History

Toyota Industries Corporation was founded in 1926 by Sakichi Toyoda to manufacture and sell the automatic looms which he had invented and perfected.
Since that time Toyota Industries has promoted diversification and expanded the scope of its business domains to include textile machinery, automobiles (vehicles, engines, car air-conditioning compressors, etc.), materials handling equipment, and electronics.

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1867

Sakichi Toyoda is born.

1890

Sakichi Toyoda invents Toyoda Wooden Hand Loom.

1896

Sakichi Toyoda invents Toyoda Power Loom.

1906

Sakichi Toyoda invents the Circular Loom.

1924

Sakichi Toyoda invents Toyoda Automatic Loom, Type G, with non-stop shuttle-change motion.

1926

Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. (now Toyota Industries Corporation) established to manufacture and market the automatic loom invented by Sakichi Toyoda.

1927

Kariya plant completed; starts operations.

1929

Spinning frame production starts.

Automatic loom patent sold to Platt Brothers & Co., Ltd. of the UK.

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