Purpose
With a spirit of curiosity and exploration,
we develop architectural products of true value that connect people, planet, and the future.
We want to create a better society,
while remaining committed to the art and technology
that have always been fundamental to architectural culture.
Business
Overview
Windows & Doors
We support building homes with windows and doors. Reflecting the changes in living environments and diversifying needs, we are committed to providing “safe and secure” as well as “healthy and comfortable” products.
Interior Doors/Partitions
We help create indoor spaces through products such as interior doors and partitions. Created from our users’ viewpoint, we offer expansive lines of products with high functionality and stylish design. We are your partner for enhancing your lifestyle.
Exterior
We synthesize the building’s structure and exterior, offering various customization based on diverse lifestyles and locations.
Commercial Products
We create beautiful and functional urban spaces, providing value-added solutions while contributing to the realization of low carbon emissions in architecture.
Curtain Wall
From design to installation of large-scale or high-rise architecture, we offer facade systems that are optimal for each project.
Business
Overview
Residential
Commercial
Windows & Doors
We support building homes with windows and doors. Reflecting the changes in living environments and diversifying needs, we are committed to providing “safe and secure” as well as “healthy and comfortable” products.
Interior Doors/Partitions
We help create indoor spaces through products such as interior doors and partitions. Created from our users’ viewpoint, we offer expansive lines of products with high functionality and stylish design. We are your partner for enhancing your lifestyle.
Exterior
We synthesize the building’s structure and exterior, offering various customization based on diverse lifestyles and locations.
Commercial Products
We create beautiful and functional urban spaces, providing value-added solutions while contributing to the realization of low carbon emissions in architecture.
Curtain Wall
From design to installation of large-scale or high-rise architecture, we offer facade systems that are optimal for each project.
Industrial Products
Leveraging our experience in processing aluminum architectural products, we contribute to various industrial sectors by providing high-quality aluminum profiles.
*Some products may not be available in some regions.
At a Glance
YKK AP is an architectural products manufacturing company under the YKK Group, which is renowned for its zipper products.
Since entering the architectural field, we have developed into a global enterprise and a leader in the industry. YKK AP offers products
tailored to the specific needs of each country and region, and we are committed to continuing to provide solutions that satisfy customers worldwide.
Business
Started
Sales
Capital
Employees
Global
Offices
Investment in Research and development
Capital Investment
- *As of FY2020
- **Group-wide data
Global
Windows Leader
YKK AP windows and facade systems
are selected
in various architectural sceneries
around the globe
Saitama MADO (Window) Plant
- Built in 2011
- Green Good Design Awards 2019
Saitama MADO Plant---YKK AP’s central window factory. Recognized for its environmental efforts, it received the GREEN GOOD DESIGN AWARD in 2019. The plant’s curtain wall is uniquely designed using every type of window that has been produced in the facility.
Gardens By The Bay
- Built in 2012
- Guinness World Records 2015 Largest Glass Greenhouse - Flower Dome Guinness World Records
Gardens by the Bay -- the national botanical garden with its two iconic glass domes. Each an architectural marvel enveloping 16,000㎡ of interior space without any pillars, the three-dimensional surface of the structure consists of 6,000 sheets of plate glass and aluminum frames, which are logically designed for easy installation and maintenance.
M-Garden
- Propertyguru Vietnam Awards (Singapore), best hotel award in 2020
The idea of the architectural image of the project comes from the current situation of high-rise urban architecture along the coast of Da Nang, which is developing massively, creating massive, monotonous, and dry box shapes. M Garden City Hotel has been designed to break the monotonous "black box" structure in the minds of short-term investors, with a thick, dense vegetation moving from the ground floor garden. winding gradually up each floor, going deep inside each hotel room, creating separate, diverse sky gardens for each floor and ending in a large sky garden with a sand swimming pool. The artificial tree is suspended from a concrete pillar. The green streaks of sky gardens seem to play with the Fair-Face concrete block, bringing a fresh architectural image to the high-rise coastal urban area of Da Nang.
Xi Tang Ying Shan
- Built in 2015
Located on a small hilltop, Xi Tang Ying Shan takes advantage of its geography. Every dwelling unit faces the southeast, enjoying the view of Shenzhen City in the distance. YKK AP's highly watertight outswing windows and three-panel sliding patio windows provide a panoramic opening that captures a commanding view.
Gates Hall
- Built in 2014
Cornel University's Gates Hall was dedicated to its College of Computing and Information Science. It features an expansive open space filled with natural light. The 35,000 square feet curtainwall have excellent thermal insulation and light-shielding effects, enhancing the building's overall energy efficiency.
High Product
Performance
YKK AP's products undergo meticulous research and development, and are tested and validated internally through a strict quality control process
to ensure perfection before market launch. We take pride in the value we provide, which is embraced and trusted by our customers.
Below are some basic features of the doors, such as wind load resistance, noise reduction, and water leakage prevention.
Wind Load
Window frames
created in typhoon-ridden Japan
Wind load indicates how much the window frame can endure wind pressure. Through insights gained over the years in typhoon-ridden Japan, YKK AP has created the optimal form of durable window frames which meet building codes. We provide safety and security not only to residential homes but also to buildings where many people gather.
Meticulous design of the aluminum profiles ensures high wind load resistance.
Air Tightness
Minimizing air infiltration
Air tightness indicates how much each window can resist airflow from the gaps in window frames and doors. Pursuing tightness down to the millimeters, YKK AP’s meticulously designed windows prevent dust and dirt from entering inside, reduce sound insulation, and contribute to the creation of comfortable spaces.
The precise design with optimal combination of parts prevents noise, wind, and dust from entering the room.
Water Tightness
Meticulously designed to protect
the room from rainwater
Water tightness indicates how much each window can resist water entering from the gaps in frames and doors. Based on numerous tests, massive data as well as reliable manufacturing technology, YKK AP has created forms of window frames that do not let water in easily and drain it if any were to enter. The windows can enhance the overall durability of the other architectural products, including the walls and floor surrounding the window.
Designed to promote drainage based on our thorough knowledge of gravity, surface tension, capillary action, kinetic energy, and air pressure differences.
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Wind Load
Window frames created in typhoon-ridden Japan
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Air Tightness
Minimizing air infiltration
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Water Tightness
Meticulously designed to protect the room from rainwater
Wind load indicates how much the window frame can endure wind pressure. Through insights gained over the years in typhoon-ridden Japan, YKK AP has created the optimal form of durable window frames which meet building codes. We provide safety and security not only to residential homes but also to buildings where many people gather.
Air tightness indicates how much each window can resist airflow from the gaps in window frames and doors. Pursuing tightness down to the millimeters, YKK AP’s meticulously designed windows prevent dust and dirt from entering inside, reduce sound insulation, and contribute to the creation of comfortable spaces.
Water tightness indicates how much each window can resist water entering from the gaps in frames and doors. Based on numerous tests, massive data as well as reliable manufacturing technology, YKK AP has created forms of window frames that do not let water in easily and drain it if any were to enter. The windows can enhance the overall durability of the other architectural products, including the walls and floor surrounding the window.
Uncompromising
Pursuit
of Quality
Pursuing high quality by self-producing everything
from bar profile materials to parts
In order to assure high product quality, YKK AP has an integrated in-house production system to develop and produce materials, components, and manufacturing equipment. By integrating high technological skills, YKK AP realizes the high quality that customers can depend on.
Meeting customer needs
by understanding every possible climate
Germany
Indonesia
Japan
YKK AP established product Research and Development (R&D) Centers in three climate regions: Japan with a temperate climate, Germany with a cold climate, and Indonesia with a tropical climate. Through research, analysis, and data exchange among these centers, we develop products that meet user needs and are suited to the architecture of each region. YKK AP is proud to support architects in creating architectural aesthetics while ensuring the microclimate conditions within the projects.
Supporting Our Partners
to Reveal the True Product Potential
High precision processing and accurate installation--the two are indispensable for optimal performance. Pursuing ideal quality, our technical trainers with abundant experience hold seminars for processing and installation. We provide manuals filled with techniques transmitted over many years as well as support for elaborate quality control. YKK AP stresses the importance working with our partners to reveal the true potential of the products.
It is not only
windows that we open
but also
the future beyond.
YKK AP will continue pursuing quality improvement, expanding products and services that respond to social issues of the time,
as well as creating architectural products for the new era.