A short history of Newlong Industrial Company Limited

1941	March The Cho Sewing Machine Company was founded by Yuzaburo Cho for the repair and sale of Special Industrial Sewing Machines in Senju, Adachi-ku, Tokyo.
1948	March The first sales branch was established in Nicho-machi, Taito-ku, Tokyo. The privately-held company was incorporated as Cho Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.
1950	May Paid-in Capital was increased to JPY1,000,000. The company purchased 4950㎡ of land with a 2310㎡ building in Aoto, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo. Large-scale mass production started.
1954	February The company purchased an additional 990㎡ of land next to the Aoto Factory in order to build 825㎡ of additional production facility. Started the production of multi-wall paper bag making machines.
1956	September The manufacturing and sales departments became independent. Newlong Industrial Co., Ltd. became responsible for all manufacturing, and the Cho Sewing Machine Company for all sales. (Presently named Newlong Machine Works, Ltd.)
1961	October Paid-in capital increased to JPY36,000,000.
1961	November Established the Fujioka Factory in Fujioka, Tochigi-ken after purchasing 59,400㎡ of land with a 2,310㎡ building, and started manufacturing industrial sewing machines.
1964	July Cho Sewing Machine Company, responsible for sales, changed it’s name to Newlong Machine Works, Ltd.
1965	September Developed the Model 12M multi-wall tuber.
1968	April Built a new office and plant building of 3,432㎡ floor space on the Aoto Factory site, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo.
1968	July Established Choei Co., Ltd., an accidental insurance and real estate agent.
1968	November Established the Nagano Factory for the production of industrial sewing machine parts in Nagano city.
1973	August Paid-in capital increased to JPY100,000,000.
1974	April Established the Odate Factory in Odate, Akita Prefecture.
1985	April Established the Kashiwa Factory in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture. Production from the Aoto plant was moved to the Kashiwa plant.
1991	April Established the Koide Factory in Koide, Niigata Prefecture.
1991	September Established the Kitakata Factory in Kitakata, Fukushima Prefecture.
2000	July Merged with Nihon Giken Co., Ltd. Established production and sales of kitchen equipment.
2002	April Newlong Industrial Co., Ltd assumed direct responsibility for all marketing and sales of the NLI line of products.

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