History

1895

Japan Yamaguchi Takehiko tours nail-making factories in the US

1914

Japan Nippon Seiko Limited Partnership Company established

1916

Japan NSK Ltd. founded in Yurakucho, Tokyo First bearings produced

1916

First in Japan Bearing mass production achieved

1917

First in Japan Rolling bearings for trucks

Japan’s oldest surviving bearings catalog published (4th edition from 1918)

NSK catalog issued in 1917

1918

First in Japan Large-size double-row thrust ball bearings for slewing rim of cranes (OD 510 mm)

Large-size bearings and engineer (1923)

1925

First in Japan Deep groove ball bearings for marine gyrocompass rotors

1926

First in Japan Cylindrical roller bearings for aeroengines

First in Japan Bearing steel balls produced

1930

Exhibited at the Sea and Sky Exhibition in Tokyo

Expanded heat treatment equipment, steel ball factory and grinding machines at the Osaki Plant

1931

First in Japan Double-row cylindrical roller bearings for rolling mills (roll neck bearings for Nippon Kokan)

First in Japan Bearings for domestically produced aeroengines

1932

First in Japan Bearings for gas-powered railcars for Japanese National Railways

1934

Japan Tamagawa Plant established in Ota, Tokyo (closed in 1999)
[1934 steel ball factory → 1935 ball bearing factory]

1937

Japan Fujisawa Plant established in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture [1937 steel ball factory → 1939 ball bearing factory]