SMC Corporation manufactures, processes, and sells automatic control equipment worldwide. The company offers air management system, directional control valves, air cylinders, rotary actuators, air grippers, magnet grippers, electric actuators/cylinders, vacuum equipment, air grippers for collaborative robots, compact compressor, air preparation equipment, modular F.R.L., pressure control equipment, booster regulators, lubrication equipment, gas generator, fittings and tubing, flow control equipment, speed controllers, silencers/exhaust cleaners/pressure gauges, air blowing equipment, switches/sensors/controllers, static neutralization equipment/ionizers, industrial device communication equipment/wireless system, process valves, chemical valves/fittings & tubing/needle valves, process pumps/diaphragm pumps, temperature control equipment, process gas equipment ap tech, high vacuum equipment, industrial filters/sintered metal elements, pneumatic instrumentation equipment, hydraulic equipment, and specialized products for general use. It serves automobiles, semiconductor/liquid crystal/electric, machine tool, food/beverages, physicochemical/medical/pharmaceutical, agriculture, energy, production facility, and other industries. The company was formerly known as Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd. and changed its name to SMC Corporation in April 1986. SMC Corporation was incorporated in 1959 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.