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. |