November
Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.: Limited partnership company Yamato Sash Works* established in Ota-ku, Tokyo.
History
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1936
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1939
May
Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.: Yamato Sash Works renamed Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.
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1945
March
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Yamakawa Bankin Kogyo Co., Ltd.* established in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
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1953
June
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Head office and plant shifted from Fujinomiya City to Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
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1961
March
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Yamakawa Bankin Kogyo Co., Ltd. renamed Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.
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1962
February
Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.: Head office shifted from Ota-ku, Tokyo to Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Sagami Plant established.
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1966
October
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Kanae Kogyo Co., Ltd., converted into affiliate through acquisition of shares.
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1970
December
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Moka Plant established in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture.
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1971
February
Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.: Oyama Plant established in Oyama City, Tochigi Prefecture.
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1974
April
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: San-Esu Kogyo Co., Ltd.* (now San-Esu Co., Ltd.) converted into affiliate through acquisition of shares.
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1976
January
Katsuyama Press Kogyo Co., Ltd. established as three-way joint venture involving Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd., Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd., and Mitsuike Corporation, and then converted into affiliate.
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1984
October
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: YSM Co., Ltd. established.
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1987
February
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Yamakawa Manufacturing Corporation of America (now Unipres U.S.A., Inc.) established in Portland, Tennessee, U.S.A. through joint venture with Marubeni Corporation.
October
Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.: Nissan Yamato Engineering Ltd. established in Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, U.K. as joint venture with Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd., and then converted into affiliate.
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Fujinomiya Plant established in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Yamakawa Co., Ltd.* (now Unipres Service Corporation) converted into subsidiary through acquisition of shares.
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1989
May
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Yamakawa Hiroshima Co., Ltd.* established (name changed to Unipres Hiroshima Co., Ltd.* in July 1999).
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1990
February
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Listed on the Japan Securities Dealers Association's over-the-counter (OTC) market.
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1995
March
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Yamakawa Manufacturing de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (now Unipres Mexicana, S.A. de C.V.) established in San Francisco de los Romo, Aguascalientes, Mexico, through three-way joint venture involving Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd., Marubeni Corporation, and Unipres U.S.A., Inc.
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1997
December
Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.: Yamato Logistics Co., Ltd.* (now Unipres Butsuryu Co., Ltd.) converted into subsidiary through acquisition of shares.
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1998
January
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd.: Hanabusa Works Co., Ltd.* and Sanritsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.* merged to create Cosmo Techno Co., Ltd.* (now Unipres Precision Corporation).
March
Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd.: Nissan Yamato Engineering Ltd. (now Unipres (UK) Limited) converted into subsidiary through acquisition of shares.
April
Yamakawa Industrial Co., Ltd. and Yamato Kogyo Co., Ltd. merged to create Unipres Corporation.
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2002
January
Unipres Southeast U.S.A., Inc. established in Forest, Mississippi, U.S.A. (operations launched in April 2003).
July
Unipres Europe, SAS established in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
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2003
January
UM Corporation, SAS established in Pas-de-Calais, France, as joint venture with OSL, and then converted into affiliate (operations launched in October 2003).
July
Unipres North America, Inc. established in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
(it has since shifted to White House, Tennessee). October
Unipres Guangzhou Corporation established in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China (operations launched in March 2005).
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2004
February
Stock listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
May
Head Office shifted to Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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2005
April
YSM Co., Ltd. and Unipres Hiroshima Co., Ltd. merged to create Unipres Mold Corporation.
September
Stock listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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2006
September
Tool & Die Plant goes into operation at Unipres Guangzhou Corporation.
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2008
October
Unipres India Private Limited established in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, as joint venture with Marubeni Corporation (operations launched in June 2010).
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2009
July
Unipres (Thailand) Co., Ltd. established in Bangkok, Thailand.
Unipres North America, Inc. shifted from Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. to Portland, Tennessee.
October
Unipres Precision Guangzhou Corporation established in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, as joint venture with Unipres Guangzhou Corporation (operations launched in March 2011).
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2010
June
Unipres Kyushu Corporation converted into wholly-owned subsidiary through additional acquisition of shares from Mitsuike Corporation.
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2011
April
Unipres R & D Co., Ltd. established in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
July
PT. Unipres Indonesia established in Purwakarta, West Java, Indonesia (operations launched in May 2012).
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2012
February
Unipres (China) Corporation established in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China.
May
Unipres Zhengzhou Corporation established in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China (operations launched in August 2013)
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2013
June
MA Automotive Brazil Ltd. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, converted into affiliate as a joint venture with Magnetto Automotive through share acquisition.
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2014
January
Unipres Russia LLC established in Saint-Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
Unipres Sunrise Corporation established in Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China, as a three-way joint venture involving Unipres (China) Corporation, Xiangyang Sunrise Machinery Co., Ltd., and Xiangyang Jisheng Machinery Co., Ltd. (operations launched in August 2015).
July
Transmission parts plant goes into operation at Unipres Mexicana, S.A. de C.V.
Unipres Alabama, Inc. established in Steele, Alabama, U.S.A.
October
Unipres Alabama, Inc. takes over sheet metal business from Yachiyo Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC., a U.S. subsidiary of Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.
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2017
April
Dongfeng Unipres Hot Stamping Corporation (now Guangzhou Dongshi Unipres Hot Stamping Corporation) established in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, as a joint venture with Unipres (China) Corporation and Dongfeng (Wuhan) Industrial Co., Ltd. (operations launched in May 2017).
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2019
June
UM Corporation, SAS converted into subsidiary through additional acquisition of shares from Magnetto Automotive.
August
Unipres Wuhan Corporation established in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China (operations launched in April 2021).
October
Metaltech Ltd. converted into affiliate through share acquisition.
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2022
April
Stock transferred from the First Section to the "Prime Market," a new segment of the Tokyo Stock Exchange resulting from its market restructuring.
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2024
April
Absorbed and merged UNIPRES R & D Co., Ltd.
Company names marked with an asterisk (*) are provisional translations.