Date | Event |
March 1975 | Founder Yuji Morikubo,current honorary chairman,established Kamba Shokai Co., Ltd. in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. |
August 1977 | Changed company name to PUNCH INDUSTRY CO., LTD. |
August 1982 | Succeeded in mass production of high-speed steel ejector pins for plastic molds. |
November 1983 | Established and started operations at Kitakami Plant in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture. Established a mass-production system for mold components. |
December 1983 | Began nationwide sales of mold components. |
May 1987 | Integrated the Production Division into Kitakami Plant. |
May 1989 | Established a group company called MIYAKO PUNCH INDUSTRY CO., LTD. (present Miyako Plant) in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture. |
October 1990 | Established PUNCH INDUSTRY (DALIAN) CO., LTD. in Dalian, Liaoning province, China and started the production of mold components in China. |
April 1991 | Published a general catalog of plastic mold components and a general catalog of press die components. |
December 1995 | Established and started operations at a plant in Dalian Wafangdian, Liaoning province, China, to increase the production capacity of PUNCH INDUSTRY (DALIAN) CO., LTD. |
October 1996 | Established and started operations at Chiba Plant in Iioka town, Chiba Prefecture. |
July 1999 | PUNCH INDUSTRY (DALIAN) CO., LTD. acquired ISO 9002 certification. |
December 2001 | Chiba Plant relocated to Asahi City, Chiba Prefecture. |
May 2002 | Established Tokyo Logistics Center in Ota-ku, Tokyo, to improve physical distribution services. |
August 2002 | PUNCH INDUSTRY (DALIAN) CO., LTD. established a sales office in Dongguan. |
October 2003 | Plant in Dalian Wafangdian, Liaoning province, China spun off and PUNCH INDUSTRY (WAFANGDIAN) CO., LTD. established. |
November 2003 | PUNCH INDUSTRY (DALIAN) CO., LTD. established a sales office in Shanghai. |
December 2003 | Established PUNCH INDUSTRY (WUXI) CO., LTD. in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China. |
May 2004 | Established PUNCH INDUSTRY (DONGGUAN) CO., LTD. in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China. |
July 2004 | Head office relocated from Shinagawa-ku to Minato-ku. |
March 2006 | Acquired all shares of PINTEC CORPORATION and made it a group company. |
November 2006 | Established PUNCH INDUSTRY DALIAN TAMA SPRING CO., LTD. in Dalian, Liaoning province, China. |
March 2008 | Absorbed the subsidiary MIYAKO PUNCH INDUSTRY CO., LTD. and started operations as Miyako Plant. |
September 2010 | Established PUNCH INDUSTRY INDIA PVT. LTD. in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. |
January 2011 | Established and started operations at Hyogo Plant in Kasai City, Hyogo Prefecture. |
June 2011 | Company name changed from PUNCH INDUSTRY DALIAN TAMA SPRING CO., LTD. to Punch Spring (Dalian) Co., Ltd. |
September 2011 | Chiba Plant closed. |
December 2011 | PUNCH INDUSTRY INDIA PVT. LTD. began sales. |
August 2012 | Formed Capital and Business Alliance with PANTHER PRECISION TOOLS SDN. BHD. in Malaysia. |
December 2012 | Listed stocks on the Second Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange. Tokyo Logistics Center relocated from Ota-ku, Tokyo to Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. |
March 2013 | Established production and logistics base in Chongqing, China. |
August 2013 | PANTHER PRECISION TOOLS SDN. BHD. became a group company of Punch Industry. |
November 2013 | Established a joint venture company, PT. PUNCH INDUSTRY INDONESIA, with PT Somagede Indonesia in Indonesia. |
January 2014 | Company name changed from PANTHER PRECISION TOOLS SDN. BHD. to PUNCH INDUSTRY MALAYSIA SDN. BHD. |
March 2014 | Listed stocks on the First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
January 2015 | PUNCH INDUSTRY (DALIAN) CO., LTD. acquired AS9100 certification. |
December 2015 | Established PUNCH INDUSTRY MANUFACTURING VIETNAM CO. LTD. in Vietnam. |
March 2016 | PUNCH INDUSTRY (DALIAN) CO., LTD. acquired Nadcap certification for "heat treating process". |
March 2016 | Head office relocated from Minato-ku to Shinagawa-ku. |
November 2016 | Established PUNCH INDUSTRY USA INC. in Illinois, USA. |
December 2016 | PUNCH INDUSTRY (DALIAN) CO., LTD. acquired the IRIS certificate in the field of single railway components. |
January 2018 | Expanded the factory of PUNCH INDUSTRY (Dalian) CO., LTD. |
April 2022 | Moved to the Prime Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
October 2022 | Acquired all shares of ASCE CO., LTD. and made it a group company. |
October 2023 | Moved to the Standard Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange. |