{"id":898,"date":"2020-05-28T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=898"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:52:56","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/en\/company\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Company History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Company History<\/h1>\r\n\r\n
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April 1930<\/th>\r\n Mr. Inokichi Kato, who was our first president, founded the spring factory in 1 Sakai, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
November 1946<\/th>\r\n Incorporated as KATO SPRING WORKS CO., LTD. and founded the head factory in Sekimachi, Nerima-ku, Tokyo.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
December 1963<\/th>\r\n Moved the head factory to 1-1-3 Tabata, Kita-ku. (new factory: 2,224m2)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
May 1964<\/th>\r\n Listed on Second section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
May 1971<\/th>\r\n Established KATO SPRING OF CALIFORNIA,INC. (the present Advanex Americas,Inc.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
November 1976<\/th>\r\n Established the head factory in Kashiwazaki, Niigata.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
January 1978<\/th>\r\n Established KATO SPRING (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (the present Advanex (Singapore) Pte.Ltd.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
March 1986<\/th>\r\n Established a new factory in Onomachi, Fukushima. (Closed in 6\/2009)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
September 1988<\/th>\r\n Established KATO PRECISION (U.K.) LIMITED<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
October 1993<\/th>\r\n Purchased SENIOR ENTEX LTD and changes its name to KATO-ENTEX LIMITED<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
August 1994<\/th>\r\n Established KATO PRECISION (HONG KONG) LIMITED (the present Advanex (Hong Kong) Ltd.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n\r\n
July 1996<\/th>\r\n Moved the Headquarter to 6-1-1 Tabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
July 1996<\/th>\r\n Established Strawberry Corporation<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
January 1998<\/th>\r\n Established KATO SPRING (THAILAND) LTD. (the present Advanex (Thailand) Ltd.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
January 2001<\/th>\r\n Established KATO SPRING (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD. (the present Advanex (Shanghai) Inc.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
July 2001<\/th>\r\n Changed the corporate name to ADVANEX INC.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
October 2001<\/th>\r\n Strawberry Corporation was listed on JASDAQ. (Delisted in 10\/2011)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
December 2002<\/th>\r\n Established ADVANEX PRECISION COMPONENTS (DONGGUAN) CO., LTD. (the present Advanex (Dongguan) Inc.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
January 2003<\/th>\r\n Established ADVANEX PRECISION COMPONENTS (DALIAN) CO., LTD. (the present Advanex (Dalian) Inc.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
March 2004<\/th>\r\n Listed on first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
June, 2006<\/th>\r\n Established KATO SPRING (VIETNAM) LTD. (the present Advanex (Vietnam) Ltd.)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
October 2007<\/th>\r\n Acquired Daiichi Kasei Holdings Co., Ltd. (100%)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
October 2008<\/th>\r\n Established a new factory in Nakatsu, Oita.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
May 2009<\/th>\r\n Established a new factory in Minamitsugaru, Aomori.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
October 2010<\/th>\r\n KATO PRECISION (U.K.) LIMITED and KATO-ENTEX LIMITED merged and changed to Advanex Europe Ltd.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
February 2012<\/th>\r\n Strawberry Corporation changed its name to Advanex Motion Design Inc.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
January 2013<\/th>\r\n The establishment of a subsidiary in Changzhou<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
April 2014<\/th>\r\n Funabashi Electronics Co.,Ltd. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanex Inc.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Mar 2015<\/th>\r\n Advanex Inc. transferred 100% of its stock in Daiichi Kasei Holdings Co., Ltd., to Abico Group of Taiwan<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Mar 2015<\/th>\r\n Established factories in Chiba and Miyagi<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Jan 2016<\/th>\r\n Established a new factory in Saitama<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Feb 2016<\/th>\r\n Established Advanex Deutschland GmbH.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Oct 2016<\/th>\r\n Acquired Electronic Stamping Corporation\u2019s Business<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Dec 2016<\/th>\r\n Acquired PT. Yamakou Indonesia.(100%)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Sep 2017<\/th>\r\n Established Advanex (India) Private Limited.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Nov 2017<\/th>\r\n Established Advanex Czech Republic s.r.o.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Oct 2018<\/th>\r\n Established Advanex de Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n <\/table>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Company History April 1930 Mr. Inokichi Kato, who was our first president, founded the spring factory in 1 Sakai, Edogawa-ku, Tokyo. November 1946 Incorporated as KATO SPRING WORKS CO., LTD. and founded the head factory in Sekimachi, Nerima-ku, Tokyo. December 1963 Moved the head factory to 1-1-3 Tabata, Kita-ku. (new factory: 2,224m2) May 1964 Listed […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-company-common.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=249","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","tag-company_en","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advanex.co.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}