History
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| September |
1937 |
Founded
Azuma Iron Works at Ikuno-ku in Osaka-shi. |
| February |
1944 |
Left due to compulsory evacuation. |
| May |
1946 |
Restarted
Azuma Iron Works at Yokouchi, Ochi-cho,
Okawa-Gun in Kagawa. |
| January |
1950 |
Founded
TOKO Iron Works CO., Ltd. at
Nishimura Ochi-cho, Okawa-Gun
in Kagawa. |
| October |
1960 |
Purchased headquarter factory site and built new factory according to the first rationalization plan. Started manufacturing machine tool. |
| April |
1964 |
Started manufacturing high-speed cutter. |
| May |
1965 |
Developed automatic hydraulic cutter and started selling. |
| May |
1968 |
Additionally built headquarter factory according to the second rationalization plan. Started manufacturing hydraulic clicker TCM-500. |
| May |
1970 |
Completed
new type composite planar L15
type and L21 type. Newly built
second factory at Yokouchi, Ochi-cho, Okawa-Gun in Kagawa Prefecture.
Established full production system of planar and others. |
| July |
1973 |
Prepared factory integrating plan according to ten years plan.
Purchased site (9,000m2) adjacent to second factory. |
| March |
1974 |
Newly built employees housing. |
| January |
1982 |
Relocated and integrated headquarter to second factory site according to third rationalization plan. |
| October |
1982 |
Completed headquarter new building, new factory and welfare building. |
| October |
1983 |
Opened Tokyo Sales Office. |
| January |
1984 |
Started selling one-way PSP tray automatic hydraulic cutter and compact clicker. |
| February |
1985 |
Completed half-cut hydraulic series new products and started selling. |
| May |
1987 |
Changed corporate name to TOKO CO., Ltd. |
| April |
1989 |
Purchased adjacent site and newly installed factory according to fourth rationalization plan. Additionally installed 3 large scale machining centers and NC lathe with robot for production facility.
Changed Tokyo Sales Office to Tokyo Branch of TOKO CO., Ltd. |
| March |
1990 |
Started selling Hayabusa-kun "Ultra high speed cutter" and Tonbo-kun "Automatic hydraulic cutter with visual sensor". |
| January |
1991 |
Started selling PSP tray vacuum forming machine "Thoroughbred". |
| June |
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Completed new assembly factory |
| February |
1992 |
Started selling automatic hydraulic cutter with vacuum box take-out device. |
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1993 |
Started selling thermal compressed air plate forming machine, compressed air vacuum forming machine, blister forming machine, tray automatic wrapping machine and chipper. |
| May |
1996 |
50th year anniversary since foundation. |
| June |
1998 |
Introduced large scale machining center. |
