Yamazaki Machinery founded by Sadakichi Yamazaki. (Nagoya)

Began the manufacturing of straw mat weaving machinery.

Established a new factory in Atsuta, Nagoya

Began the manufacturing of machine tools including lathes and milling machines

Developed the first commercial machine tool

Developed the first motor-drive roll lathe

Established Yamazaki Machinery sales department

Teruyuki Yamazaki joined company

Began manufacturing of high-speed, high-precision lathes (LA,LB,LC and LD series)

Expanded to overseas market. Exported 3 LD series to Indonesia,

Oguchi plant began operation

Joined Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association

First export to U.S.A., 200 LE series lathes

President Sadakichi Yamazaki passed away

Teruyuki Yamazaki appointed president

Introduced Mazak brand and began production of Mazak lathes

Moved Headquarters to new plant in Oguchi

Established Yamazaki Machinery Corporation in New York, U.S.A.

Developed the first Mazak NC lathe, MTC series

Developed the first Mazak machining center, BTC No. 5

Established Dusseldorf, West Germany offices

Developed the first adaptive control lathe, MTC-1500R-AC, in Japan

Completed Yamazaki Machinery Corporation (current name Mazak Corporation)Facility in Greater Cincinnati

Established Yamazaki Machinery Europe N.V. in Leuven, Belgium

Developed the machining system YMS-30

Completed world headquarters Technical Center in Oguchi

Established Yamazaki Machinery U.K. Ltd.

Established Yamazaki Maquinas Herramientas S.A. de C.V., Mexico

Established Yamazaki Machinery Deutschland GmbH in Frankfurt

Developed world’s first conversational CNC system for lathes, the MAZATROL T1. Developed CNC lathe QUICK TURN 10

Yamazaki Machinery Corporation joined NMTBA (now AMT)

FMF began unmanned operation at Oguchi Plant

Established MAZAK SERVICE FRANCE S.A. near Paris

Changed company name to Mazak Corporation from Yamazaki Machinery Corporation

Yamazaki Mazak Deutschland GmbH headquarters moved to Goppingen

Developed multi-tasking machine, SLANT TURN 40N ATC Mill Center

Completed Minokamo plant

Developed unmanned operation system MAZATROL FMS

Developed CO2 laser processing machine, LASER PATH 4040

Changed company name to Yamazaki Mazak Corporation from Yamazaki Machinery Works, Ltd.

Yamazaki Machinery U.K. (now YAMAZAKI MAZAK U.K. LTD.) began full-scale operation of CIM plant in Europe

Established Tokyo Tsukuba Techno Hall

Yamazaki Machinery U.K. first exporting of CNC machine tools to Japan

Mazak Corporation received a All-American Top 10 Best Company Award

Yamazaki Machinery U.K. received a Best in the World Companies Award in the machine tool field from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science

"Queen's Award for Export Achievement" awarded to Yamazaki Mazak U.K. Ltd.

Completed YAMAZAKI MAZAK SINGAPORE PTE.,LTD. Plant YAMAZAKI MAZAK SINGAPORE PTE.,LTD.

Yamazaki Mazak U.K. Ltd. obtained ISO-9001 certifications

Developed automatic aluminum wheel manufacturing system, AW Factory 650

Developed PALLETECH MANUFACTURING SYSTEM which can be easily expanded

Mazak Corporation received a Philip B Crosby Award

Yamazaki Mazak headquarters and 4 manufacturing plants in Japan obtained ISO-9001 certifications

Developed FF-510, ultra-high speed horizontal machining center - 1G axes acceleration

Yamazaki Mazak Italia S.R.L. opened Technology Center

Yamazaki Mazak France S.A.S. opened Technology Center

Developed multi-tasking machine with Y-axis, INTEGREX 200Y

Mazak Sulamericana Ltda opened Technology Center

Opened Technology Center in Pune, India (Current Yamazaki Mazak India Pvt., Ltd.)

Yamazaki Mazak Netherland B.V. opened Technology Center

Completed Oguchi Plant Cyber Factory designed for networking of whole production facility

Developed MAZATROL FUSION 640 CNC system that fuses NC and PC

Established Shanghai Technology Center (Current YAMAZAKI MAZAK TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.)

Yamazaki Mazak Singapore Pte. Ltd. obtained ISO-9001 certifications .

80th anniversary of the establishment of Yamazaki Mazak Corporation “Touch the Future 100” was held.

Developed multi-face 5-axis machine VARIAXIS 200

Completed Ningxia Little Giant Machine Tool., Ltd. Cyber Factory in China

The founder of Yamazaki Mazak, Sadakichi Yamazaki, was honored by being included in the American Machinist's Hall of Innovators as a founder of the world-renowned company and as an innovative person of the 1910~1920.

Established Yamazaki Mazak Taiwan Corp., Taiwan Technology Center

Teruyuki Yamazaki was appointed Chairman and CEO

Yoshihiko Yamazaki was appointed Senior Vice Chairman

Tomohisa Yamazaki was appointed President

Developed advanced multi-tasking machine INTEGREX e series

Yamazaki Mazak headquarters and 4 manufacturing plants in Japan obtained ISO-14000 certification

Developed new generation, world-class machine tools produced worldwide, NEXUS series

Established Yamazaki Mazak Korea Co., Ltd., Korea Technology Center

Developed UN-600V and UN-600H designed for high productivity with extremely compact floor space requirements

Established Yamazaki Mazak Central Europe s.r.o in Czech

Introduced MAZACARE support system in the Japanese market

Developed new generation CNC system, MAZATROL MATRIX

Equipped all INTEGREX 200-IV models with intelligent functions

Established World Technology Center in Minokamo, Japan

Completed Minokamo Plant 2

Queen's Award for Export Achievement awarded to Yamazaki Mazak U.K. Ltd.

Developed compact multi-tasking machine, INTEGREX i-150

Yamazaki Mazak U.K. Ltd. developed VTC 800/30SR

Completed the underground factory of Yamazaki Mazak Optonics Corporation

Completed Cyber Spindle Factory and World Parts Center at Minokamo 2

Completed Thailand Technology Center. (Current MAZAK (THAILAND) CO., LTD.)

Completed World R&D Center (World Research and Development Center)

Established large-scale support base (European Technology Center) in U.K.

Opened The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art

Opened Guangzhou Technology Center in China

Opened Dalian Technology Center in China

New focus on ergonomics for all products

Relocated and expanded India Technology Center

Relocated and expanded Houston (Southwest) Technology Center

Chairman and CEO Teruyuki Yamazaki passed away

Opened Leipzig Technology Center in Germany

Relocated and expanded Duesseldorf Technology Center

Opened Poland Technology Center

Opened Czech Technology Center

Completed Yamazaki Mazak Machine Tool (Liaoning) Co., Ltd. Plant

Relocated and expanded Korea Technology Center

His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, visited Yamazaki Mazak's European headquarters

Relocated and expanded Brazil Technology Center

Opened Technical Centers in Indonesia and Vietnam

Expanded Yamazaki Mazak Singapore Pte., Ltd. Cyber Factory and New South East Asia Technology Center

40th anniversary of Mazak Corporation production in the U.S.A

Introduced new CNC MAZATROL SmoothX CNC

Introduced two Hybrid multi-tasking machines

Introduction of MAZAK iSMART Factory^TM concept

Mazak expands European Parts Center in Belgium

Release of MAZATROL SmoothG and MAZATROL SmoothC CNC system

Mazak Corporation together with Cisco developed MAZAK SMARTBOX, a "launch platform for easy and highly secure entrance into the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Yamazaki Mazak Inabe plant announced

Opened Setouchi Technology Center

Opened Hungary Technology Center

Opened China Parts Center

Opened Aerospace Technology Center

Developed hybrid multi-tasking machine VARIAXIS j-600 AM

Announcement of Mazak and Cisco collaboration

Announcement of Mazak and Muratec (AS/RS) collaboration

The “Mazak iSMART Factory^TM” starts operation at Yamazaki Mazak Headquarters in Japan

Integration of the two production bases in Minokamo, Japan and the plan for the Mazak iSMART Factory^TM at Minokamo were announced

25th anniversary of the start of production at the Singapore plant

Developed high speed, high accuracy UD-400/5X 5-axis machining center designed for molds and high precision machining

Inabe plant in Inabe city, Mie prefecture starts operation after completion of first stage of construction

Developed hybrid multi-tasking machine INTEGREX AG series integrating multi-tasking machine with gear cutting

Introduction of the hybrid multi-tasking machine VARIAXIS j-600/5X AM integrating the world’s first blue laser additive manufacturing and machining

Developed Smooth Ai spindle which minimizes chatter for high precision machining surfaces and higher productivity by utilizing AI

Developed 3D direct diode laser processing machine FG-220 DDL

Introduction of Mazak iCONNECT^TM utilizing IoT

Tomohisa Yamazaki was appointed Chairman and CEO
Takashi Yamazaki was appointed President

Developed high speed fiber laser processing machine for cutting small diameter round pipe structural material FT-150 FIBER

Developed new multi-tasking machine INTEGREX i-H series

Developed next generation MAZATROL SmoothAi CNC system with MAZATROL TWINS software

Developed new simultaneous 5-axis machining center VARIAXIS C-600

Opened The Yamazaki Mazak Museum Of Machine Tools

Integration of the two production facilities into a “Mazak iSMART Factory^TM” and start of operation in Minokamo, Japan

Opened Florida Technology Center

Opened Northern California Technology Center

Developed 5-face double column machining center FJW-100/160

Developed compact CNC turning center QTE series

Developed new MAZATROL SmoothEz CNC system

Developed simultaneous 5-axis machining center VARIAXIS i-800 NEO

Developed horizontal machining center HCN-6800 NEO

Introduction of Mazak iCONNECT^TM WEB service

Developed automated system with cobot, Ez LOADER 10

Developed 3D fiber laser processing machine FG-220

Developed fiber laser processing machine OPTIPLEX 3015 NEO

Developed vertical machining center VCN-460・VCN-600

Relocated Denmark Technology Center

Developed 3D fiber laser processing machine FG-400 NEO

Opened Rumania Technical Center

Developed 5-axis machining center VARIAXIS i-700 NEO

Developed horizontal machining center HCN-4000 NEO・HCN-5000 NEO

Developed friction stir welding machine FSW-460V

YAMAZAKI MAZAK MACHINE TOOLS PVT. LTD. (India manufacturing plant) started operation

Started sales of MAZATROL DX, software that digitally transforms work processes

Relocated and expanded China Dalian Technology Center

Developed automated system with cobot, Ez LOADER 30