Yokogawa Electric Corp.

History

YearDetail
1915 Yokogawa Electric Corp. was established as electric meter research institute.
1917 First company to produce and sell electric meters in Japan.
1920 Incorporated as Yokogawa Electric Works Ltd.
1933 Started research and manufacture of aircraft instruments and flow, temperature, and pressure controllers.
1950 Developed Japan's first electronic recorder.
1957 Established North American sales office.
1964 Entered into the industrial analyzer market.
1974 Established Yokogawa Electric Singapore Pte. Ltd.
1983 Formed Yokogawa Hokushin Electric Corp. through merger with Hokushin Electric Works Ltd.
1988 Entered the high- frequency measuring instrument business.
1990 Established Yokogawa Middle East.
2002 Acquired Ando Electric.
2008 Entered the drug discovery support market.
2013 Formed Yokogawa Solution Service Corp.
2016 Acquired KBC Advanced Technologies plc.