{"id":1086,"date":"2023-05-09T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T00:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.echo-mf.jp\/?page_id=1086"},"modified":"2025-05-04T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T00:23:13","slug":"company-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.echo-mf.jp\/en\/company-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Comany History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1957<\/th>\n Began to deal with Japan Oil Seal Industrial Co., Ltd. as a private enterprise.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Press processing of oil seal metal case.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1959<\/th>\n Established Nisshin Production, Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1967<\/th>\n Established Kawamata Industrial Co., Ltd. in Fukushima as a related company.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
\u30fbPress processing of oil seal metal case.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1978<\/th>\n Began to deal with the Ibaragi factory of Japan Mektron Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Established Echo Electricity Co., Ltd. in Fukushima Pref.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
\u30fbProduction of cassette mechanism as a cooperation factory of Alps Electricity Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1982<\/th>\n Began to deal with the South Ibaragi factory of Japan Mektron Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Busbar cutting for power source\/Assembling.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1983<\/th>\n Commenced business dealings with Sumitomo 3M Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Commenced processing of damping viscoelastic materials.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1986<\/th>\n Obtained N1-V (qualification for acceptance without inspection) from Delco Electric Company (USA) as Echo Electricity Co., Ltd. within the Alpine Group.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1991<\/th>\n Commenced business dealings as Echo Electricity Co., Ltd. with the Commercial Consumer Manufacturing Management Division at Sumitomo 3M Ltd., Sagamihara Plant.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Office product manufacturing.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1992<\/th>\n In October, Nisshin Manufacturing Co., Ltd. changed its organizational structure and name from Nisshin Seisakusho Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1997<\/th>\n At Kawamata Factory, established press-processing technology for new high-strength steel sheet products for automatic transmissions.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
1999<\/th>\n December: Began business with Iwate 3M Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2001<\/th>\n April 13: Obtained ISO 9002 certification.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Established press die technology for integrated metal and viscoelastic material blanking without adhesive overflow (joint patent with Sumitomo 3M Co., Ltd.).<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2002<\/th>\n Established thin-sheet magnesium alloy press-processing technology and concurrently built press machines for magnesium alloy: four 100-ton and four 50-ton presses.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2003<\/th>\n December: Transferred the group\u2019s oil-seal ring business, power-supply components for wiring, and die-making business by business transfer; adopted the current business focus.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2004<\/th>\n April 8: Merged related companies Kawamata Kogyo Co., Ltd. and Echo Denki Co., Ltd.; adopted the trade name Echo Denki Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
May 1: Obtained ISO 9001 certification.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
September: Began business with Yamagata 3M Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2005<\/th>\n April: Began business with 3M Healthcare Manufacturing Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2007<\/th>\n March: Completed prototype development of a PCB visual inspection machine (received a small and medium enterprise new business activity support subsidy from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2010<\/th>\n May 1: Obtained ISO 9001:2008 certification.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2011<\/th>\n May: Completed prototype of a cover-slip punching device used for passaging adherent cultured cells (received product prototyping support subsidy from Fukushima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Center).<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
June 27: Consolidated factory functions from Headquarters and Hirono Plant into Shirakawa City; renamed as Shirakawa Plant.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2012<\/th>\n January 18: Received manufacturing approval for general medical devices at Shirakawa Plant.
\n Approval number: 07BZ200039<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2014<\/th>\n March 19: Completed FDA registration for Strip Menisco Metric Tube (SMTube).<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
October 6: Obtained ISO 13485:2003 \/ EN ISO 13485:2012 certification.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
November: Obtained Singapore HSA medical regulatory approval.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2015<\/th>\n January: Developed and launched an appearance inspection machine for optical waveguide substrates.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
April: Obtained South Korea MFDS medical regulatory approval.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
May: Obtained patent for Strip Menisco Metric Tube (Patent No. 5,757,371).<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2020<\/th>\n October 7: Obtained ISO 14001:2015 certification.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
2021<\/th>\n
January: Completed registration with China NMPA.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
\n December: Registered the veterinary tear retention volume test device \u201ctear Q-Check\u201d with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.\n <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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