Corporate Milestones

  • 1920    The Weighing Machine Division of Kawanishi Kikai K.K. is founded.
  • 1945    The Weighing Division of Kawanishi Kikai K.K. is reorganized as YAMATO SCALE Ltd.
  • 1953    The first domestically made strain gauge load cells and Japan’s first electronic crane scale are produced.
  • 1979    Dataweigh ® ADW-110, the first multihead weigher with load cells, is developed.
  • 1980    The Datacell ® and its load cells are developed and approved by the P.T.B. in Germany.
    The multihead weighers ADW-110, ADW-120, MDW-210, and SDW-220 are introduced.
  • 1981    Yamato is granted the patents for Double Shift and Memory Bucket technology.
  • 1985    Kumyong Yamato Scale Co., Ltd. is founded in Seoul, Korea
  • 1986    Yamato Scale GmbH is founded in Düsseldorf, Germany.
    The multihead weigher Series RA is launched.
  • 1988    The multihead weigher Series RB is launched.
  • 1990    Shanghai Yamato Scale Co., Ltd. is founded in Shanghai, China.
  • 1992    Bejing Schouchang Yamato Electric Scale Co., Ltd. is founded in Peking, China.
  • 1993    Yamato Corporation is founded in the US.
    The multihead weigher Series Sigma with its Super Command Console is launched.
  • 1994    Yamato Scale Dataweigh UK, Ltd. is founded in Leeds, UK.
  • 1996    The introduction of the model ADW-510A marks the launch of the Basic Line multihead weigher Series Alpha.
    Yamato is granted the patent for Digital Filter.
  • 1998    Yamato Corporation Dataweigh Division is founded in the US.
  • 1999    The Advanced Interactive Command Console is released.
  • 2000    Yamato Scale France is founded.
    The multihead weigher Series Sigma Plus is released.
  • 2002    The multihead weigher Series Sigma Compact and Alpha Plus are introduced.
  • 2003    The AICC-SE Console is released.
  • 2004    The digital load cell is released.
  • 2005    The technologically revolutionary concept of the Sigma-F1-Frontier is introduced.
  • 2006    The multihead weigher Series Sigma-F1-Frontier is launched.
    The Russian subsidiary is established in Moscow.
  • 2008    A Yamato subsidiary is established in India.
  • 2010    Yamato Scale GmbH is certified according to the DIN EN ISO 9001:2008.
    Yamato Scale Benelux is founded.
    The multihead weigher Series Dataweigh Omega is introduced.
  • 2012    The Dynamic Tire Balancer DB-DHS1 with a capacity of 14 seconds per cycle is released.
  • 2013    The West Coast Office of Yamato Corporation is founded in the U.S.A.
  • 2014    Yamato Scale de México, S. de R.L. de C.V. is founded.
  • 2015    The office for south-west Germany is founded in Krauchenwies, Germany.
    Yamato Scale Thailand, Co., Ltd. is founded.
    Introduction of the new Checkweigher I-Series + metal detector.
  • 2016    The office for northern Germany is founded in Hamburg, Germany.
    Yamato Scale Italy is founded.
    The multihead weigher Series Alpha Advance is launched.
    Introduction of the Checkweigher J-series.