Yamazaki Mazak Corporation
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Native name | ヤマザキマザック株式会社 |
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Type | Private KK |
Industry | Machinery |
Founded | Nagoya (1919 ) |
Founder | Sadakichi Yamazaki |
Headquarters | Ōguchi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
Key people | Yoshihiko Yamazaki (Senior Vice Chairman) Tomohisa Yamazaki (President) |
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Number of employees | 7,848 (group total, as of Jul 2016)[1] |
Website | Official website |
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Yamazaki Mazak Corporation (ヤマザキマザック株式会社, Yamazaki Mazakku Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese machine tool builder based in Oguchi, Japan.[3] In the United States, Russia[4] and UK it is known as Mazak.
History[]
The company was founded in 1919 in Nagoya by Sadakichi Yamazaki as a small company making pots and pans.[5] During the 1920s it progressed through mat-making machinery to woodworking machinery to metalworking machine tools, especially lathes.[6] The company was part of Japan's industrial buildup before and during World War II, then, like the rest of Japanese industry, was humbled by the war's outcome.
During the 1950s and 1960s, under the founder's sons, Yamazaki revived, and during the 1960s it established itself as an exporter to the American market.[7] During the 1970s and 1980s it established a larger onshore presence in the USA, including machine tool-building operations,[8] and since then it has become one of the most important companies in that market and the global machine tool market.
In 1980s, the European manufacturing plant was established in Worcester, U.K., and a worldwide sales and customer support network was created. Currently, the corporation runs 10 factories worldwide - 5 in Japan, 2 in China, 1 in Singapore, 1 in the USA, 1 in the UK.
Gallery[]
Mazak Art Plaza and the Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art in Nagoya
Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art
Mazak Technology Center in Katowice, Poland
Mazak engines in the machinery company in Armavir, Russia.
References[]
- ^ "About Mazak".
- ^ "About Mazak". Yamazaki Mazak Corporation. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ^ "Mazak in Russia". DMLieferant. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
- ^ Holland 1989, p. 109 .
- ^ Holland 1989, pp. 109–110 .
- ^ Holland 1989, pp. 119–125 .
- ^ Holland 1989, pp. 238, 267–268 .
Bibliography[]
- Holland, Max (1989), When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 978-0-87584-208-0, OCLC 246343673.
External links[]
- Manufacturing companies of Japan
- Industrial machine manufacturers
- Machine tool builders
- Multinational companies headquartered in Japan
- Companies based in Aichi Prefecture
- Japanese brands
- Manufacturing companies established in 1919
- Japanese companies established in 1919
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