Nidec Machine Tool Corporation
History
| 1939 | Imigrated as Hiroshima Plant of Toyo Machinery Company and started manufacturing lathes. |
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| 1941 | Toyo Machinery Company has joined the Mitsubishi group. |
| 1944 | Kyoto Machinery Works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. established (Uzumasa, Katsura).Started manufacture of cutting tools and engine valves for automobiles. |
| 1983 | Constructed Ritto Plant in Ritto, Shiga Prefecture in Japan. |
| 1986 | Constructed the Ritto Universal Machine Manufacturing Plant. |
| 2003 | Construction of No. 2 machine tool plant.Hiroshima plant moved and integrated to the Ritto plant. |
| 2005 | Acquired S.R.P. Tools, an Indian cutting tool manufacturer. |
| 2010 | Began production of gear cutting machines at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Changshu) Machinery Co., Ltd. In China. |
| 2012 | Acquired Federal Broach Holdings, LLC, a U.S. broaches and broach machine manufacturer. |
| 2015 | Established Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd. as an independent business unit. |
| 2021 | Under the Nidec Group.Established NIDEC MACHINE TOOL CORPORATION |
| 1939 |
Began production of lathes
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| 1945 | Manufacturing of tools and jigs for aircraft engine |
| 1953 |
Developed Japan's first transfer machine for processing crankcases of agricultural machinery
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| 1960 |
Began production of the Mitsubishi-Innocenti CWB milling and boring combined machine
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| 1962 |
Developed Mitsubishi-Lorenz hobbing machine
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| 1966 | Developed Mitsubishi-Reihauer shaving cutter grinder “NZA model” |
| 1967 |
Developed Japan's first NC horizontal boring mill MAF machine
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| 1968 |
Developed the Mitsubishi horizontal machining center "MPA Series"
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| 1969 |
Advancement in NC technology.Developed “Precision Position Feedback Detectors”
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| 1973 |
Developed Mitsubishi-Warner Swasey cylindrical grinding machine
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| 1980 |
Developed Japan's first NC gear hobbing machine “GH400NC”
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| 1985 |
Developed vertical precision milling machine "M-VR series".
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| Developed “YAG Laser equipment” | |
| 1986 |
Completed the world's largest-class NC milling and boring combined machine "Supermiller"
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| 1987 | Developed a high speed, high precision die and mold machine "M-KR series" |
| 1997 |
Developed a dry cutting system(SuperDry hobbing machines "GN series” and “SuperDry hob cutter”)
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| 2002 | Began sales of SuperDry hobbing machines "GE series” |
| 2005 |
Developed the world's first wafer bonding machine operable at room temperature for MEMS
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| 2006 |
Developed the micro milling machine "μV1"
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| 2009 |
Developed world's first mass production type internally toothed ring gear grinding machine "ZI20A"
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| 2014 |
Developed world's first “Super Skiving Cutter”
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Developed Laser Micromachining System “ABLASER”
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| 2016 |
Developed gear skiving machine “MSS300”
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Developed large precision machines “MVR-Fx series”
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| 2019 |
Developed the Direct Energy Deposition Additive Manufacturing System “LAMDA”
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