株式会社アーテック

What 株式会社アーテック does

株式会社アーテック (Artec Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese 'kitchen concierge' service provider founded in 1998 and operating as a subsidiary of the Hattori Group (服部グループ). Headquartered in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, the company delivers a bundled portfolio of commercial-kitchen services to restaurants, hotels, hospitals, elderly-care facilities, schools, kindergartens, and corporate cafeterias. Core service lines include kitchen equipment sales and maintenance, grease-trap and duct cleaning, floor/drainage repair, pest control, mold removal, HACCP implementation support, and cook-chill system consulting. The company also operates the Okazaki Cook-Chill Center, producing approximately 2,500 meals per day (as of April 2026) for delivery to nearby healthcare, education, and elderly-care customers under brands including Kurumi Kyushoku, Kurumi bento, and Deli. Kurumi frozen side dishes.

The company operates a hybrid services-plus-products business model. Recurring-revenue products include the Ondozzi cloud temperature monitoring subscription (¥350/unit/month, hosted on AWS), the Omakase Prime kitchen equipment maintenance subscription (¥2,980/month), and an annual porcelain tableware rental for elderly-care facilities. Discrete products include the Dtorex medical-grade chemical-free cleaning agent, the RKZ-40Ⅱ multi-product retort sterilizer, and the Lumiere LED UV insect trap. Distribution combines direct field sales through kitchen consultants, inbound inquiry handling (free dial 0120-842-581), a dedicated kitchen EC site (artec842581.com), and a partnership with group company Hattori Industry for equipment manufacturing. A newer initiative, the Alibaba Omakase Pack, supports overseas B2B expansion across approximately 190 countries. The company publishes the Artec Club News (430+ issues since 1998) and operates a joint YouTube channel 'お釜チャンネル' with Hattori Industry. No AI/ML capabilities are evidenced; the technology stack is IoT/cloud plus domain expertise in food safety. Representative Director is Hattori Toshio (服部俊男). The company is privately held with no disclosed funding, M&A, or external institutional investment.

Name

株式会社アーテック

Legal name

株式会社アーテック

Website

https://artec.ne.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

株式会社アーテック is a Japanese privately-held 'kitchen concierge' subsidiary of the Hattori Group, offering bundled commercial-kitchen services — equipment, cleaning, sanitation, HACCP consulting, cook-chill meal production (~2,500 meals/day), and recurring subscriptions — to restaurants, hospitals, schools, and elderly-care facilities across Aichi Prefecture.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Kitchen Management Services

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (72231)

SIC

Specialty Cleaning, Polishing And Sanitation Preparations (2842)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Services & Catering (On-site/Corporate Dining/Vending) (IMAIAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

HACCP/Preventive Controls (HARPC) Plan Development & Validation (AFALADAB), Kitchen & Countertop Cleaners & Degreasers (CRAJACAA), Corporate Catering & Refreshment Services (HSACADAD)

Keywords

• Commercial kitchen services
• Kitchen sanitation cleaning
• HACCP compliance consulting
• Cook-chill meal production
• Kitchen equipment maintenance

Headquarters

HQ city

Okazaki

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Kitchen Equipment Sales and Maintenance: Sales, maintenance, and repair of commercial kitchen equipment including rotating kettles, rice cookers, blast chillers, ventilation systems, and cooking appliances. Also includes consumables, parts, and accessories sold through their dedicated EC site.
2. Kitchen Cleaning and Sanitation Services: Comprehensive cleaning and sanitation services including grease trap cleaning, floor repair and drainage work, ventilation/duct/hood cleaning, air conditioner cleaning, pest control (cockroach/insect elimination), mold removal and anti-mold coating, and drainage equipment cleaning.
3. HACCP and Cook-Chill Advisory Services: HACCP implementation support, training workshops, cook-chill consulting, and central kitchen design advisory services. Includes their own Okazaki Cook-Chill Center operation.
4. Meal Delivery and Catering Services: Operation of the Okazaki Cook-Chill Center producing approximately 2,500 meals per day for hospitals, elderly facilities, kindergartens, schools, and businesses. Products include Kurumi Kyushoku (nursery school meals), Kurumi bento, and Deli.Kurumi frozen side dishes.
5. Temperature Monitoring Subscription (温度っち): Monthly subscription service for continuous temperature monitoring of refrigeration and freezer equipment. Priced at ¥350/month per unit with 24/7 monitoring, HACCP-compliant report generation, and cloud data storage.
6. Human Resources Staffing Services (おまかせパック): Introduction of foreign technical intern trainees, specified skilled workers, and dispatched foreign staff for kitchen operations. Also includes language training and self-training at their own meal center.
7. Omakase Prime Equipment Maintenance Subscription: Monthly subscription service for comprehensive kitchen equipment inspection including machines, air conditioners, grease traps, drainage, floors, ceilings, and pest inspection. Priced from ¥2,980/month (excluding tax).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Artec provides one-stop 'kitchen concierge' (厨房コンシェルジュ) services to commercial food service operators, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions in Japan. Core offerings include kitchen sanitation and maintenance (grease trap cleaning, duct cleaning, floor repair, pest control, mold prevention), HACCP/cook-chill consulting and training, and meal production through the Okazaki Cook-Chill Center serving approximately 2,500 meals daily. The company also sells proprietary products and subscriptions including the Ondozzi cloud temperature monitoring service, Dtorex chemical-free cleaning agent, and RKZ-40II retort sterilizer.

Product overview

株式会社アーテック is a 'kitchen concierge' service provider operating as part of the Hattori Group. The company offers a multi-layered portfolio of kitchen management services and related products. The service side includes core offerings such as comprehensive kitchen maintenance (grease trap cleaning, duct cleaning, floor repair, pest control, mold prevention, ventilation cleaning), HACCP/cook-chill consulting, and a meal delivery service for nursery schools featuring 'Kurumi Kyushoku' boxed lunches and 'Deli. Kurumi' frozen prepared foods from the Okazaki Cook-Chill Center. Supplementary modules include the 'Okamawari Pack' (おかけりパック) human resources staffing service for foreign kitchen workers, the 'Alibaba Okamawari Pack' for international market expansion, and 'Okamawari Prime' equipment maintenance subscription. On the product side, the company sells dedicated products including the cloud-based HACCP temperature monitoring subscription '温度っち' (350 yen/unit/month), the industrial cleaning agent 'Dtorex', the retort sterilizer 'RKZ-40Ⅱ', the porcelain tableware annual rental service 'テーブルコーデ', the LED UV insect trap 'Lumiere', and an online EC site for kitchen equipment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kitchen Concierge Services (厨房関連サービス) Comprehensive one-stop maintenance services for commercial kitchens, including grease trap cleaning, duct/hood/ventilation cleaning, floor and drainage repair work, pest control, mold prevention and virus removal, air conditioner cleaning, and kitchen equipment sales and maintenance, delivered by Artec's network of kitchen consultants to restaurants, hospitals, school cafeterias, and care facilities.
• HACCP / Cook-Chill Consulting and Training (HACCP/クックチル支援) HACCP implementation guidance compliant with the '7 principles 12 steps' framework, cook-chill consulting, central-kitchen optimization advisory, kitchen-improvement consultation, and HACCP training workshops delivered by experienced instructors to support first-time and ongoing facility compliance.
• Meal and Bento Delivery Service (給食・お弁当配送サービス) Daily meal production and delivery of approximately 2,500 meals/day from the Okazaki Cook-Chill Center to hospitals, elderly facilities, kindergartens, schools, and businesses, using cook-chill and cook-freeze methods; product lines include Kurumi Kyushoku (くるみ給食) nursery school meals, Kurumi Bento (くるみのお弁当), and Deli.Kurumi (Deli.くるみ) frozen prepared side dishes.
• Ondozzi (温度っち) Cloud Temperature Monitoring Subscription Subscription-based IoT temperature monitoring service for refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerated vehicles. Wireless battery-powered sensors (IP56 waterproof/dustproof, ±0.2°C accuracy, -40°C to 50°C range) record temperature every 30 minutes, alert on threshold breaches, and generate HACCP-compliant reports, with data stored on Amazon Web Services. Priced at ¥350/month per unit with a free trial available.
• Omakase Prime Equipment Maintenance Subscription (おまかせプライム) Monthly subscription covering scheduled inspection of kitchen equipment, air conditioners, grease traps, drainage, floors, ceilings, and pest inspection, priced from ¥2,980/month (tax excluded) with a free trial inspection offered before subscription commitment.
• Dtorex Chemical-Free Sterilizing Detergent (ディートレックス) Medical-grade industrial cleaning agent originally developed for cleaning dialysis tubes, providing strong degreasing, sterilization, and deodorizing without chemical detergents; used for dish soaking, rotating kettle and mixer cleaning, mold prevention, and virus removal across food-contact kitchen equipment.
• RKZ-40Ⅱ Multi-Product Retort Sterilizer Multi-product small-batch retort sterilizer (60-121°C high-pressure steam sterilization with pressurized cooling) for pouches, jelly packs, glass bottles, and cans; features a proprietary primary-heating process that suppresses F-value variation, F-value operation mode, soft pressurized cooling via spray nozzles to prevent film wrinkles and deformation, and all Food Sanitation Law-required features included as standard.
• Lumiere LED UV Fly Trap (ルミエール) Aesthetic-design LED ultraviolet insect trap utilizing 8.2W LED (approximately one-third the consumption of 27W chemical lamps), available in wall-mounted and desktop models with adhesive-sheet capture, ~2-year LED lifespan, and antibacterial coating on the power cord.
• Table Codec Porcelain Tableware Annual Rental (磁器食器年間レンタル) Annual porcelain tableware rental service for elderly and nursing care facilities—no annual fee or initial cost. Basic 4-item set (rice bowl plus main plate/bowl/square plate) with 20% spare units included, available from 10 sets, covering breakage and chip replacement.
• Kitchen Omakase Pack Human Resources Staffing (厨房おまかせパック) Staffing service that introduces foreign technical-intern trainees, specified skilled workers, and dispatched foreign staff to kitchen operations in Japan, with Japanese-language training and on-the-job training provided at Artec's own Okazaki Cook-Chill Center to address kitchen labor shortages.
• Alibaba Omakase Pack Global Marketplace Support (Alibabaおまかせパック) One-stop service that assists Japanese companies in listing products on the Alibaba B2B global marketplace, handling product page creation, translation, and business negotiation in more than 10 languages, supporting overseas market development across approximately 190 countries.

Quantifiable outcome

• Artec Club newsletter published since 1998, with over 430 issues (as of 2026)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• 服部工業株式会社coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCore group company partner and kitchen equipment manufacturer. Provides product training for Artec staff at their factory. Collaborates on kitchen equipment design and development through close coordination with the design department. Joint YouTube channel 'お釜チャンネル' produces cooking demonstration and equipment tutorial content. Also co-develops the Alibaba overseas sales initiative.
• 暮らしの学校minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOperates one-day cooking classes to help promote clients' businesses and build direct customer relationships. Their shop Miki sells nutritionist-approved bento and frozen side dishes produced at Artec's Okazaki Cook-Chill Center.
• EGAO / YAMASA言語文化研究所coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with Artec's Okazaki Cook-Chill Center on training and developing overseas human resources for kitchen work. Addresses kitchen labor shortage through international staffing solutions.
• エフ ПојединаAO (FM EGAO)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerLocal radio station broadcasting in Okazaki city and the 西三河 region, with nationwide reach via app. Also distributes video content on YouTube, helping to promote client businesses and Artec's own content.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ecolab Inc. Global leader in cleaning, sanitizing and food-safety solutions for foodservice operators — directly comparable to Artec's Dtorex cleaning agent, kitchen sanitation services and HACCP/Ondozzi monitoring offerings, but at vastly larger scale.
• Hoshizaki Corporation: Largest Japanese commercial kitchen equipment manufacturer (refrigeration, ice, dishwashers) — relevant incumbent given Artec's equipment sales/maintenance stream and its relationship with sister company Hattori Industry.
• Tanico Co., Ltd. Japanese commercial kitchen equipment maker (steam convection ovens, kettles, cooking lines) — directly overlaps Artec's equipment sales, maintenance and cook-chill system offerings.
• Maruzen Co., Ltd. Manufacturer of commercial cooking equipment for professional kitchens in Japan; comparable to Artec's equipment and cook-chill consulting business given similar customer base of restaurants, schools and hospitals.
• Fukushima Galilei Co., Ltd. Major Japanese manufacturer of commercial refrigeration, freezers and kitchen systems — incumbent in the same equipment categories Artec's group partner Hattori Industry competes in, with similar end-customers.

Direct peers

• Narikoma Holdings: Japan's largest contract food service company focused on hospitals, elderly care and welfare facilities — the closest direct competitor to Artec's Okazaki Cook-Chill Center meal-delivery model serving healthcare and aged-care customers.
• Mefos Co., Ltd. Contract food service operator providing meals to hospitals, schools and corporate cafeterias across Japan, directly comparable to Artec's institutional meal delivery business (Kurumi Kyushoku, Kurumi Bento, Deli.Kurumi).
• Fuji Sangyo Co., Ltd. Long-established contract food services company serving hospitals, welfare facilities and employee cafeterias — same institutional meal customer base as Artec with national distribution.
• Shidax Corporation: Contract food services plus group dining management, serving corporate cafeterias, hospitals and schools; comparable to Artec's institutional meal delivery and HACCP-driven compliance offering.
• LEOC Co., Ltd. Contract food service operator specializing in hospital, welfare and corporate dining — comparable target segments, comparable central-kitchen-and-delivery model to Artec.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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