What is KoCoLab?
From now. From here.
KoCoLab
KoCoLab (KOBELCO Co-creation Laboratory) is a place where KOBELCO's core technologies and customers' businesses inspire each other.
It is a place to discover more precise needs and co-create more valuable seeds. The concept is "Face to Face." By sharing time, space, and purpose while actually seeing inside our research facilities, instead of just a display of technology, you are bound to feel the stirrings of new ideas being created. Let's create a new development that is going to start from now, together from here.
Floor Guide
Ice-Breaking Zone
KOBELCO's products are closer than you think. Focusing on this fact-- that "Actually, that's KOBELCO."-- this zone introduces our CSR activities and contents related to our awards.
History Zone
KOBELCO has continually opened the doors to new eras through its diversified businesses. This zone introduces our history of innovation in various fields going back through more than 100 years.
KOBELCO Introduction Zone
We introduce KOBELCO's products and initiatives that contribute to society in response to social needs (Carbon Neutrality, Digital Transformation) and applications (Mobility, Energy & Infrastructure, Life).
Core Technology Zone
KOBELCO is proud of its 21 core technologies that underpin its three main fields of materials, machinery, and power supply. Here, you can see our advanced manufacturing capabilities, backed up by prototype experiments, and the passion behind them.
Co-creation Zone
This is a place to start co-creation, by allowing us to share your issues.
We will create cool ideas from here through hot discussions.
We will create cool ideas from here through hot discussions.
Discussion Zone
This is a personal area for deeper discussions to build ideas into a business. It is a bright, open space outfitted with accessories such as wall surfaces that are white boards for writing.
Flow of Co-creation
- *KoCoLab is not open to individuals, as it is a facility for business co-creation.
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Inquiry/application to a KOBELCO Group employee
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Notification of date and time for visit
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Visit
Access
- By Train
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From Sannomiya, board the city subway (Seishin・Yamate Line) and get off at Seishin-Chuo Station.
- About 10 minutes by bus (take routes 12, 23, or 24 and get off at Koaike Kouen)
- About 5 minutes by taxi (Tell the driver to go to Kobe Steel's (Kobe Seiko) Research Laboratory.)
- By Car
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- From Sannomiya : Drive via the Sanroku Bypass for about 40 minutes.
- From Akashi : Drive via the Daini Shinmei Tamatsu Interchange for about 30 minutes.