BASE TIMES kawaguchi

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Packaging

2025.03.21

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In preparation for the air shipment on March 22, we are carefully and securely packaging the works to ensure they don't get damaged. There were many challenges along the way, including simulations using models, creating lists, and negotiating wi...

Packaging

2025.03.21
news

BASE TIMES Kawaguchi About

BASE TIMES kawaguchi is a collaborative project between designers and five metalworking companies from Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, an area renowned for developing its traditional casting industry since the 17th century. Initiated as an "Open Factory" event in 2018, the project evolved into creative collaborations, showcasing numerous compelling works at local art galleries. Through these efforts, we've shared the appeal of craftsmanship and technical expertise with children, students, and designers. Our key strength lies in merging the distinct technologies of each participating company to create highly sophisticated, premium-quality products.

BTK's production examples shaping the future.

New forms of expression emerge precisely because factories collaborate. Here we introduce various projects we've completed with designers, showcasing BTK’s technical skills and dedication...

Chi-ba-kun and
Friends Puzzle (Blue)

Porta del future
Door to the Future

Metal Camper
Cooler 18L

Transfer eyes/
M-２・M３

Side by Side

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Technological Collaboration

BTK provides comprehensive metal processing from design to construction, emphasizing precision and beauty. Employing diverse techniques such as high-precision cutting, welding, smooth R-bending, decorative finishing, and painting, we shape customer ideas into reality. Our team comprises skilled craftsmen and engineers, each with specialized expertise, passionately engaged in manufacturing. Beyond technical skills, we value a spirit of challenge and continually pursue new possibilities.

Design capabilities that transform ideas into reality, utilizing 3D CAD to achieve complex shapes and high-precision processing.

Cutting

High-quality finishes through precise cutting. We employ optimal cutting techniques tailored to materials and usage to produce high-precision parts.

Bending

Advanced bending techniques with attention to detail, capable of straight bends as well as complex shapes and precise angle adjustments.

Machining

High-quality finishes achieved through precision machining. Utilizing lathe and milling techniques to achieve micron-level accuracy.

Polishing

Finishing techniques enhancing both beauty and functionality. Polishing contributes not only to visual appeal but also to improved durability and functionality.

Painting

Providing coating technologies such as powder coating and baking finish tailored to various applications, enhancing durability, corrosion resistance, and aesthetics.

Decorative Finishing

Providing surface treatments such as laser engraving, etching, and hairline finishing that highlight the metallic texture.

Construction

Reliable assembly techniques ensuring completion through to the final stages. We provide integrated support from processing to installation, even for large-scale structures.

Art fes

Kawaguchi Machikouba Art Festival is an event showcasing new creations and products made through collaborations between local factories and designers. It attracts local manufacturers, as well as children, students, and designers from across Japan, providing opportunities to see, touch, and listen to craftsmen explain their works...

This lighting fixture beautifully creates a moiré pattern by crossing metal mesh, offering enjoyable moiré motion.

MESH BOX STOOL

A convenient box stool with a mesh lid that allows visibility of contents and can also be used as seating.

Mesh Bag

A bag crafted from metal mesh that maintains its shape, with a design conveying warmth despite its metal nature.

Gerbera

The flower meaning of the red gerbera symbolizes limitless challenges. This object was designed with the concept of a 2.5-dimensional sculpture.

Chi-ba-kun and Friends Puzzle (Red)

We added eyes and noses to all prefectures, turning them into characters and creating a puzzle of Japan's map.

UneUne Bench

A bench that leverages the flexible and gently undulating properties of metal mesh.

Side by Side

A flower vase formed by integrating various processing techniques into a single metal plate, allowing multiple flower arrangements depending on its orientation.

wrap to rod

"wrap to rod" is a joint part that can be attached to wooden rods.

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