History
| 1946 | Sakurai Machinery Works,Ltd. was established for manufacturing and sales of printing presses. |
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| 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. |
| 1964 | First screen press was produced. |
| 1967 | Participated in DRUPA 67, the second DRUPA Exhibition. |
| 1968 | 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. |
| 1975 | The OLIVER 48 offset printing press was built. |
| 1977 | Exhibited the OLIVER press at DRUPA 77. Started to ship to European markets. |
| 1982 | The OLIVER 272 model was exhibited at DRUPA 82. |
| 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. |
| 1989 | A new modem factory was constructed at Mino. |
| 1990 | Sakurai USA, Inc.,Chicago, was founded. |
| 1991 | The OLIVER 672ED was announced at IGAS 91. |
| 1992 | Renamed Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation(Merger of Sakurai Machinery Works, Ltd.) |
| 1993 | OLIVER472EDII/272EII with SPC and OLIVER272EPII with Automatic perfecting mechanism were exhibited at IGAS 93. |
| 1996 | Release of OLIVER2102EPII with SPC. |
| 1997 | Debut of the OLIVER572EDII with a coatingunit at Chicago Print 97. Expansion of Gifu factory with MAPICS automated control system and new facilities. |
| 1998 | Certified to ISO 900l at Gifu factory. |
| 2000 | Sakurai, London branch office was opened for strengthening the sale in U.K. Super large sized three-dimensional coordinate measuring machine(made by Carl Zeiss, Germany) was introduced to improve the precision of products. |
| 2001 | OLIVER466SIP(A2 size convertible perfector)was released at JP2001(Osaka). |
| 2002 | 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. Gifu factory acquired the certification of ISO9001 (2000 edition). |
| 2004 | OLIVER575SDC(B2 size, 5 color with UV coater) was released at DRUPA04 (Germany). Gifu factory acquired the certification of ISO14001. |
| 2005 | OLIVER466SDP (A2 size, convertible perfector) was released The 300th installation of OLIVER466SI/SIP series was realized. |
| 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) OLIVER596SD (A1 size) was released at IGAS 2007 MS-102SD (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 MS-80SD (Direct-drive cylinder screen printing press) was released at our showroom exhibition |
| 2009 | Exhibited at JGAS2009 the A1 size 4 color offset press, Model OLIVER496SD with waterless print application, and the MS-80SD with low-temperature UV dryer MS-80UV-N. |
| 2010 | B2-wide two color/perfector offset press, Model OLIVER275SDPw and servo drive cylinder screen press, Model MS-80SD with low temperature UV dryer were exhibited at JP-Osaka. |
| 2011 | The first new technology presentation show was held at the Gifu Plant. The concept was "showing new products and technologies developed with customers". As a state-of-the-art, high-precision technology, the B2 wide four color offset printing machine OLIVER480SD and the two color cylinder screen printing line DMS-102SD, and MS-80SD-CCD camera for the printed electronics industry were released. |
| 2012 | OLIVER580SDC B2 – Wide 5 color press was exhibited at DRUPA 2012 (12th participation since 1962) |
| 2013 | Installed 4 lines of MS-80SD-CCD camera at touch panel maker in China MSDR-60 1 color line was released at new technology introduction show in Gifu factory. |
| 2014 | OLIVER880SDC-LED UV dryer press, B2 wide 8 color offset press was exhibited at new technology
introduction show in Gifu factory, and it is delivered to a label printing company in USA MSDR-60 2 color line was released at new tech. introduction show in Gifu factory Instaled MSDR-60 2 color line and 3 color line at smartphone window printers in Korea. |
| 2015 | At IGAS 2015 Exhibition (Tokyo), we exhibited the OLIVER580SD five color offset press with LED-UV dryer and inline coater, and the cylinder type roll-to-roll screen printing machine MSDR-60. Under the theme of "the future of your printing", we proposed a demonstration of waterless LEDUV printing and utilize of screen printing for commercial printing. |
| 2016 | A2 size two color offset press OLIVER266SI semi-highpile model, direct drive cylinder screen press MS-110DDS were released at the 6th new technology introduction show (at Gifu factory). At DRUPA 2016 exhibition, the line with MSDR-60 + LED-UV dryer and cylinder type fully automatic screen perss MS-80AII (upgraded model), which is the best-selling machine, are exhibited together with the electronic low-temperature UV dryer made by Natgraph, UK. |
| 2017 | As the MSDR series, announced the compact size MSDR-30, which thoroughly pursues the operability and high precision unique to small machines, and the printing sheet automatic inspection device MS-102INS, to which a cylinder screen printer is applied. |
| 2018 | Released A2 size OLIVER266 RCS multi-purpose processing machine and MSDR-30 two color roll to roll printing line. At the IGAS 2018 exhibition, a demonstration of a series of printing, decoration, inspection and processing production processes under the theme of "Shape" and a printing press operation management system using IoT were exhibited. |
| 2019 | The hot foil line connecting luxury quality metal LQM-105 to the stop cylinder type fully automatic screen printing press MS-102AX capable of achieving high added value and high productivity is announced at a new technology presentation show in April. Released the conveyor type printed sheet automatic inspection system SI-102OL. |
| 2020 | We have announced DMS-80SD-EXT + CCD, multi-task automatic cylinder screen line combined with Ink Jet Printing as a concept of EXCITE(EXTRA COMBINATION OF INKJET TECHNOLOGY). It can be realized the process of full-color inkjet printing, white back up printing, and glue printing (powdering) in one line. The foiling unit we released in 2019 have updated and announced as a highly functionalized unit LQM-105 EVOLUTION at the same time. |
| 2021 | We have built a new system to support " trial production and contract production " that accompanies the development of new products by our customers. With the know-how and experience as a printing machine manufacturer, we will help our customers to identify the business needs and develop new markets for new products. |