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.