＜IAI Japan＞
Corporate Profile
| Company Name： | IAI Corporation |
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| Location： |
(Head office and factory) Obane 577-1, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka-city, Shizuoka-pref. 424-0103 |
| Represented by： | Toru Ishida, President |
| Establishment： | April 3, 1976 |
| Line of business： | Development, design, manufacturing and sale of small sized industrial robots |
| Capital： | 30,000,000 Japanese Yen |
| Employees： | 705 persons (as of January 2013) |
Corporate history
| April 1976 | Establishment of company (company name : Shimizu Kiden Co., Ltd) |
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| October 1986 | Start of manufacturing and sale of IA (Intelligent actuator) |
| April 1989 | American sales company IAI America, Inc. was established in Los Angels |
| October 1991 | A sales office was established in Chicago |
| June 1992 | Company name was changed to IAI Corporation. IAI is the abbreviation of Intelligent Actuator Incorporated |
| September1995 | European sales company IAI Industrieroboter GmbH was established in Frankfurt, Germany |
| June 1999 | Earth-friendly motorized cylinder "Robo Cylinder' series were released. |
| August 2004 | Obane New Factory was established in Japan. Four factories and 3 warehouses were consolidated |
| July 2006 | "New Robo Cylinder" series were released. |
| January 2007 | IAI (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in Shanghai, China in order to expand the services |
| August 2007 | Head office in Japan was moved to a newly built building at the south of Obane Factory, Shimizu-ku |
| April 2009 | A motorized cylinder of next generation "Slim small sized Robo Cylinder" series which realized "smaller" was released. |
| February 2011 | Achieved the sales of 1,000,000 sets IA (Intelligent Actuator). |
| August 2011 | Sales office was established in Shenzhen, China |
| March 2013 | Sales company in South East Asia IAI Robot (Thailand) Co., Ltd. was established in Bangkok, Thailand. |
Overseas sales bases