Corporate Profile
Company History
November 1969 | The current CEO Hiroshi Abe founded Asahi Seiko Co,. Ltd. on 3-7-3 Ryusen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, and started business. |
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September 1974 |
Established technological alliance with Karl W. Muller in West Germany for coin selectors, and started manufacturing. |
September 1975 |
Established technological alliance with Coin Controllers International in Great Britain for coin selectors, and started manufacturing. |
August 1977 |
Separated the manufacturing department and reestablished it as Asahi Coin Mech Co., Ltd. in Kawaguchi, Saitama to increase production. |
August 1981 |
Relocated the head office to 2-24-15 Minami-Aoyama Minato-ku, Tokyo to strengthen the sales organization. |
November 1984 |
Set up Iwatsuki Factory in Iwatsuki, Saitama, and absorbed Asahi Coin Mech to strengthen the product development system. |
March 1989 |
Founded Asahi Seiko USA Inc. (Asahi Seiko USA branch) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. |
April 1992 |
CEO Hiroshi Abe received the Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency Prize. |
August 1994 |
Established Asahi Seiko (EUROPE) LTD (Asahi Seiko European branch) in Kent, Britain (*closed in August 2022). |
July 1996 |
Separated Asahi Seiko USA Inc. from the branch and reestablished as an American subsidiary. |
November 1998 |
Established Kitsuregawa Factory in Kitsuregawa, Tochigi. |
April 2001 |
Iwatsuki Factory acquires ISO9001. |
April 2003 |
CEO Hiroshi Abe received the Medal with Yellow Ribbon from the Emperor. |
December 2004 |
Completed the new sales management system at the Head Office Sales and Accounting departments. The intersystem coordination with the production management system established the comprehensive operation solution. |
March 2005 |
Established the second factory in Iwatsuki. |
April 2005 |
The factory address was changed due to municipal merger. Iwatsuki Factory was changed to Saitama Factory, and Kitsuregawa Factory to Tochigi Factory. |
November 2006 |
Established 4th wing in Tochigi Factory. |
March 2007 |
The Sales Department at the Head Office acquires ISO9001. |
October 2010 |
Received the Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office Award for utilizing the patent system for newly developed technologies. |
November 2012 |
CEO Hiroshi Abe received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Emperor. |
September 2014 |
For the first time, our Coin Recycler passed the counterfeit Euro coin detection test stipulated by EU regulations. |
July 2018 |
Our Coin Recycler passed the Golden Standard (Technical specification for RMB cash machine identification ability) test by Authentication Testing Center of Security Printing Institute of People’s Bank of China. |
March 2019 |
All locations and departments in Japan acquire ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001. |
November 2019 |
Celebrated the 50th anniversary. |
November 2023 |
Celebrated the 55th anniversary. |
July 2024 |
Hiroshi Abe was appointed as an advisor. |