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History of Mitutoyo

1930-1959

1960-1979

1980-1999

2000-

Corporation chronicle

Product chronicle


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.

1980-


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”.


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.


1990-

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”.
Started production of CNC vision measurement machine “Quick Vision Series”. (1994)

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”.


1960-1979

2000-