CKD Corporation develops, manufactures, sells, and exports automation machinery and components in Japan and Internationally. The company offers components products, such as electric actuators, direct drive actuators, pneumatic cylinders, hand and chucks, assistive devices, software, directional control valves, refining and pressure adjusting components, speed and control valves check valves, auxiliary components, gas generators, fluid control components, sensors, controllers, vacuum system components, and mechanical indexer, as well as components for chemical liquids, high vacuum and special gas, and controllers for primary industries and irrigation. It also provides automatic machinery, including solder paste inspection machine, transparent object inspection device, and lithium-ion battery winding machine. The company was formerly known as Chukyo Electric Co., Ltd. and changed its name to CKD Corporation in July 1979. CKD Corporation was incorporated in 1943 and is headquartered in Komaki, Japan.