History
| 1940 Established |
Eiyoshi Kawashima began the production of Agricultural machine. |
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| 1943 | Began the production of Grain-threshing machine |
| 1947 | Founded as KAWASHIMA TEKKOSHO Co.,Ltd. Eiyoshi Kawashima assumed the President. Began the production of Vertical pump |
| 1948 | Began the production of Rice husker. |
| 1953 | Began the production of Vertical-line Rice sorter. |
| 1963 | Moved the Head office to 4290 Fujioka, Fujioka-town, Tochigi-city, Tochigi prefecture. |
| 1973 | Began the production of New grader (Horizontal Rice sorter). |
| 1976 | Began the production of Automatic rice/wheat weighing machine for farmers and Rice combi. |
| 1978 | Began the production of Raising seedling machine (Tiger Hatomunne Sprouting Machine) |
| 1979 | Eiichi Kawashima assumed the President. |
| 1981 | Developed and Released the industry’s first Digital Rice/Wheat weighing machine. |
| 1983 | Began the production of “Packmate” – combination of sorting and weighing machine. |
| 1984 | Registered business of Manufacturing for weighing machine |
| 1987 | Changed the Company’s name to TIGER KAWASHIMA Co.,Ltd. |
| 1988 | New office building was complete. |
| 1990 | Began the production of Automatic sorting/weighing machine “Super-clean”. |
| 1993 | Began the production of Nursery Box Washer “Sen-chan” |
| 1996 | Began the production of Stone Extracting machine (Sekitori-kun). |
| 1999 | Eiichi Kawashima assumed the Chairman. Akimitsu Kawashima assumed the President. Began the production of Hot water disinfector (Yumekoubou). |
| 2000 | Began the production of Elevator machine for Rice bag, (Lift-up Rakuda-kun). |
| 2004 | Began the production of Vegetable preparation machine (Negi kirubee, Green Onion cutting machine)・(Negi kirubee, Green onion peeling machine)・(Chinese leek washing machine). Increased the capital to 100 million yen. |
| 2005 | Began the production of Awn removal and awn sorting machine (Datsubo-kun). Began the production of Hot water disinfector for Japanese chestnut. |
| 2006 | Began the production of mini rice sorter, (Chibimate). |
| 2007 | Tiger Kawashima Co.,Ltd was selected as one of the 110 of “Active and Intellectual property company” in 2007 by the Japan patent office. Tiger Kawashima Co.,Ltd was selected as one of the 300 of “Japan’s Vibrant Monozukuri (Manufacturing) SMEs”, 2007 by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. |
| 2008 | Verified as a “Tochigi prefecture Frontier company” by Tochigi prefectural government. Began the production of Hot disinfector for Konyac seed (Konyac-koubou). The model of Packmate NR series changed to CR series. |
| 2009 | Became an official sponsor of “Utsunomiya Blitzen” which is a Japan’s first Professional and community-based bicycle racing team. Received the Tochigi prefecture general manager award for Packmate at the Tochigi prefecture invention exhibition. The Development of Konjac workshop conducted in Ministry of Agriculture of Japan won a “Japan association for techno-innovation in Agriculture chief director award”. |
| 2010 | Received a “Director of General of Patent office award”. Received the “Encouraging award of Chairman of Japan Inst. of Invention and Innovation” for Stone Extracting machine (Sekitori-kun). The vegetable preparation machine, Washing small Green onion (Konegi-kirara) was developed. Received the “Tochigi prefectural governor award” at Tochigi prefecture Invention exhibition for Sprouting machine. |
| 2012 | Moved the head office to 2376 Momiya, Itakura town, Oura county, Gunma prefecture. Began the production of Automatic grain weighing machine (e-scale). |
| 2013 | Achieved to sell the total 20 thousands of Packmate for 30 years. Participated in FOOMA Japan Exhibition for the first time. Entered the Food industry and released Food washing machine (TWS-1300) and Food washing machine of Hot water (STA-600). Released Large sized and horizontal type of rice sorting machine (Grader Matrix-MX-30/60), Dust collector (Clean combi-CW-400), and Relay Lift machine (T-3000M/Y4000M). Released a battery type Lift (Rakuda- kunWalker) LUB-208. |
| 2014 | Released Automatic grain weighing machine (Fleconmate) that enables to use inside of workshop [within a height of 3.0m]. TIGER KAWASHIMA THAILAND CO.,LTD established. |
| 2015 | Released Hot water disinfection for general-purpose (Yumekoubou Multi type) that is possible to disinfect the seed of strawberry, Japanese scallion, Japanese chestnut, and so on. |
| 2016 | Released merchandise related to Fleconmate such as ‘30kg weighing machine’ and ‘Fleconmate without weighing machine (Fle-combi). Released Spin drier of seed rice (Dassui-kun). |
| 2017 | Released Vegetable preparation machine, Cutting leaf of Green onion machine (Soroenbee). |
