There are also several staff members working from multiple remote, home offices. time each day and sometimes earlier and later if necessary, to accommodate factory communications and customers in the other time zones. The New Jersey facility is staffed by essential personnel and is open from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm Eastern U.S. Frequent communications with our customers, our staff, and our partners is always important, and vitally important right now.”Īt Mitsui Seiki’s Franklin Lakes, New Jersey offices and at its headquarters factory just outside of Tokyo, Japan, all are following the protective recommendations suggested or ordered by international, national, and local health and governmental authorities. We all need to hang on right now, help those who may have veered off from the line, and get us all back to the ‘open waters’ of recovery. “During dangerous cave diving, holding the gold line gets the diver in and out of the cave safely. “The analogy I’ve been using during this emergency is that of a ‘gold line’ in scuba diving,” Walker says. Mitsui Seiki Chairman Scott Walker has relayed all the actions that the company has been taking for the health and welfare of its customers, partners, and employees since the outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.