 32.8%	499,091 33.0%	568,052 34.5%	630,853 34.4%
Forging dies	36,468 1.8%	33,903 1.9%,	32,182 2.1%	33,382	37,849 2.5%	38,728 2.4%	43,144 2.3%
Casting molds Die casting molds	136,952 7.0%	125,719 7.2%	109,526 7.1%	97,862 7.0%	99,276 6.6%	103,542 6.3%	122,621 6.7%
Plastic molds	751,170 38.4%	687,804 39.1%	593,790 38.7%	547,837 39.3%	584,556 38.7%	629,632 38.3%	698,124 38.1%
Rubber molds Glass molds	85,525 4.4%	76,148 4.3%	67,087 4.4%	55,742 4.0%	63,489 4.2%	61,361 3.7%	63,657 3.5%
Others	259,387 13.3%	228,642 13.0%	208,219 13.6%	201,342 14.5%	227,090 15.0%	242,991 14.8%	275,542 15.0%
TOTAL	1,956,568	1,758,872	1,533,657	1,393,012	1,511,351	1,644,306	1,833,941

Export & Import of Die & mold(thousand Yen)

Year	Export	Import
1979	21,597,680	2,277,720
1980	23,569,390	2,498,381
1981	44,575,709	2,524,501
1982	56,718,385	4,108,264
1983	64,549,257	3,961,035
1984	72,083,872	3,882,117
1985	97,822,077	4,750,636
1986	109,795,364	5,049,394
1987	112,629,587	6,838,394
1988	139,124,689	9,125,699
1989	165,205,037	13,234,053
1990	156,232,607	17,771,139
1991	214,067,436	21,842,581
1992	215,976,242	19,360,353
1993	214,603,791	13,871,664
1994	240,796,226	14,524,872
1995	258,687,112	18,445,293
1996	283,922,852	25,868,993
1997	351,762,355	36,819,283
1998	297,978,484	44,828,439