November | 1944 | Founded as Fuji Weapon Co., Ltd., (capitalized at 15 million yen) fully funded by Fuji Gas Spinning Co., Ltd., (current Fujibo Holding, Inc.)
Manufactured bullets for Toyokawa naval force by transforming the then current Washizu Factory of Fuji Gas Spinning Co., Ltd., into an arms' factory. |
October | 1945 | Renamed to Fuji Kiko Co.,Ltd., shifted the business to manufacturing, processing, repair and sales of machineries and tools (while enhancing power saving of spinning machines, producing and selling knitting machines, shifted the business to producing auto parts in response to demands at the time). |
April | 1954 | Started dealing with Nissan and manufacturing auto parts. |
July | 1959 | Acquired the Honjo factory of Fujibo, fully funded the establishment of Saitama Kiko Co.,Ltd. |
March | 1963 | Restarted operation of Saitama Kiko Co.,Ltd. as a Honjo factory of Fuji Kiko through M&A with it. |
March | 1966 | Listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
October | 1977 | Founded and started operation of the Arai factory in Arai-cho, Hamana in Shizuoka. (current Arai-cho, Kosai city in Shizuoka) |
September | 1996 | Listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
May | 2001 | Linked-up (Tied up) with Koyo Seiko Co.,Ltd. (current JTEKT Corporation)≫ |
April | 2005 | Founded Fuji Kiko Kurata Co.,Ltd.(current Fuji Kiko Autotech Tokai Co.,Ltd.) in Gamagori city, Aichi. |
January | 2008 | Built new Honjo factory in Imaidai, Honjo city, Saitama. (fully relocated in May 2008). |
November | 2014 | FUJI KIKO Co., Ltd. celebrated its 70th anniversary. |
March | 2016 | Completed technical center by Washizu factory. (April, 2016 operation) |
October | 2017 | TF-METAL Co., Ltd.≫ succeeded seat component business. |
October | 2017 | Transferred all stocks of TF-METAL Co,. Ltd.≫ to TACHI-S Co., Ltd.≫ |
December | 2017 | Acquired all stocks of Fuji Kiko Kurata Co., Ltd. and changed the company's name to Fuji Kiko Autotech Tokai Co., Ltd..
Acquired all stocks of Fuji Autotech (Thailand) Co., Ltd. |
January | 2018 | Became a wholly owned subsidiary of JTEKT Corporation≫ after the takeover bid.
Delisted from the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
April | 2022 | Unified business brand to JTEKT. |
April | 2023 | Company name changed to JTEKT COLUMN SYSTEMS CORPORATION. |