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 1980 Established Yasuura Factory at Yasuura-cho, Toyota-gun, Hiroshima prefecture. 1981 Founded Sampo Nederland B.V. (current Mitutoyo Nederland B.V.) in the Netherlands. Founded Mitutoyo Scandinavia A. B. 1982 Established and started operation of Kiyohara Plant at Kiyohara district in Utsunomiya as a dedicated factory for linear scales. Founded Mitutoyo Belgium N.V. 1983 Opened CT Laboratories in Germany. 1985 Yehan Numata was inaugurated as the Executive Advisor, Toshihide Numata as the chairman of the board of directors and Yoshiteru Numata as the president. Established Miyazaki Plant (dedicated to gauge block production) at Tano-cho of Miyazaki prefecture and succeeded in production from Numata Research Laboratory. 1986 Founded Mitutoyo France S.A.R.L. Founded Micro Encoder Inc. in Kirkland, U.S.A. 1987 Founded Mitutoyo Taiwan Co., Ltd. in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded Mitutoyo Italiana S.R.L. Renamed to Mitutoyo Corporation, and merged Mitutoyo Trade Corporation. Established and started operation of Shiwa Plant in Higashi-Hiroshima as a dedicated factory for micrometers. Established subterranean institute building for high precision scales, in Kiyohara Plant. 1988 Founded Mitutoyo Schweiz AG in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded Mitutoyo (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. |
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1980 Started production of “Digimatic Height Gages”, “HD Series”. Developed probe automatic exchangeable universal CMM “MBS” for roundness measurement. 1981 Started production of “Digimatic indicators”, “ID Series”. 1983 Started production of “Digimatic calipers”, “CD Series”. Started production of “Laser Scan Micrometers”. 1984 Developed optical microscope FS Series. 1985 Developed portable surface roughness tester “Surftest 201”. 1986 Started production of non-contact machine for measuring roll diameters. 1987 Started production of non-contact CMMs. Started production of measurement data network system “μ-net”. 1988 Developed and started production of ceramic gauge block. Developed a length measuring encoder “Laser Holoscale”. |
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1990 Founded European Research Laboratory in the Netherlands for researching into basic technology of measurement. Akashi Corporation, as a group company of Mitutoyo, took over testing machines and measuring instruments business from Akashi Seisakusho. 1992 Established Tsukuba Research Laboratory in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture. 1994 Founded Mitutoyo Korea Corporation. 1995 Norio Takatsuji was inaugurated as the President. 1996 Founded Mitutoyo South Asia Pvt. Ltd. in New Delhi, India. 1997 Established and started operation of Nakatsugawa plant. Founded Mitutoyo (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Founded KOMEG Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH Founded Mitutoyo Finance Europe AG 1998 Founded Mitutoyo Measuring Instruments (Suzhou) in Suzhou in China. 1999 Founded Mitutoyo Association for Science and Technology. |
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1991 Developed a roundness measuring machine “RA600 Series”, provided with analysis software running on a personal computer. Developed an XY position detecting encoder. 1993 Developed an interferometer as the standard for Gauge block calibration. Developed ABS Digimatic linear encoder. Started production of ABS Digimatic calipers. 1994
Developed and started production of non-contact CNC vision measurement machine named “Quick Vision Series”. Developed and started production of economy-type CNC CMM “Bright Series”. Started production of ABS solar-type Digimatic calipers. 1995 Started production of ABS Digimatic Indicators. Developed a vertically-dual head differential-type Gauge block comparator. 1996 Developed vision measuring machine “Quick Scope QS series”. Multi-joint typed CMM digitizer “Spin arm”. 1997 Developed and released CMM with temperature compensation function: “FALCIO Series” provided with analysis software for running on a personal computer. 1998 Developed and released horizontal CNC CMM for in-line measurement “MACH Series”. Developed and released ultra-high accuracy CNC CMM “LEGEX Series”. 1999 Developed non-contact laser displacement gage Laser Indicator “LI-4030N/5030T”. Developed world’s largest 35-ton vibration testing machines “NASD”. |
