Founded

Prototype and sale of Yagi-style Primary Tea Rolling Dryer

Prototype and sale of Yagi-style Final Tea Rolling Dryer

Developed a spring compression type Final Tea Rolling Dryer

Established Kawasaki Steelworks Co., Ltd.

Developed a pulling weight type Final Tea Rolling Dryer

Developed a Automatic Dryer

Prototype steel frame Final Tea Rolling Dryer

Each machineries shifted to steel frame

Developed a Final Tea Rolling Dryer to facilitate discharging by an open kettle. Developed a vibrating conveyor and vertical type conveyor for labor-saving.

Developed back hot air generator type Primary Tea Rolling Dryer. Completed the large combined tea factory.

Won the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency Director’s Award for developing an automatic pool for a Primary Tea Rolling Dryer and a package boiler

Developed a Automatic Container. To Improve keeping freshness of fresh leaf. Developed an auto temp. controller for a hot air generator.

Developed a full automation control device by batch system. Advanced automation has led to oilless at rotary part. Introduce large scale plant 120K series.

Selected as an SME stremline model factory. Completed construction of the Kakegawa factory Phase 1

Won the automation development award by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Machine Industry

Developed multistage control primary tea rolling dryer. Developed auto feeder system for final tea rolling dryer. Achieved full automation for whole plant. Installing a tea factory which can become future model that considering to pollution control, environmental sanitation.

Changed company name to “Kawasaki Kiko Co., Ltd.” as the company grew.

Developed steam flow meter. The first step of quantifying steaming process.

Developed a micro computer type Final Tea Rolling Dryer which is automated pulling weight process. Awarded for achivement of automated tea factory by the Japan Tea Industry and Technology Association.

To control tea temperature, time and hot air temperature more precisely due to micro-computerized a controller for Primary Tea Rolling Dryer.

Won the Science and Technology Agency Director’s Award for combined automatic machinery development.

Developed a Fresh Leaf Flow Meter which is made possible production plan control at tea factory.

Developed a micro computerized steamer. Enable advanced control at steaming process.

Held ceremony to commemmorate the 80th anniversary of founding.

Developed an FA system for central management of tea processing factories.

Moved the Main office and Technology center to the newly complrted building in Kakegawa. Developed a micro computerized secondary tea rolling dryer combined with microwave moisutre meter.

Developed a micro computerized primary tea rolling dryer combined with mocrowave moisture meter. Pioneered of Full-scale feedback control technology.

Developed a fresh leaf FA system.

Developed a measuring and maintenance system “Tea Platation Keeper”.

Developed a fresh leaf moisture meter, fresh leaf grading machine, device for measuring an external water content, tea bags palletizer robot.

Announced for Full line FA.

Launch an automatic packing machine and moisture meter. President Kawasaki was awarded as Industrial Development Contributor by the governor of a prefecture.

Announced a labor saving device at blending process.

Moved and built a new office for the Kyushu branch. Developed removable microwave moisture meter. Developed Parching FA line.

Completed the Riding-Type Tea Plucking Machine assembly factory. Developed the Riding-Type Tea Plucking Machine KJ series.

Developed a Foreign Object Remover. Developed a Riding -Type Pruning Machine KJP.

Developed a Color Sorter, a Traceability System, Riding-Type Sprayer KJS.

Launch New 200K Line.

Acquired quality management system ISO9001 certification. Developed combined type tea steamer.

Developed a high moisture meter with Shizuoka University. Held ceremony to commemmorate the 100th anniversary of founding.

Developed hiper controller for a Primary Tea Roling Dryer, full automated packing machine, line monitoring system.

Developed an energy saving line, superheated steam parcher, Riding-Type Tea Plucking Machine KJ6C-SJ.

Developed a color sorter KCS-F series, hyper controller for a Final Tea Rolling Dryer, Riding-Type Tea Plucking Machine KJ8C/KJ10C-SJ.

Dveloped an inverter type steamer. Acquired a patent for the slit jet plucking method.

Developed a Foreign Object Remover.

Developed a Final Tea Dryer 50K.

Developed a new steamer, a Riding-Type Tea Plucking Machine KJ4N.

Developed Hybrid Tea Process Line.

Completed the 1.64MW solar power plant.

Winners of the Vibrant HABATAKU Small and Medium Enterprises 300 Program 2017. Winner of the “Companies Driving Regional Growth”