NHK Precision history

In 1940 NHK opened a manufacturing plant and established its headquarters in Yokohama.

Beginning in 1942, Yokohama, site of NHK's original plant and home office, was hit hard by United States air strikes.

NHK Sales Co., Ltd. was established on May 14, 1959.

In 1961 NHK opened a liaison office in the United States to bolster its North American marketing efforts.

Since 1962, when polyurethane resins were first developed, NHK had been developing and marketing products made of hard and soft urethane, which are among the chemical products it manufactures at the Komagane plant.

NHK opened spring-production plants in Hiroshima in 1964, in Ohta in 1969, and in Atsugi in 1970. It obtained a technical license in 1970 from Donald Arthur Girard, a United States company, to manufacture pipe clamps, and the following year, NHK granted a technical license to Delta Motors in the Philippines to manufacture automotive seating.

In 1973 NHK constructed its Shiga plant, for the manufacture of springs, torsion bars, and stabilizers and also established the joint venture NHK Gasket (Thailand) Company.

In 1981 NHK announced a new five-year plan known as Vision 80 that was designed to promote diversification and to move the company away from its heavy reliance on the volatile automobile market.

In 1982 NHK granted a technical license to P.T. Muaratewe Spring in Indonesia to manufacture suspension springs.

The company built a second plant in Ina to manufacture wire springs in 1983.

In 1984 the company granted technical licenses to Jamna Auto Industries Pvt.

By 1985 this figure grew to ¥13 trillion.

GM agreed to provide the design and technology to NHK. The venture, which began operation in a plant near Yokohama in the fall of 1986, planned to sell its parts to vehicle manufacturers in Japan and other Asian countries.

NHK also granted technical licenses to two Taiwanese firms in 1987, to Champion Engineering Company to produce its multistory parking system and to Tsuang Hine Company for seat production.