| 1946 |
*Sakurai Machinery Works,Ltd. was established
for manufacturing and sales of printing presses. |
| 1961 |
*Sakurai Machine Trading Co.,Ltd, was set
up, specializing in marketing. |
| 1962 |
*Sakurai exhibited its letter presses in
DRUPA 62, in Germany, for the first time. |
| 1963 |
*Technical tie-up with Halm Industry, USA |
| 1964 |
*First screen press was produced. |
| 1966 |
*Monarch, a full-automatic screen press,
was released. |
| 1967 |
*Participated in DRUPA 67, the second DRUPA
Exhibition. |
| 1968 |
*Exhibited a full-automatic screen press
at Print 68 in Chicago. Concluded a technical tie-up agreement
with the General Research lnc., USA and started to build cylinder
type of screen press. |
| 1972 |
*Partaked in DRUPA 72. Midas screen press
was completed. |
| 1973 |
*Constructed a new factory with modem equipment. |
| 1974 |
*Completion of PC 50 for circuit board printing. |
| 1975 |
*The Oliver 48 offset printing press was
built. |
| 1976 |
*A debut of Melody, screen press. |
| 1977 |
*Exhibited the Oliver press at DRUPA 77.
Started to ship to European markets. |
| 1979 |
*Received an award from MINISTRY of International
Trade & Industry. |
| 1980 |
*Established "agency network"
in more than 40 countries. |
| 1982 |
*The Oliver 272 model was exhibited at DRUPA
82. |
| 1983 |
*Sakura System Support Co.,Ltd. was established. |
| 1984 |
*Sakurai Machinery (Europe) Ltd., London,
was established. Sales and technical servicing were expanded
not only to European markets but to Africa and Middle East. |
| 1986 |
*Overseas agency network was reinforced
further. |
| 1988 |
*The Oliver 472ED was completed and exhibited
at IPEX 88. |
| 1989 |
*A new modem factory was constructed at
Mino. |
| 1990 |
*Sakurai USA, Inc.,Chicago, was founded.
*The Oliver 458ED was exhibited at DRUPA 90. |
| 1991 |
*The Oliver 672ED was announced at IGAS
9l. |
| 1992 |
*Renamed Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation(Merger
of Sakurai Machinery Works, Ltd.)
*OLIVER-258EIInjlPII received Good Design Award from Ministry
of International Trade and Industry
*A debut of JMS-162A at FESPA 92 |
| 1993 |
*OLIVER-472EDII/272EII with SPC and OLIVER-272EPII
with Automatic perfecting mechanism were exhibited at IGAS 93 |
| 1995 |
*OLIVER-472EDII with waterless system and
tower coating unit was exhibited at DRUPA 95 and IGAS 95. MS-72A-Double
Eagle was completed.
*Sakura System Support Co., Ltd. was merged into Sakurai Graphic
Systems Corp. |
| 1996 |
*Release of OLIVER-2102EPII with SPC and
PlateMaster 72
*New office of Sakurai USA, Inc. was completed |
| 1997 |
*Debut of the OLIVER-572EDII with a coating
unit at Chicago Print 97.
*Exhibition of OLIVER-474EPII and OLIVER-266EPZ at IGAS 97
*Announcement of PD- 125.
*Expansion of Gifu factory with MAPICS automated control system
and new facilities. |
| 1998 |
*Certified to ISO 900l at Gifu factory.
*Outline of Sakurai Group |
| 2000 |
*OLIVER-474EPII-DI, developed with Presstek,
Inc. U.S.A. was released at DRUPA 2000, Germany.
*Sakurai, London branch office was opened for strengthening
the sale in U.K.
*OLIVER-458EII(B3 size straight) and OLIVER-458EPII(B3 size
convertible perfector) were released.
*Thermal CTP, Dimension 400 of Presstek, Inc.U.S.A. started
to sell.
*Super large sized three-dimensional coordinate measuring machine
(made by Carl Zeiss, Germany) was introduced to improve the
precision of products. |
| 2001 |
*OLIVER-466SIP(A2 size convertible perfector)
was released at JP2001(Osaka)
*Large size full automatic cylinder screen press, SC-142AII
and SC142AX were released. |
| 2002 |
*Hybrid type DI press (B2 size), OLIVER-574EPII-DI
was released at IPEX02, U.K.
*Servo drive full automation cylinder screen press, MSD-102A
and a full automation stop cylinder screen press squeegee pressure
digital adjusting system, MS-80A were released at FESPA02, Spain. |
| 2003 |
*The 100th installation of OLIVER-466SI/SIP
series was realized (February).
*Three dimension CAD system was introduced at the design department
in factory.
*OLIVER-475SD(B2 size straight) was released IGAS03.
*High speed cylinder screen press, MS102AII was released and
high speed printing at 4,000 sheets per hour was demonstrated.
*Gifu factory acquired the certification of ISO9001 (2000 edition). |
| 2004 |
*OLIVER-575SDC(B2 size, 5 color with UV
coater) was released at DRUPA04 (Germany).
*OLIVER-475SDP(B2 size, 4 color convertible perfector) was released
at JGAS04.
*The 200th installation of OLIVER-466SI/SIP series was realized
(June).
*Gifu factory acquired the certification of ISO14001. |
| 2005 |
*MS102AII (Industrial stop cylinder press) won Good Design Award.
*Two colors cylinder press, DMS-102AII was released.
*OLIVER-466SDP (A2 size, convertible perfector) was released
*The 300th installation of OLIVER466SI/SIP series was realized (November) |
| 2006 |
*OLIVER675SDPC (Super B size, six colors convertible perfector with UV coater) was released.
*SAKURAI S-PAS Service is launched.
*Our company was celebrated its 60th anniversary.
*OLIVER 275SDW/SDPW (B2 wide size, 2 colors convertible perfector) was released.
*Gifu Plant's unattended machine-tool group (FMS) undergoes a thorough upgrade.
*Gifu Plant installed 100kw solar power generation system on the rooftops |
| 2007 |
*Gifu Plant expanded 220kw solar power generation system on the rooftops (Total 320kw)
*OL596SD (A1 size) was released at IGAS 2007
*MS102SD (Direct-drive cylinder screen printing press) was released at IGAS 2007
*The 400th installation of OLIVER466SI/SIP series was realized (September) |
| 2008 |
*OL596SDC (A1 size with UV coater) was released at Drupa 2008
*OL466SD (Waterless spec) was released in Toray booth at Drupa 2008
*MS80SD (Direct-drive cylinder screen printing press) was released at our showroom exhibition |
