My hobby

One of the hobbies I enjoy is building plastic models. I started building models when I was ten years old and have been building them ever since.
Recently, I have had new inspiration in my hobby. Two things have happened to inspire me. My favorite hobby shop has started a club for model builders.

It is fun to get together with people who share my interest.
While my primary interest is in building military tanks and trucks, some of the other club members build other subjects such as cars, planes and science fiction. It’s fun and educational to exchange stories and discuss new techniques for building our different models.
For example, for the guys who build cars the important thing is painting a high gloss perfect paint job; for the science fiction guys it’s how to put lights inside the model to have the windows and engines look like they’re running; and for us armor guys it’s about weathering and dioramas to show how they were used.
The second thing to inspire me recently was in August when the International Plastic Modelers Club had there national show and contest here in Phoenix.
There wereover 1000 models on display of all types and levels of experience. Some were built by professional model builders and were truly amazing.
There was also an area were manufacturers sold there model kits. I spent more than I wanted to, but I found some good deals on models and supplies
that are hard to find in the hobby shops. Below is a diorama base I bought at the show which I had to assemble and paint and I added some figures and a Jeep which I had previously built. It was a lot of fun to build and I hope to continue increasing my skills.




We can do it !
SUN-TEC America Russ T
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What is ordinary in U.S. (Arizona) is not ordinary for Japanese

I moved to Arizona from Japan 13 years ago. Before then, I visited Arizona frequently for 5 years on business.
Without realizing, I am adopting the Arizona life style. When we have visitors from Japan, they are surprised to see what I thought ordinary. Maybe I was the same way about 18 years ago. Here are some examples.

I think Sun-Tec people already know how hot it is in Arizona in summer time. Nobody walks outside. First of all, it is almost impossible to walk to anywhere because most destinations are not walking distance anyway. Maybe because of the heat and distance, there are varieties of drive-through services. Japanese people would expect to see many fast food restaurants with a drive-through window, but many people are surprised to see dry cleaners, pharmacies and banks have a drive-through window, sometime even liquor stores.


Bank


Pharmacy

Because of the heat, many houses in Arizona have pools. If you fly into Phoenix Airport, you can see many houses with pools. Even most apartment complex has a pool.

The other thing that you notice from the air is that there are so many golf courses in Arizona.
If you drive 10 minutes, you will find a golf course.


Golf course

Because I started to play golf in Arizona, I am not so familiar with golf in Japan. Here we play 18 holes without a break. No lunch break after 9th hole, or no bathing after golf. But beer after 18th hole is a MUST (maybe only me?!).

Speaking of beer, most beer bottles here are small size, however, you see big bottles of Japanese beer at Japanese restaurants. I have seen American people drinking big bottle of beer straight from the bottle at restaurants, which always makes me feel weird. I believe that we Japanese should have a good table manner here in U.S., and when in U.S., do as the Americans do, however, I am not used to seeing people chugging straight from the big bottle.

M W
Sun-Tec America

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Letter from Michael Choi

Hello, every one of Sun-Tec and our customers and suppliers.
I am happy to have a chance to express of some of my thoughts and share them with you. We have been taking the four words as a routine statement and we are very familiar with them.

They are: “ WE CAN DO IT” with an exclamation mark at the end. Let’s take some moments and think and talk about this words.

First, who are “WE”? This word is not for a single person and more than two, including myself, you, him, her, our customers, our suppliers and all others who are working with us. This word means togetherness, not alone. I think this two letter word, WE is very powerful word in our society when recognize it as a one unity. This word includes our coworkers, superiors and subordinators in our company as well as personal and business relationships around us. I am glad that I am not the only one in this world and there are others whom I work with and I can get help from.


Next, what does the word “CAN” mean? I think this means having a confidence and ability. I detect everyone’s level of CAN are different. I think if something is 100 percent sure, we do not use word CAN, but we should say IS. CAN have some uncertainty and includes will power to make it happen. Depending on our determination and confidence level of thoughts, the word of CAN will be practiced.

Now, let’s think about the word of “DO”. This calls for Action and performance. Thinking only cannot be any part of DO. Only an action will bring us results and rewards. This word DO does not mean an easy work, and requires lots of efforts and hard work to get it done.

Last, what does the word “IT” mean in this sentence? This means all the challenges in our life. In our daily life we face all kind of problems which we need to work at.

With all these meanings of words as described above, how shall we interpret the entire sentence: “WE CAN DO IT !” ?
I am sure every one of us will understand this sentence differently and I will leave this up to everyone to interpret this his/hers own way. I just want to bring this sentence in front of everyone to have some time to think about it.

In my opinion, this sentence tells us that we should take all our challenges (Tasks) with confidence and determination and we should believe ourselves it will be successful at the end. There will be no impossibles by doing hard work together, you and me together.
In other words, once we believe it can be done and willing to work hard together, anything can be done.
It is matter to find a solution and there are no impossible tasks.

Let’s rephrase ourselves “WE CAN DO IT” whenever we face challenges!




Michael Choi
Marketing and Sales Rep
Sun-Tec America

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SID 2010 opening !

We are back in SID show again !
SID 2010 will opened from tomorrow in Seattle this year.
Seattle is very famous for Ichiro Suzuki of Mariners.

Today,we set up our booth and install machines.
SID 2009 in San Antonio was kind a quiet due to the swine flu.

In this year, we are expecting more visitors because display industry is very active now for 3D or Flexible paper display.
When I looking around in the exhibition hall, I see all booth intend the trend.



We are waiting for your visit.
Our booth number is No. 1009

We will introduce you Sun-Tec lamination technologies that
Sheet to Sheet, Roll to Sheet, Roll to Roll and Rigid to Rigid.

See you there !

We can do it !
SUN-TEC America RM
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Thank you for visiting Finetech 2010 at Tokyo big site

In the Last week April 14th to 16th, we had a stand booth in the Fine Tech Japan 2010 at Tokyo big site.

We had many visitors for the whole 3 days.
Thank you very much!
We have many foreign countries visitors this year especially from Taiwan and Korea.

Visitors most interest were our lamination machines.
We introduced our Sheet to Sheet , Roll to Sheet and Roll to Roll lamination technologies.
And we learned their ideas...it is very good for our progress.
Thank you very much.

Display technology is a constantly advancing field.
We have to keep up the speed and try our best to achieve the customer's request.

Again, thank you for many visitors for our booth.
We are really looking forward to seeing you again soon.



SUN-TEC HP progress team
Sun-Tec Japna Sales dept SY
We can do it!
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Cherry-blossom viewing parties

In Japan, April is the fresh starting month for most of schools and companies.
And it is the Sakura (Cherry blossom ) season !!!
You can see the beautiful pink trees at many places in Japan and this is great for the new start.

In this season, what we do is...."Cherry-blossom viewing party" !!
Sun-Tec factories do that every year.
Yes, We enjoy BBQ and Beers with viewing cherry -blossom!
In the Sendai factory, We held the party at factory parking area on March 26th .
The evening was still chilly but we enjoyed the BBQ party with neighbors (3 companies together)




In the head quarter factory, We held the party at factory entrance area on April 3rd.
It was beautiful day and the flower was full bloomed so it was the best day for the party.
We had just have new employees so it was a welcome party as well.





Enjoying Sakura-view, food, drink and conversations with everyone ...This is very traditional event in Japan and it is Japanese way of "Building team" :-)

And another Spring regular event for Sun-Tec is "Finetech" .
We will have a both for the Fine-tech Japan (April 14th to 16th at Tokyo big site)
It is the largest exhibition and conference specialized in FPD ( flat panel display) R&D and manufacturing technologies.
We will introduce our Sheet to sheet, Roll to sheet, Roll to roll and Rigid to rigid lamination machine technologies.
Please visit our booth.

Enjoy your Spring!

SUN-TEC HP progress team
Sun-Tec Japna Sales dept SY
We can do it!
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The 6th work site in the Sendai factory has been opened

In March 31st , 2010 , we had a opening ceremony for our 6th work site in Sendai factory.





This new site would allow us to expand capacity and
this site is more efficiently for building big machines.

We sustain our best effort to build best machine to help your production process
as well as to develop new technology and to give quality service.

Sun-Tec Japna Sales dept SY

We can do it!
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PV EXPO 2010 in TOKYO BIG SITE

We had a stand booth in PV EXPO 2010 in Tokyo Big site in the last week (Mar 3rd to 5th).
We appreciated that we had many visitors for our booth in this time again.
PV cell & module production and researching is gradually expanded in Japan so those visitors were looking for more specific solutions in this exhibit than the last year.

We exhibited 5 machines this year.
2 taping machines, 1 label application machine and 2 flat panel lamination machines.
Especially, the taping machines are very useful for the PV cell module production line.So we had many visitors interest.



If you are intersted in our Taping machine, please contact us!!
And once again, thank you for many visitors for our booth.
We are looking forward to seeing you all again!



Sun-Tec Japna Sales Dept SY
We can do it!
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Handmade Shochu BAR!

Kagoshima (our Sendai factory location) is famous for Black-Pork or Sakura-jima (active volcano)however I believe Imo-shochu(distilled spirit made from Sweet potato) is the best !

When I was early 20s, I could not drink alcohol at all but people around me kept telling me that if you were a man who was born in Kagoshima, you should be able to drink Imo-shochu!!
Then, I had practiced bit by bit and now I am under the spell of the imo-shochu totally !

And I wanted more enjoy my evening drink with shochu at home so I started remodeling my house's warehouse since 3 years ago with my friend.
It took about 1 year..and It is...


Ta-dah !!!



This is my shochu bar room!
I keep telling you that we did all it by ourselves ! ^^
（This counter is also hand-made ! it is good isn't it? ）


　　　　　　　


And also, I have been visiting various liquor shops in Kagoshima and collecting imo-shochu a little bit at a time.
I made this shelf as well and those are my shochu collection so far!
There are still some kinds I cannot have so...I keep doing that !

T.T Sendai Material dept　T・T

We can do it!
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New year message from President

Happy New year !
Thank you for visiting SUN-TEC blog.

The first article of this year is a message from our president .



Q1．Every new year , A kanji character is selected and it is 『力RIKI』(Means "Power") in this year.
Why you select this character for this year?
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A. (from President)

能力 (ability), 努力(effort), 気力(drive)

,眼力(keen-eyed),速力(speed), 胆力(gustiness),

活力(vitality)..

　　
I believe what is important is that we all have to try something positive to overcome this tough situation by each individual and/or company.
And this would be very good opportunity for us to get more "力　(Power)" ever than before


2．We have been also suffered from this world recession so we have started new year with holding some worries.
What do you expect from all employee to overcome this situation.
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A.
I think the ability to deal with any environment flexibly to the change in the situation to be tested.

You should believe this year is the true turning point and I believe that brightness will come into view whenever you are working on the difficult problem in front of you seriously step by step.
Eventually you will get many things at the individual level when you give your best to the customer's demand or technology and help company's development.



3．What is SUN-TEC appeal point for this year for the customer.
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A.
We keep focus on the " Provide loyalty and satisfaction for the customer " which is the company's philosophy since the company was established.

We are working as a strong team and provide the best service and product to the customers.
We all are trying to improve our tecnology and humanity as well.


Thank you very much and best wishes 2010


Mitsuo Matsumoto

President Sun-Tec Co., Ltd

We can do it!
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