Jun. 1962 |
Established with 1 million yen as
capital. Started as Shinetsu Denshi
Sangyo Co., Ltd. in Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture for
development, manufacturing and sales of automatic control
units. |
Jun. 1964 |
Added 1 million yen to capital, changing the company
name to HARMO Denki
Co., Ltd. and developing and selling automatic control
units mainly for the textile industry. |
Sep. 1969 |
Developed and sold 3 models of ATOM,
a take-out robot for plastic molded parts, and 3 models
of fall-check equipment. |
Apr. 1972 |
Changed the company name to HARMO Co., Ltd. |
Mar. 1977 |
Changed the location of the head
office from Okaya to Adachi in Tokyo. |
Dec. 1981 |
Built Ina Factory in Nagano for volume production of
robots. |
Jul. 1983 |
HARMO M.A.C. Co., Ltd, established
as an independent body of the auxiliary molding equipment
division. |
Feb. 1986 |
HARMO T.E.C. (R&D) Co., Ltd., established. |
Apr. 1987 |
Introduced computer systems in management
operations. |
Aug. 1988 |
Merged HARMO M.A.C. Co., Ltd. with the capital of 110
million yen. |
Apr. 1990 |
HARMO Museum, established. |
Mar. 1991 |
Built a company dormitory in Ina area, Nagano. |
Mar. 1992 |
Built and moved into a new head office
and factory in Kamiina-gun, Nagano. |
Nov. 1994 |
Signed the contract with Nihon Denso Co., Ltd (currently
DENSO Co., Ltd.) to jointly develop the Servo Robots. |
Aug. 1995 |
Signed original equipment manufacturing
contract with Nihon Denso Co., Ltd. (currently DENSO Co.,
Ltd.) |
Jun. 1996 |
Transferred the registered location of head office
from Adachi Ward in Tokyo to Minami-minowa in Kamiina-gun,
Nagano. |
Sep. 1996 |
Acquired ISO9001 (International Standards
for quality management) certification. |
Oct. 1997 |
Hideaki Hama, appointed as the president. |
Jul. 1999 |
Increased the capital to 220 million
yen. |
Oct. 2002 |
Merged HARMO T.E.C. (R&D) Co., Ltd., and set the
capital at 290.5 million yen. |