Yamazaki Mazak Corporation

Yamazaki Mazak Corporation
Native name	ヤマザキマザック株式会社
Company type	Private KK
Industry	Machinery
Founded	Nagoya (1919; 105 years ago)
Founder	Sadakichi Yamazaki
Headquarters	Ōguchi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Key people	Yoshihiko Yamazaki; (Senior Vice Chairman); Tomohisa Yamazaki; (President)
Products	Machining centers; Multitasking machines; CNC systems; CNC laser processing machines; CAD/CAM systems; Production support software;
Number of employees	7,848 (group total, as of Jul 2016)
Website	Official website
	Footnotes / references;

Yamazaki Mazak Corporation (ヤマザキマザック株式会社, Yamazaki Mazakku Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese machine tool builder based in Oguchi, Japan.^[3] In the most of the world they are referred to as Mazak.

History

The company was founded in 1919 in Nagoya by Sadakichi Yamazaki as a small company making pots and pans.^[4] During the 1920s it progressed through mat-making machinery to woodworking machinery to metalworking machine tools, especially lathes.^[5] The company was part of Japan's industrial buildup before and during World War II, then, like the rest of Japanese industry, was humbled by the war's outcome.

During the 1950s and 1960s, under the founder's sons, Yamazaki revived, and during the 1960s it established itself as an exporter to the American market.^[6] During the 1970s and 1980s it established a larger onshore presence in the US, including machine tool-building operations,^[7] and since then it has become one of the most important companies in that market and the global machine tool market.

In 1980s, the European manufacturing plant was established in Worcester, U.K., and a worldwide sales and customer support network was created. Currently, the corporation runs 10 factories worldwide - 5 in Japan, 2 in China, 1 in Singapore, 1 in the US, 1 in the UK.

Gallery

Mazak Art Plaza and the Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art in Nagoya
Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art
Mazak Technology Center in Katowice, Poland
Mazak machines in the Kubanzheldormash machinery company in Armavir, Russia.

References

^ "About Mazak".
^ "About Mazak". Yamazaki Mazak Corporation. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
^ "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
^ Holland 1989, p. 109.
^ Holland 1989, pp. 109–110.
^ Holland 1989, pp. 119–125.
^ Holland 1989, pp. 238, 267–268.

Bibliography

Holland, Max (1989), When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 978-0-87584-208-0, OCLC 246343673.