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1918 Our founder, Gisaburo Sugata, established Sugahei Shokai in Kasaoka-cho, Fukuyama City. Started producing and selling pumps, and selling industrial machines manufactured both domestically and overseas. photo

1938 Moved to larger site in Okinogami-cho, Fukuyama City. photo

1955 Company name changed to Kyokuto Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Began production of air blowers in addition to pumps under the Kyokuto name. photo

1958 Designated as a model streamlined factory by the Small Business Administration.

1965 Technology partnership with Franklin Inc. (USA) in '65. photo

1966 Technology partnership with Deming Inc. (USA) in '66.

1967 Moved head office and main factory to Miyuki-cho. Completed a modern factory that boasted the greatest scale and newest equipment. photo

1971 began selling total heat exchangers in addition to pumps and air blowers.

1974 Developed fire pump units which were the predecessors to the now popular self-contained units.

1975 Developed the industry's first water supply equipment unit. photo

1976 Established Kyokuto Services Co., Ltd. (Teral Technoservice Inc.).

1981 Business partnership with Flygt Inc. (Sweden). photo

1985 Addressed "Improving Water Quality Through Destratification" with Shiga Prefecture's Lake Biwa Research Institute.

1986 Released the "ARLS Series," which caused a revolution in pump materials. photo

1987 Completed the General Research Institute. Released the "Econo S" total heat exchanger.

1988 Completed our Saitama factory. Began supporting the Kansai Hydrosphere Interest Research Organization.
Changed the company name to Teral Kyokuto Inc.
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1989 Won the Small and Medium Enterprise Research Center Award.

1990 Established Teral Chemical Inc. Organized an overseas trip for employees to celebrate surpassing 20 billion yen in yearly sales. photo

1991 Established Teral Thai Co., Ltd.

1993 Established Teral Denso Co., Ltd. Held the all-Japan Living Environment Forum in '93.

1994 Established Teral Environmental Systems Co., Ltd. Began working for the global environment in addition to our living environment.

1995 Teral Thai completed its new Ayutthaya factory. Established Teral (H. K.) Ltd.

1997 Bought a building in Tokyo's Bunkyo-ku (Teral Koraku Building/Tokyo Branch). photo

1998 Achieved 7,000,000 hours of accident-free production. Teral Services and Teral Environmental System merged to form Teral Technoservice Inc. Received ISO9001 certification. photo

1999 Teral Denso Co.,Ltd. acquired ISO9001 certificate.

2000 Teral Chemical Inc. acquired ISO9001 certificate.

2003 All the corporate stock of Taku Electric Corp. was transferred from Mitsubish Electric Co., Ltd.

2004 Capital partnership with Kurita Electric Works.,Ltd

2005 Disposer business was transferred from Sekisui Aqua Systems Co.,Ltd.

2006 All the corporate stock of Shinto Co., Ltd was transferred from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Teral General Machine (Shangahai) start operation at the new factory.
Ekiya factory for large-sized fan start operation.

2008 Pump business was transferred from Matsushita Electric Works , Ltd.
Changed the company name to Teral Inc.

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