History of Matsuura
| Year | Events |
|---|---|
| 1935 | The Matsuura factory was first founded in Fukui city. Production and distribution of lathes began. |
| 1957 | Production and distribution of milling machines began. |
| 1960 | The Matsuura Machinery Corporation was established. |
| 1961 | Production and distribution of electric program-automatically-controlled milling machines began. |
| 1964 | Production and distribution of automatic numerically controlled milling machines began. |
| 1968 | The head office of the Matsuura Machinery Corporation was moved to the present address. |
| 1972 | Production and distribution of automatic numerically controlled drilling machines began. |
| 1974 | Production and distribution of vertical machining centers began. |
| 1975 | The vertical machining centers were first exported to U.S.A. |
| 1981 | Production and distribution of ultra high-speed machining centers began. Production and distribution of twin-spindle vertical machining centers began. |
| 1983 | Production and distribution of horizontal machining centers began. |
| 1985 | The Takefu Factory (IMN Co., Ltd.) was opened. |
| 1993 | The total number of shipped machining centers reached 10,000. |
| 1994 | The ISO 9001 certification (Quality Management System) was obtained. |
| 1998 | The ISO 14001 certification (Environment Management System) was obtained. |
| 1999 | Production and distribution of ultra high-speed precision vertical machining centers with the linear motors on all axes began. |
| 2000 | The OHSAS 18001 certification (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) was obtained. |
| 2001 | The total number of shipped machining centers reached 15,000. |
| 2002 | The MMTS Corporation was established in U.S.A. Development of the metal laser sintering hybrid milling machine began. |
| 2003 | Production and distribution of metal laser sintering hybrid-milling machines began. "Best Technical Award" is granted to the SB-I model by the "Association to recognize historic valuable machine in Japan" in the 5th meeting. |
| 2004 | The metal laser sintering hybrid milling machine 'M-PHOTON 25C' won the 33rd Japan Industrial Technology Grand Prize and the prize from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. |
| 2005 | 5-Axis Vertical Machining Center "MAM72-63V" won the 35th "Machine Design Award". |
| 2006 | Nominated for “The best 300 small & medium manufacturing enterprise” who leads Japanese industry, by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. 5-Axis Multi-Tasking Machining Center "CUBLEX-25" won the 36th "Machine Design Award". |
| 2007 | Announcement of MAXIA as a new common product logo. "LUMEX Avance-25" won the 37th "Machine Design Award". |
| 2008 | Horizontal Machining Centers "H.Plus-300" won the 38th "Machine Design Award". |
| 2009 | Developing 5-Axis Multi-Tasking Machining Center "CUBLEX-63". |
| 2010 | Developing 5-Axis Vertical Machining Center "MX-520". Developing 5-Axis Horizontal Machining Center "MAM72-100H". |
| 2011 | 4 Linear Motor Series were released. High-grade Linear Motor Machine "LX-160" |
