Corporate Profile
Corporate Milestone
| 1926 | Kakusaburo Okamoto established the Okamoto Special Purpose Machine Tool Works as a privately owned company. |
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| 1935 | Incorporated as Okamoto Machine Tool Works, Ltd. with Head Office at 3-4 Ginza, Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo. |
| 1953 | Developed column cross feed type Surface Grinding Machine Model PSG-6. |
| 1957 | Developed Internal Grinding Machine Model IGM-1E. Development and production setup for all types of machine tools, including surface grinding machines completed. Capital increase to 30 million yen. |
| 1961 | Developed Gear Grinding Machine Model SHG-2 with worm type grinding wheel. |
| 1963 | Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange, 2nd Section. |
| 1972 | Established USA subsidiary Okamoto Corporation. |
| 1973 | Established subsidiary Okamoto (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. Gear Division of Hiroshima Plant was made independent and incorporated as Okamoto Gear Co., Ltd. |
| 1982 | Annaka Plant in Gunma Prefecture completed and started production. |
| 1987 | Established subsidiary Okamoto (Thai) Co., Ltd. |
| 1989 | Completed 2nd expansion of Annaka Plant. |
| 1991 | Okamoto enters an engineering and marketing collaboration with The Gleason Works of Rochester, NY (USA) related to gear equipment. |
| 1992 | Established Okamoto Machine Tool Europe GmbH in Germany. |
| 1995 | Established Okamoto Southeast Asia sales and service branch in Singapore, Okamoto Machine Tool Works, Ltd. Singapore branch. |
| 1996 | Developed Full Automatic Grinder VG502MKII8. Awarded with JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers) Medal. |
| 2001 | Developed Back Grinder GNX300P dock with Scanning Polisher System for Wafer Thinning Solution. |
| 2002 | Established Okamoto Machine Tool (Shanghai) Office. |