Year | Detail |
1896 |
Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard was founded in 1878 by Shozo Kawasaki which later on was incorporated as Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd. |
1897 |
Kawasaki Dockyard completed a cargo-passenger ship, Iyomaru (727 GT), its first ship after becoming a publicly traded company. |
1906 |
Kawasaki completed and delivered the first two submarines no. 6 and 7 to the Navy in Japan. |
1922 |
Kawasaki completed its first airplane at its Hyogo works, and conducted test flights in Sohara Village (currently Kakamigahara City), Gifu Prefecture. |
1934 |
The company (Kawasaki Rolling Stock Manufacturing) exported a large number of locomotives, passenger coaches, and freight cars to China. |
1941 |
During World War II, the company (Kawasaki Aircraft) manufactured the type 3-1 fighter Hien, the only liquid-cooled fighter developed in Japan during the war. |
1952 |
The company signed a technical agreement with Bell Aircraft Corporation (Bell Helicopter Textron) of the U.S. and completed the development of the Kawasaki-Bell 47D-1 helicopter in Japan. |
1968 |
The company (Kawasaki Aircraft) entered into a technical agreement with Unimation Inc., an industrial robots specialized co. to start the development work. |
1969 |
Kawasaki Dockyard, Kawasaki Rolling Stock Manufacturing, and Kawasaki Aircraft merged to become Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. |
1972 |
The company introduced the Kawasaki Z1, includes an air-cooled, 4-stroke, 4-cylinder, 903 cm3, DOHC engine, and comes with an unique mechanism. |
1987 |
Kawasaki received an order for two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) with diameters of 8.17 meters for the underwater railroad for the Channel Tunnel linking Great Britain and the European continent. |
2001 |
The company opened Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., a fully integrated rolling stock factory inside Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp. (KMM)'s Lincoln Plant in Nebraska, U.S.. |
2010 |
Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corp., Kawasaki Precision Machinery Limited (KPM), and Kawasaki Plant Systems, Ltd. (K Plant) are re-merged to form Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. |
2017 |
Kawasaki opened a production line to manufacture cargo doors for Boeing’s commercial airplane, the 777X, at the Lincoln Plant of Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., U.S.. |