Corporate History

1971

Susumu Kotani founded Yushin Precision Equipment (Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City).

 


1972

Established Yushin Precision Equipment Co. Ltd. (October).

Susumu Kotani, assumption of office as President.

 


1984

Opened Tokyo Sales Office (Akabane) and Saitama Service Station (Ageo City).



1985

Opened Chubu Sales Office (Toyohashi City).

Moved Head Office and its factory from Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City to Fushimi-ku.

Integrated Tokyo Sales Office and Saitama Service Station into Kanto Sales Office
(Omiya City).

 


1986

Opened Tohoku Local Office (Fukushima City).

 


1987

Opened a showroom at Head Office.

Completed Orient House West (Kyoto City), a dormitory for unmarried employees.

Opened Higashi Osaka Service Station (Higashi Osaka City).

 


1988

Opened Hiroshima Local Office (Hiroshima City).

Started Yushin School as an education system for take-out robot technology.

Established Yushin America Inc. (U.S.A.)

 


1989

Relocated Chubu Sales Office to Toyokawa City.

 


1990

Opened Shizuoka Local Office (Shizuoka City) and Fukuoka Local Office (Fukuoka City).

 


1991

Completed the 2nd factory for Head Office.

Completed a new building for Kanto Sales Office and Orient House East (Omiya City), a dormitory for unmarried employees.

 


1992

Opened Toyama Local Office (Toyama City) and Nagano Local Office (Shiojiri City).

 


1993

Opened Kanagawa Local Office (Atsugi City).

 


1994

Renamed all sales offices as general sales offices and all local offices as sales offices.

 


1995

Received the Kyoto Technological Grand Award for Small and Medium-Sized Companies.

 


1996

Opened Thailand (Bangkok) Representative Office and Shenzhen Representative Office (China).

Incorporated Yushin America Inc. as a subsidiary (Yushin s capital ratio: 60%).

Opened Nishi Kanto General Sales Office (Atsugi City).

Listed in the Second Section of Osaka Securities Exchange and in Kyoto Stock Exchange (December).

 


1997

Opened Nagoya Nishi Sales Office (Kuwana City).

Started the operation of the production information management system that completely networks all of Yushin’s offices throughout Japan.

Opened Tokyo General Sales Office (Chuo-ku) and Tsukuba Sales Office at the same time.

Renamed Kanto General Sales Office as Kita Kanto General Sales Office.

 


1998

Opened Indonesia (Jakarta) Representative Office.

Completed the 3rd factory for Head Office.

Opened Korea (Seoul) Branch Office and Shanghai (China) Representative Office.

Established Polymac-Yushin B.V. (The Netherlands).

Certified as conforming to ISO 9001, an international standard.

Opened Taiwan (Taipei) Representative Office.

 


1999

Opened Tochigi Sales Office (Sano City).

 


2000

Established Yushin Korea, Subsidiary in Korea.

 


2001

Certified as conforming to ISO 14001, an international standard for environmental management system.

Opened Yushin Parts Shop, an e-commerce site.

Opened Philippine Representative Office and Yamanashi Sales Office (Kofu City).

Established Subsidiaries in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.

 


2002

Mayumi Kotani, assumption of office as President (December).

 


2003

Opened “Gate Cut Test Room”, an experiment room for gate cutting of plastic molded products such as backlight plates and plastic lenses.

Opened Tianjin (China) Representative Office.

Completed the 2nd factory East for Head Office.

 


2004

Established Yushin Automation, Subsidiary in UK.

Established Yushin Precision Equipment Industry & Trading (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., Subsidiary in China.

Established Yushin Precision Equipment (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Subsidiary in China.

Opened a new Sales office of Yushin America Inc. in Kentucky (U.S.A.).


2005

Completed the 5th factory for Head Office.

Opened Vietnam Representative office.

Established Yushin Precision Equipment (Slovakia) s.r.o., Subsidiary in Slovakia.