| 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. |
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| 1953 |
Developed column cross feed
type Surface Grinding Machine Model PSG-6. |
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| 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. |
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| 1961 |
Developed Gear Grinding Machine
Model SHG-2 with worm type grinding wheel. |
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| 1963 |
Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange,
2nd Section. |
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| 1972 |
Established USA subsidiary Okamoto
Corporation. |
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| 1973 |
Established subsidiary Okamoto
(Singapore) Pte. Ltd. in Singapore.
Gear Division of Hiroshima Plant was made independent
and incorporated as Okamoto Gear Co., Ltd. |
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| 1982 |
Annaka Plant in Gunma Prefecture
completed and started production. |
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| 1987 |
Established subsidiary Okamoto
(Thai) Co., Ltd. |
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| 1989 |
Completed 2nd expansion of Annaka
Plant. |
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| 1991 |
Okamoto enters an engineering
and marketing collaboration with The Gleason Works of
Rochester, NY (USA) related to gear equipment. |
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| 1992 |
Established Okamoto Machine
Tool Europe GmbH in Germany. |
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| 1995 |
Established Okamoto Southeast
Asia sales and service branch in Singapore, Okamoto Machine
Tool Works, Ltd. Singapore branch. |
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| 1996 |
Developed Full Automatic Grinder
VG502MKII8.
Awarded with JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Medal. |
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| 2001 |
Developed Back Grinder GNX300P
dock with Scanning Polisher System for Wafer Thinning
Solution. |
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| 2002 |
Established Okamoto Machine
Tool (Shanghai) Office. |
