Company History

Up to 19691970s1980s1990s2000s2010s

1932

Makino Iron Works founded by Tetsujiro Makino in Tokoname

1938

Makino shaper – milling machine – completed

1947

Makino Iron Works Corporation established

1952

Production of pug mill started
Production of 4-shaku (1.2 m dia.)
edge mill started
Production of membrane pump started
Production of filter press started

1958

Production of sanitary ware grinding machine started

1959

Production of 4-ton ball mill started

1961

Construction of new machinery plant,
foundry, and assembly plant in
Mitsuike district of Tokoname

1963

Construction of new Iga-Ueno Plant in
Ueno (now Iga), Mie Prefecture

1967

Recognized by Aichi Labor Standards Bureau for
excellence in sanitation management

1969

Construction of new Kyushu plant in
Kashima, Saga Prefecture

Events around that time in Japan

1923: Great Kanto Earthquake
1941: Japan joined the World War Ⅱ
1946: The constitution of Japan promulgated
1958: Tokyo Tower construction completed
1964: Tokaido Shinkansen service launched,
Tokyo Olympics
1968: The 300 million yen robbery case
occurred

Events around that time in the World

1929: The Great Depression
1945: Establishment of the United Nations
1950: Korean War
1957: First man-made satellite, Sputnik 1,
launched by the Soviet Union
1964: Vietnam War
1969: Apollo 11 moon landing

1970: Head office moved to Mitsuike (now Ohso-cho), Tokoname
1972: Production of filter press for water and sewage processing started
1975: Production of 1500×1500 filter press started

Production of new closed-type diaphragm pump started
1976: Designated by Director-General of Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Agency
as model streamlined plant of small and medium-sized enterprise
1977: Production of 2000×2000 large filter press for turbid
water treatment started

Events around that time in Japan

1970: Japan World Exposition, Osaka
1972: Okinawa reverted to Japan,
First pandas arrived in Japan,
Sanyo Shinkansen service launched
1976: Lockheed scandal
1977: New world record of 756 career home
runs set by Sadaharu Oh
1978: New Tokyo International Airport
(Narita Airport) opened

Events around that time in the World

1972: Watergate scandal
1975: First summit the Group of Six (G6) of
industrialized nations
1976: Concorde regular service started
1978: Birth of world’s first child conceived by
in-vitro fertilization
1979: Margaret Thatcher became the first
female Prime Minister of the UK

1982

Production of fully automatic equipment for high-pressure casting of sanitary
ware started

Tokyo Office opened

Design and engineering work streamlined by introduction of CAD/CAM

1986

Production of water-cooled ball mill for
Japanese green tea started

1989

Production of micro filter press for
beer brewing started

Events around that time in Japan

1982: Tohoku Shinkansen and Joetsu
Shinkansen service launched
1984: Glico Morinaga extortion case
occurred
1987: JR Group created from the division and
privatization of Japanese National
Railways
1988: Seikan Ferry service discontinued,
Seikan Tunnel opened
1989: Showa era ended, and Heisei era
begun,
3% consumption tax introduced

Events around that time in the World

1980: Iran-Iraq War
1981: First flight of space shuttle Columbia
1986: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
accident
1987: Black Monday (New York stock-market
crash)
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall,
Tiananmen Square protests

1990

Company name changed to Makino
Corporation as corporate identity strategy

Equipment installed for recycling sewage
sludge incineration ash

1991

New head office building completed

Makino named sole agent in Japan for Händle GmbH, Germany

1992

New Kyushu Plant built

1993

Ultra-high pressure filter press
developed
Production of precision filter press
for sake or rice wine started
Production of precision filter press
for blood products started

1997

Export of sanitary ware plant to Vietnam started

1998

Production of 2000×2000 high pressure laminated filter press started

1999

Makino named sole agent in Japan for Novokeram GmbH, Germany

Events around that time in Japan

1990: First space flight by Japanese
astronaut,
First examinations conducted by the
National Center for University Entrance
Examinations
1992: Yamagata Shinkansen service
launched
1993: Crown Prince Naruhito wed,
First season of J League
“professional soccer league”
1995: Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake,
Tokyo subway sarin gas attack
1998: First appearance of Japanese team at
Soccer World Cup in France

Events around that time in the World

1990: Persian Gulf War, German reunification
1991: Collapse of the Soviet Union
1992: Kyoko Iwasaki became the
youngest-ever gold medalist in
the breaststroke at the Barcelona
Olympics
1997: Hong Kong reverted to China
1999: Euro introduced as single currency of
the eurozone

2000

Production of 2000×2000 large diaphragm type
filter press for public works started

2002

Production of MDF710 full automatic diaphragm
type filter press started

Makino named sole agent in Japan for FM Srl, Italy

Export of sanitary ware plant to China

2003

Air swept tube mill developed (for crushing metal)

2004

Makino Machinery (SIP) Co., Ltd.
established in Suzhou, China

Production of continuous crusher for raw materials for displays started

2005

MDF1000 full automatic diaphragm type filter press developed

Head office showroom opened

2006

MDF1300 full automatic diaphragm type filter press developed

2007

Makino named sole agent in Japan for ECT GmbH, Germany

2008

Makino Machinery (SIP) Co., Ltd. relocated

Events around that time in Japan

2000: BS digital broadcasting started,
2000-yen bill issued
2002: Japan-Korea World Cup
Victims of North Korean abduction
returned to Japan
2003: Japan Post established
Terrestrial digital broadcasting started
2005: Central Japan International Airport
opened
World Exposition, Aichi, Japan
(Love the Earth Expo)
2009: Lay judge system started,
New influenza strain outbreak

Events around that time in the World

2001: September 11th terrorist attacks
2003: Iraq War
2005: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall
2008: Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Sales of iPhone 3G begun
2009: Barack Obama inaugurated as
President of the United
States of America

2011

Makino named sole agent in Japan for Jingjin
Environmental Protection, Inc., China

2013

Polluted soil decontamination system developed

Mobile treatment system for road cutter wastewater developed

2014

Makino named sole agent in Japan for Chinese
Nature Plastic (Suzhou) Industrial Co., Ltd., China

New fully automatic diaphragm type filter press for civil works developed

2016

Machining facilities renewed and newly introduced
・ Hybrid drive vendor (Vending machine)
・ Opposed twin-spindle CNC lathe
・ Machining center with five-face machining
　equipment (Multicenter)
・ NC grooving machine (Key seater)
・ CNC/Engine lathes
・ High efficiency general purpose milling
　machine

Machining center with
five-face
machining equipment
(Multicenter)

2017

Machining facilities renewed and newly introduced
・ Positioning drilling machine (Drill setter)
・ Horizontal type machining center
・ Turning center

Events around that time in Japan

2011: Great East Japan Earthquake
Soccer World Cup won by Japanese
women’s team Nadeshiko Japan
Analog broadcasting terminated
2012: Tokyo Sky Tree opened,
Annular solar eclipse
2013: Mount Fuji registered as World
Heritage site,
Japanese dietary culture registered as
Intangible Cultural,
Heritage of Humanity
2014: Consumption tax increased to 8%
2015: My Number system started,
Hokuriku Shinkansen service launched

Events around that time in the World

2011: Catastrophic floods in Thailand
2012: Shinya Yamanaka awarded Nobel Prize
for Physiology or Medicine
2013: Tokyo named as site of 2020
Olympics,
Air defense identification zone
including Senkaku Islands
declared by China
2014: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and
Shuji Nakamura awarded Nobel Prize
for Physics
2015: Paris terrorist attacks,
Diplomatic relations restored between
the U.S.A. and Cuba