History

Mar, 1984

Akita Oil Seal Co., Ltd. was founded at Fujisato Town with a capital investment of 10 million yen.

Aug, 1984

Beginning of supplying our products of O-rings to Robert Bosch for parts of the fuel injection valves.

Feb, 1988

Foundation of Tokyo Sales office to extended the range of customer services

Jul, 1988

Company’s capital increased to 30 million yen to strengthen the infrastructure of the company.

Dec, 1988

Foundation of Kotooka Factory as our second production factory

Jul, 1990

Futatsui Factory was built for the further business expansion.

Oct, 1992

Foundation of Akita O-ring Co., Ltd for the further business expansion

May, 1996

Beginning of manufacturing rubber products for medical industry

Jul, 1998

Akita O-ring Co., Ltd was rebuilded and Kotooka Factory was united to Akita O-ring Co., Ltd to make the companies total production lines efficiently functioned, and integrate all the management systems.

Aug, 1999

Head Office and Futatsui Factory acquired the certificate of ISO 9002:1994.

Jul, 2000

Company’s capital increased to 60 million yen.

Oct, 2001

Purchase of the building located in Kuramae, Tokyo to transfer the location of the Tokyo Sales Office.

Aug, 2002

Head Office and Futatsui Factory renewed ISO certificate to the updated version of ISO 9001: 2000. In addition to that, Tokyo Sales Office also acquired ISO 9001:2000 as a supplemental institution for the first time.

Oct, 2003

Installing of advanced production control system (ASKS) to make efficient the order-and-receipt procedure, and systematize the whole process of the factory by intranet.

Sep, 2004

 Operation of Fujisato Factory stopped for the integration of the production system and all its functions were taken over by Futatsui Factory.

Oct, 2004

Installing 24 units of 200 tons of vaccum molding machines in Akita O-ring Co., Ltd

Sep, 2005

Installing of automatic inspection machines for the further quality assurance and the improvement of inspection process

Oct, 2005

Start of planning the foundation of Akita Oil Seal VITETNAM Co., Ltd. (100% subsidiary company) in Haiphong of Vietnam as our first production factory outside of Japan to adapt to the globalized market trend.

Jan, 2006

The construction of Vietnam Factory started in Nomura Haiphong Industrial Zone in Haiphong.

Jul, 2006

Akita Oil Seal Vietnam Co., Ltd. started its operation and production.

Jun, 2007

 Installing of Barrel type of deflashing equipment in Vietnam Factory

Oct, 2008

Akita Oil Seal Co., Ltd, Akita O-ring, and Tokyo Sales Office acquired the certificate of ISO/TS 16949:2002

Nov, 2009

 Set up of the Research Room for the further R&D

Feb, 2010

Company’s capital increased to 80 million yen.。

Apr, 2011

Akita Oil Seal Co., Ltd merged with Akita O-ring Co., Ltd and increase the capital amount to 95.5 million.