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History of TOKYO ROKI
1949. 3 Tokyo Roki Co., Ltd. was established (at Denen-chofu, Ota-ku, Tokyo) to start the commercial business of manufacturing and selling the air cleaners and oil filters for internal combustion engines. 1952. 4 The engineering department was organized to start developing the filter papers.
1955. 6 The headquarters building and Kawasaki Plant were completed at Ichinotsubo, Kawasaki-shi, and we then moved into there. 1958. 2 Our various filters for airplanes have passed through the approval tests by the Self-defense Agency of Japan.
1960. 4 Manufacturing the mufflers for internal combustion engines was started.
1961. 1 The town offices were opened at Nagoya, Osaka and Hiroshima, respectively.
1962. 9 The IBM/PCS was introduced into the company to start the computer-processing of the office jobs.
1964. 5 Yokohama Plant was completed; the systems of manufacturing the elements were established; and the platinum-catalyst purging mufflers for diesel engines were developed.
1965.10 The nationwide 8 office systems were established.
1966. 9 Yokohama Plant started the commercial production of "throw-away type cartridge filters," a new product then.
1966.12 Kusatsu Plant was completed (in Shiga-ken) to start the commercial production of air cleaners.
1967. 7 The demonstration running tests with actual vehicles of exhaust-gas purging mufflers were started.
1969. 4 Hiroshima Plant was completed (in Hiroshima-ken) to start manufacturing the air cleaners.
1971. 4 Sagami Plant was completed to start manufacturing the oil coolers.
1972. 4 The Tokyo Roki technical center was opened, resulting in being proud of the biggest scale in the filter-related research centers in Japan.
1974.10 Hamamatsu Plant was completed and the mass-production systems of cartridge filters were established therein.
1976. 3 Otsuki Plant was completed (in Yamanashi-ken) to start manufacturing the air cleaners.
1976.11 The toner filter elements for dry reproducing machines were developed.
1979.11 The headquarters was moved to a new headquarters building at Shin-yokohama (in Yokohama-shi).
1984. 3 The technical center was moved into the headquarters building.
1984. 4 Yokohama Plant was opened, making it a center for developing the special equipment and products.
1985. 6 The systems of analyzing the information via computers were introduced.
1992. 4 The TIS (Integrated Whole-company On-line Network Systems) started the full-scale operations.
1995. 8 The new headquarters and research center were completed (at Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama-shi), to where moved from Shin-yokohama.
1996. 8 New Sagami Plant and the Sagami research center were completed (at Tana, Sagamihara-shi).
1997. 1 New Sagami Plant (at Tana, Sagamihara-shi) started the full-scale commercial operations
2001.1 New Sagami the second plant(at Tana,Sagamihara-shi) was completed to start manufacturing plastic intake manifold.
2001.2 Unicat,inc was established.
2005.4 Hiroshima Plant was established.
2006.8 Tokyo Roki (Suzhou) Co.,Ltd. was completed(at Suzhou, CHINA).
2008.5 New Sagami the third plant(at Tanashioda, Sagamihara-shi) was completed.
2010.11 Tokyo Roki (Thailand) Co.,Ltd. is launched.
 
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