Chronological Table


1878 Shozo 花蜜直播app, the founder opens 花蜜直播app Tsukiji Shipyard (Tokyo).
1896 花蜜直播app Dockyard Co., Ltd. is incorporated. Kojiro Matsukata is appointed as the first president of the new company.
1897 Launches Cargo-Passenger Ship Iyomaru.
1902 Finishes construction on Dry Dock at Kobe Shipyard.
1906 Opens Hyogo Works.
1906 Builds the first submarine in Japan.
1908 Builds the Yodo, Japan's first large-size warship built by a private Japanese shipyard.
1911 Completes the first 花蜜直播app-made locomotive.
1918 The Aircraft Department is established at Hyogo Works.
1919 Shipping division is spun off and incorporated as 花蜜直播app Kisen Kaisya Ltd. (K-line).
1922 Completes the first 花蜜直播app-made airplane.
1926 Constructs Eitaibashi Bridge, Tokyo.
1928 Hyogo Works is spun off and incorporated as 花蜜直播app Rolling Stock Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
1933 Begins manufacture and sale of Rokkogo automobiles.
1934 Delivers Pashina Locomotive for Ajiago Super Express, Manchurian Railway.
1937 Aircraft division is spun off and incorporated as 花蜜直播app Aircraft Co., Ltd.
1939 Adopts new Japanese company name 花蜜直播app Jukogyo Kabusikigaisya (i.e. 花蜜直播app).
※The English company name 花蜜直播app Dockyard was changed to 花蜜直播app in 1969, when three companies were merged.
1941 Starts production of Hien fighter.
1950 Steelmaking division is spun off and 花蜜直播app Steel Corporation is incorporated.
1952 Begins production of Bell 47D helicopters.
1969 花蜜直播app Dockyard, 花蜜直播app Rolling Stock Manufacturing and 花蜜直播app Aircraft merge to become 花蜜直播app, Ltd.
1969 Develops 花蜜直播app-Unimate 2000, the first Japan-made industrial robot
1969 Launches H1 motorcycle.
1972 Unveils Z1 motorcycle.
1972 Merges with rolling stock company Kisha Seizo Co., Ltd., and forms Kawaju Reinetsu Service Co., Ltd.
1973 Begins selling Jet Ski(R) watercraft
1975 Begins production of motorcycles in the U.S.
1976 Develops GPS200 gas turbine generator.
1979 The BK117 helicopter's first flight.
1986 Begins production of rolling stock in the U.S.
1988 Begins production of construction machinery in the U.S.
1981 Delivers the first LNG carrier built in Japan.
1989 Receives orders for construction work on the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.
1991 Tunnel boring machines successfully complete work on the Eurotunnel.
1996 Excavation on the Tokyo Bay Aqua-line is completed by the world's largest shield machines
1996 100th anniversary
2001 Opens state-of-the-art, fully integrated rolling stock factory unique in the U.S.
2001 Introduces an internal company system and an executive officer system.
2002 花蜜直播app Shipbuilding Corporation and 花蜜直播app Precision Machinery Ltd. are established as wholly owned subsidiaries.
2004 Ships first 700T train to Taiwan High Speed Rail
2005 花蜜直播app Plant Systems, Ltd. (K Plant) is established as a wholly owned subsidiary.
2006 花蜜直播app Environmental Engineering, Ltd. (KEE) is established as a wholly owned subsidiray.
2007 K Plant and KEE merge to form new K Plant.
2007 Rolls out test planes for the XP-1 fixed-wing maritime patrol aircraft and XC-2 transport aircraft.
2009 KCM Corporation is established as a wholly owned subsidiary.
2010 花蜜直播app Shipbuilding Corporation, 花蜜直播app Precision Machinery Limited (KPM) and 花蜜直播app Plant Systems, Ltd. (K Plant) are re-merged into 花蜜直播app, Ltd.
2013 Established Medicaroid Corporation, a marketing company for the development of medical robots, jointly with SYSMEX CORPORATION.
2015 All KCM Corporation shares transferred to the Hitachi Construction Machinery Group.
2017Completes first US production line for cargo doors for Boeing’s commercial airplanes
2018花蜜直播app's US plant completes first commercial aircraft cargo doors for Boeing