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Discorso Watanabe

Company History

November 1923: Founded by Jokichi Watanabe in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. January 2003: Obtained ISO14001 certification in YAMAWA TAP Co.,Ltd.
December 1937: Company incorporated. October 2003: Obtained ISO14001 certificaiton in YAMAWA Mfg. Co.,Ltd.
May 1945: Factory established in Yonezawa City in Yamagata prefecture. April 2006: Obtained ISO14001 certification in TAIWAN YAMAWA Co.,Ltd.
January 1953: Spun off Yonezawa Factory into a separate company as October 2006: Spun off Export Dept. into a separate company,
YAMAWA TAP Co.,Ltd. YAMAWA INTERNATIONAL Co., Ltd.
June 1955: All products certified to Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) categories. January 2007: Spun off Taiwan Sales Dept into a separate company,
October 1956: Awarded by the Department of Trade and Industry for superiority in YAMAWA ASIA Co., Ltd.
industrial standardization. May 2007: Obtained ISO14001 certification in YAMAWA ASIA Co.,Ltd.
October 1963: Awarded by the Institute of Industrial Technology for superiority in March 2008: Newly constructed Tsutsumi Factory of Yamawa Mfg began operation.
industrial standardization. September 2008: Obtained ISO14001certification in YAMAWA ENGINEERING Co.,Ltd.,
April 1964: Newly constructed Fukushima Factory began operation. YAMAWA TC CENTER Co.,Ltd and YAMAWA INTERNATIONAL Co.,Ltd.
November 1973: Awarded from the Department of Trade and Industry as superiority in June 2011: Obtained ISO14001 and ISO9001 certification in YAMAWA Tsutsumi
industrial standardization. Factory.
October 1983: Established YAMAWA ENGINEERING Co., Ltd. February 2012: Obtained ISO9001 certification in TAIWAN YAMAWA and YAMAWA ASIA.
December 1984: New machine tool manufacturing shop constructed inside the Fukushima October 2012: Obtained ISO9001 certification in YAMAWA Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Factory. December 2013: Newly constructed Tsutsumi No.2 Factory of Yamawa Mfg. began
October 1986: Newly completed Aizu Factory began operation. operation.
July 1989: Newly constructed Taiwan Factory opened. October 2014: YAMAWA TC Center Co., LTD. and YAMAWA Engineering Co., LTD. were
April 1991: Spun off Fukushima Factory and Aizu Factory into a separate company, merged into a new company “YAMAWAEngineering Service Co., LTD.”
YAMAWA PRECISION Co., Ltd. January 2016: YAMAWA Europe S.p.A. founded in Italy.
November 1995: Established TC (Total Cutting) CENTER Co., Ltd.
June 1996: YAMAWA TAP Co., Ltd. obtained ISO 9001 certification.
July 2000: YAMAWA PRECISION Co., Ltd. in Aizu Factory obtained ISO 9001 ISO 9001/14001 certitication
certification.
October 2000: YAMAWA PRECISION Co., Ltd. in Fukushima Factory also obtained ISO 9001
certification.
August 2001: Established YAMAWA TC CENTER Co., Ltd from TC CENTER.
October 2002: Obtained ISO14001 certification in YAMAWA PRECISION Co., Ltd. at
Fukushima Factory.
December 2002: Obtained ISO14001 certification in YAMAWA PRECISION Co., Ltd. at Aizu
Factory.

Origin of corporate name, “YA” “MA” “WA”.

Y Mr. Jokichi Watanabe, the founder of the company, decided to use shop name “YA” “MA” “WA”,
which he had been using in his family business instead of using his personal name. And he
gave to his company the name “YA” “MA” “WA” by employing lucky words and the same conno-
taion “YAMAWA” from ancient Japanese characters, MANYOGANA. The meaning of YAMAWA is
“Greater prosperity, More united”. In this word, he put a wish “as the company becomes prospe-

rous, the harmony among employees becomes more precious”.

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