Our History

Nov
1944
Founded as Fuji Weapon Co., Ltd. (15 million yen in capital).
Fuji Gas Spinning Co., Ltd. (Current Fujibo Holding, Inc.)invested fully and changed Washizu plant into an arms plant to produce bullets for Toyokawa naval force.
Oct
1945
Renamed to Fuji Kiko Co., Ltd., and shifted the business to manufacturing, processing, repairing and selling machineries and tools (while enhancing labor saving of spinning machines, producing and selling knitting machines, shifted the business to manufacturing automotive components with the stream).
Apr
1954
Started business with Nissan and manufacturing automotive components.
Mar
1965
Entered into a business partnership with Ikeda Corporation for seat reclining devices.
Mar
1966
Listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Apr
1973
Started business with Suzuki (Current Suzuki)
Oct
1977
Established Arai plant in Araicho, Hamana district in Shizuoka (Current Kosai-shi in Shizuoka).
Jul
1985
Separated Nakatsu plant to establish Kyushu Fujikiko Co., Ltd. (Current TF-METAL Kyushu Co., Ltd.)
Oct
1986
Separated Shinshiro plant to establish Higashi Mikawa Fujikiko Co., Ltd. (Current TF-METAL Higashi Mikawa Co., Ltd.)
Aug
1989
Established Ryuyo plant in Ryuyo-cho, Iwata district in Shizouka (Current Iwata city in Shizuoka)
Sep
1996
Transferred to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Nov
1996
Established FA Co., Ltd. (Current TF-METAL Iwata Co., Ltd.)
Aug
1999
Formed a capital alliance with TACHI-S Co., Ltd. (HQ in Akishima, Tokyo) in management and capital.
Jul
2000
Established Fujikiko of USA Corporation (FKU) in U.S.A. (Current TF-METAL AMERICAS CORPORATION (TFA))
May
2001
Formed a capital alliance with Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd. (Current JTEKT Corporation).
Mar
2003
Increased capital stock to 4.383 billion yen through allocation of new shares to a third party.
Mar
2004
Established Fuji Autotech U.S.A., LLC in U.S.A. (Current TF-METAL U.S.A., LLC (TFU))
Dec
2004
Increased capital stock to 5.986 billion yen through public offering and allocation of new shares to a third party.
Jan
2005
Established Fuji Autotech Guangzhou Co., Ltd. (FAG) in China. (Current TF-METAL GUANGZHOU CO., LTD. (TFG))
Mar
2011
Established Zhejiang Fu Chong Tai Automotive Parts Co., Ltd. (FACT) in China.
Sep
2012
Established Fujikiko TACHI-S Mexico, S.A. DE C.V. (FTMEX) in Mexico. (Current TF-METAL MEXICO S.A. DE C.V. (TFMEX))
Dec
2013
Established Fu Chong (Fuzhou) Engineering Co., Ltd. (FCE) in China.
Sep
2014
Established an European office of Seat Business Division in Germany.
Nov
2014
Fuji Kiko Co., Ltd. celebrated its 70 th anniversary.
Oct
2017
Started operation of TF-METAL Co., Ltd. with the succession of seat business split from Fuji Kiko Co., Ltd.
Dec
2018
Closed an European office in Germany.
Jan
2019
Liquidated Fu Chong (Fuzhou) Auto Parts Engineering Co., Ltd. (FCE)
Dec
2019
Established TF-METAL Zhejiang Co., Ltd. (TFZ)
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