History
YKK HISTORY
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2019.Jul.
Started selling Textile and Plastic Parts & Buttons by integrated sales with YKK FASTENERS PRODUCTS KOREA Co., Ltd.
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2008.Dec
Achieved the sales of 100 million dollar
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2008.Jan
Started selling Snap & Button by integrated sales with
YKK SNAP FASTENERS KOREA Co., Ltd.
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2003.Mar
Completion of the building B of a new factory
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2002.Feb
YKK Korea Co., Ltd. Increase of capital 10 million dollar
(Capital 5 billion 2 hundreds twenty million won) -
2000.Jan
Completion of the building A of a new factory
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1999.Dec
25 million dollar
(Capital 3 billion 5 hundreds 97million won) -
1999.Jun
Merger with YKK SEOUL and changing the
name of company –YKK Korea Co., Ltd. -
1984.Dec
Extending and enlargement for the first
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1977.Dec
Constructed the factory in Pyeongtaek-si
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1977.Oct
Bought land in Pyeongtaek-si
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1977.Sep
Established YKK Korea Co., Ltd.
(30th nation of overseas expansion)
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1975
Operated kyushu factory in Kumanoto ken Yaheusirosie
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1974
Operated Tohoku factory in Miyagi Sidagun Sambongkiho
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1972
Operated Shikoku Plant in present
Ayauta District Utajeuchyo -
1963
Relocated the head office to
Tokyo Chiyodagu Kandaijeumichyo(the present address)
No one agreed, because manufacturers at that time thought that it would be better to make them cheaper by using manual dexterity of Japanese than mechanization. So there was no choice but to get the permission of import from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry(Korea: the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy) alone and imported automatic zipper machines from Japan for the first time.
It became an overwhelming position, and had a rush of orders in the world by the successful development of type of chain machine and its development of automatic slider machine.
YKK brought innovation to the Japanese zipper business, and eliminated the obstacle and breakdown after changing the production methods from production process to product management. And it established No. 1 overseas affiliated company(manufacture and sale of fastener) in 1959 in New Zealand.
Yoshida Tadao resumed business alone in his home, Toyama ken Uozu, with machines of Tokyo factory burned by air raid.
Production of fasteners at that time was almost hand work, and it was produced by the manual press which planted one by one to the cloth tape picked up with skewer-shaped metal, by grabbing the teeth with both hands(meshing portion of the zipper). For the work, there were 13 people in 1 team, and 12 people among them were female workers who did the planting work, and remaining 1 people did the pressing work. This Echisen press work was a hard labor which was driven out by 12 people, and it was merely enough to pay a few extra 2,3 hops of rice every day in a poor era which didn’t have anything to eat.
Zippers produced at that time were sold as much as they were made, and the sales office was established in Tokyo for the purpose of export. But American fasteners known through the American buyer who came in July of that year was much cheaper than YKK fasteners and the quality was incomparably good.
It became a big challenge to the founder Tadao Yoshida, and he made decision to produce YKK fasteners into products that can be competed when exported, and it became the opportunity to bring the time of automated production forward.
Yoshida Tadao who came up to the capital in 1928 got a job in Furuya store(the birthplace of the future Yoshida Industry) which was doing the porcelain trade in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, and he went through the difficulty in management according to the Manchurian Incident in 1931. In September, 1933, he started the sales of fasteners with the help of fasteners brand(SSS) in Osaka. But Furuya store was bankrupt and Yoshida Tadao established the company(Saneseu store) which processed and sold fasteners with inventory of fasteners in Furuya store in the same place in January, 1934.
It was the meeting of Tadao Yoshida and fasteners.
After the establishment, Saneseu store which grew up in a difficult situation received damage that plant was burned down
in World War II.
