History

TKR Group History

1954

Started operation by mainly sheet metal press processing  in Ota Ward, Tokyo. Established Takara Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

1964

Started manufacturing and sales of slide switches and rotary switches.

1967

Developed eight track tape and home stereo, and started manufacturing them.

1968

Press, Switch, Car audio… 3 divisions established.

1970

Takara Electronic Industry Co., Ltd. established (Ibaraki Prefecture).

1972

Tohoku Takara Seisakusho Co., Ltd. established (Iwate Prefecture).

1973

Developed car audio system with AM / FM, starded manufacturing  and sales.

1974

Started production of switches and car audio systems in Taiwan.
Taiwan Takara Co., Ltd. established in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.

1975

Developed lever switches for radio cassette recorders and audio systems.

1978

Singapore Takara Co. Ltd. established.

1981

Started substrate packaging processing, developed keyboardswitches.

Iwate TKR Co., Ltd. established (Iwate Prefecture).

1986

Started production of operation panel for copy machine.

Techno Minori Co., Ltd. established (Ibaraki Prefecture).

1988

Developed the world’s smallest switch, starting manufacturing and selling.

TKR Malaysia Co., Ltd. established.

1991

Company name changed to “TKR Co., Ltd.”

TKR Hong Kong was established and commenced contracted processing for China.

1994

Started production of switches in China.

Started operation of China Factory (Dongguan City, Guangdong province).

1996

Established TKR PRECISION (Malasya) SDN. BHD.

2000

Produced 300,000 units per month of car stereo in TKR MANUFACTURING (M).

2001

Acquired QS9000 certification.

Started production of TKR Malaysia brand car stereo.

2010

Acquired full ownership of China factory and renamed as TKR

Huanan Electronics (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.

2011

Business integration with Nippon Manufacturing Service Co., Ltd.

2013

Acquired power supply, transformer, turner, TV board business

from Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd. and started operation.

2013

TKR Mizusawa Plant Co., Ltd. established.

2014

Acquired general power supply business from Panasonic
Corporation - Started operations as Power Supply Technology Co., Ltd.

2016

TKR Manufacturing Philippines Inc. established.

TKR Manufacturing Japan Co., Ltd. established.

2017

nms Holdings, Corporation established.

2019

Acquired functions and businesses of Sony Service and Operations of America (hereinafter “SSOA”), and operation  division of Sony Electronics Inc., and Sony Nuevo Laredo S.A. de C.V., and SSOA’s production base in Mexico, and stared business as TKR USA Inc. and TKR de Mexico S.A. de C.V.