History

January 1925	Kuroda Gauge Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was founded by Saburo Kuroda for manufacture and sale of all types of gauges.
March 1935	The production and distribution of block gauges started.
November 1935	The company was reorganized into a limited partnership company (capital: 200,000 yen).
1938	Onuki Laboratory, the predecessor of Futtsu Factory, was established.
January 1943	The company was reorganized into a stock company (capital: 980,000 yen).
September 1946	Erly press tool Production and sale of press tools.
April 1949	The present company was established through investment in kind from the old company (capital: 4.6 million yen).
April 1953	Production and sales of surface grinding machines started.
November 1955	The plants obtained the approval for displaying the JIS mark for thread gauges.
April 1957	The company obtained the approval from the American Petroleum Institute for using its official mark on reference master gauge for API Std. 5A and Std. 5L threads.
September 1961	Production and sales of pneumatic equipments started.
October 1961	Listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Capital: 250 million yen)
Decembe 1961	Nagano Plant was completed.
December 1962	Production and sales of ball screws started.
June 1965	The corporation name was changed from Kuroda Gauge Manufacturing Co., Ltd. toKuroda Precision Industries, Ltd.
April 1966	The head office transferred to Kita-senzoku Kamata, Ota ward.
September 1970	Asahi Plant was completed.
April 1976	The head office transferred to Shimohirama, Saiwai-ward , Kawasaki-city.
1978	Production and sales of laminated precision press tools "FASTEC®" started.
December 1980	Capitalization increased to 850 million yen.
April 1981	Capitalization increased to 935 million yen.
April 1985	Production and distribution of CNC formation surface grinders started.
February 1986	Establishment of a liaison office in Chicago (USA) as an overseas operation point.
May 1987	Production and sale of the "Super Polishing Machine" an ultla-precision mirror surface processor started.
April 1989	Production and sale of rolled ball screws started.
July 1991	Production and sale of "NANOMETRO®" a surface configuration measuring device started.
November 1994	Production and sales of precision forming surface grinding machine "GS-515E" started.
December 1996	Kuroda Precision Industries Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. was established as a joint venture in Malaysia with Kawasho Corporation and KSPC Co. (Now a consolidated subsidiary.)
April 1998	Construction of a new rolled ball screw factory within the Asahi Plant.
January 1999	Production and sales of "ECOSAVER®" a minimal quantity lubrication system for semi-dry processing started.
May 1999	Business and capital tieup was conducted with Parker Hannifin Corporation (USA).
July 1999	Capitalization increased to 1,875 million yen.
March 2000	Construction of the 7th factory at the Asahi Plant.
March 2001	Construction of the 6th factory (PE factory) at the Nagano Plant.
April 2001	Construction of a new factory at the Futtsu Plant for production of ball screws.
November 2001	Kuroda Precision Industries Pinghu Co., Ltd. was established as a joint venture in Pinghu City, Zhejiang, China with Kawasho Corporation and Jiangsu Kawaden Steel Products Co., Ltd. (Now a consolidated subsidiary.)
October 2003	The pneumatic equipment business was split-up and Kuroda Pneumatics Ltd. was established.
November 2005	Production and sale of motor core for hybrid vehicle started.
December 2005	The production and sale of the NANOMETRO® FTT1500 series, a configuration measuring system for large photo-mask substrates for flat panel display started.
March 2006	70% of Kuroda Pneumatics' issued shares were transferred to Parker Hannifin Corporation (USA).
November 2006	Production and sale " Next generation artisan GS45 series " - a new series of precision surface grinding machine started.
August 2008	Kazusa Akademia Plant was completed.
April 2010	Kuroda Precision Industries Korea Co.Ltd was established (Now a consolidated subsidiary).
November 2012	100% of the shares of Avingtrans Industrial Products Ltd. (UK) were acquired and the company became a subsidiary.
July 2013	The common brand of drive related equipments and spindle products KURODA JENA TEC was launched and started sales.
July 2013	The head office transferred to Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ward , Kawasaki-city.
January 2014	Business tieup was conducted with the Euro Group (Italy), and the joint venture of Eurotranciatura U.S.A. LLC was established in Tennessee (USA). The universal tooling business was transferred to Century Trading Corporation (Taiwan), and the joint venture Winwell Japan Co.Ltd. was established.
May 2014	Kuroda Jena Tec Trading Pinghu Co., Ltd. was established as sales company in Pinghu City, Zhejiang, China

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