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June 1946 Tokyu Kogyo Co., Ltd. Yokohama Works begins operations in what is now Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, with the primary focus on restoring war-damaged trains for Tokyu Corporation.
August 1948 Tokyu Yokohama Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is established at the same location (capital: 25 million yen).
September 1950 Concluded a contract with the US military YED to maintain various trailers, and carried out maintenance of 3,000 trailers and construction machinery.
February 1953 Changed company name to Tokyu Car Corporation
July 1959 Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
June 1964 Merged with Toho Special Purpose Vehicle Industry Co., Ltd. and established the Omiya Plant (later renamed "Saitama Factory").
February 1968 Listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange
March 1968 The company merged with Teikoku Sharyo Kogyo Co., Ltd. to form the Osaka Factory (later renamed "Osaka Plant"). This established a production and sales system with railway car and special-purpose automobile factories on both the east and west sides.
January 1969 Mass production of marine containers begins at the head office factory.
June 1970 Osaka Factory container factory completed
November 1972 Production reaches 50,000 marine containers, making us the world's largest producer of steel containers (in 1977, annual production reaches 100,000).
August 1993 “WILL21” campaign started
June 1998 Special Purpouse Vehicle Division obtains ISO9001 certification
September 1998 Launches unmanned electric carrier for transporting heavy cargo.
October 1999 Gunma Factory completed (Saitama Factory closed)
September 2002 The company's shares were delisted from the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges.
October 2002 Becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyu Corporation
October 2003 Wakayama Factory completed (Osaka Factory closed)
April 2010 Established Tokyu Car Tokuso Co., Ltd. (established as a new incorporation split from Tokyu Car Manufacturing Co., Ltd.)The site used by our company within the Yokohama Plant of Tokyu Sharyo Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was renamed the "Yokohama Plant".
April 2012 The company name was changed when it became a subsidiary of ShinMaywa Industries Co., Ltd.
March 2015 Yokohama factory closed
March 2016 Total trailer production reaches 100,000 units.