[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” tag=”h1″ size=”sz-l”][vc_single_image image=”9566″][vc_column_text]When Chun Ha, the managing director of Yamato Scale UK, appeared on our zoom call, the screen was immediately filled by one of those rare entities: a business leader with optimism. Not only that, as our discussion continued it became clear he had a vision and carefully crafted strategy that would help him achieve his ambitions for the UK arm of the company.<\/p>\n
Mr Ha\u2019s enthusiasm for the business that he joined in 2015<\/a>, moving swiftly up the ranks to the UK top job, was contagious. Here was a man you could believe in. His knowledge of Yamato\u2019s history, as the company celebrates its centenary year<\/a>, had the kind of depth you\u2019d imagine from someone who had lived and breathed every step along the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prior to his promotion to UK managing director he served as general manager for global sales and more recently as executive officer and deputy executive general manager of Yamato\u2019s automatic weighing division.<\/p>\n Yamato Scale was founded in 1920 by the Japanese industrialist Seibei Kawanishi, who had already established the Kawanishi Machine Works, Nippon Keori Co and Sanyo Electric Railway Co.<\/p>\n Mr Ha said: \u201cIn the decades that followed, we became known for making heavy-duty weighing technology across many industries including steel, automobile, and highway construction.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Ha takes particular inspiration from the 1970s when Yamato Scale focused its efforts on serving the food processing industry.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cThis was the first time that a company making industrial-scale weighing machinery had transferred such specialist and highly technical skills into the development of automatic weighing machines for the food manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have built on this ever since, to the extent that our automatic weighing division is now the most important part of our business. The fact that we have made the development of increasingly accurate weighing technology the core of our business, is what makes us stand out from our competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Ha says that the development of Yamato\u2019s multi-head scales was revolutionary to the food processing sector, where supermarkets were demanding increased speed and productivity without compromising on accuracy. Indeed, Yamato\u2019s determination to invest in R&D and to continually improve its weighing technology in line with uncompromising customer demand helped the company go from strength to strength, with offices opening all over the world including in Europe, India, Thailand, China and America as well as the UK.<\/p>\n Mr Ha explains that another point of difference is Yamato\u2019s focus on helping its customers<\/a> ensure accuracy and compliance to rigorous industry standards across the entirety of their food processing lines.<\/p>\n He is referring to Yamato\u2019s industry leading product inspection equipment.<\/p>\n Mr Ha said: \u201cOur product inspection machines are some of the most advanced in the industry<\/a>. This is vitally important for ensuring product safety, avoiding downtime and wastage, and reducing manufacturing costs.\u201d<\/p>\n