1920
Established Tanaka Rolling Stock Works.
1939
Organized Tanaka Rolling Stock Co., Ltd.
1945
Changed the company name to The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd.
1949
Listed stocks to the Osaka Stock Exchange.
1956
Started manufacture steel sash and door.
1958
Delivered the first ever doubled deck electric train to Kintetsu Corporation.
1961
Established The Kinki Kogyo Co., Ltd. in conjunction with Kintetsu Corporation.
Listed stocks to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
1962
Manufactured and delivered LRVs to Heliopolis Co., for Housing & Development in Egypt.
Thereafter supplied over, 1,500 cars to Egypt.
1964
Delivered the world’s first high-speed rail Shinkansen “Bullet” train to Japan National Railways
1970
Established Kinki Aluminium Co., Ltd.(Currently KS Technos Co., Ltd.) in conjunction with Kintetsu Corporation.
1972
Developed automatic newspaper vending machine, and expand business into the automatic vending machine industry.
1974
Established Kinki Golf Center Co., Ltd. (Currently KS Service Co., Ltd.).
1979
Established Kinsha Service Co., Ltd. (Currently KS Technos Co., Ltd.).
1986
Established Techno Design Co., Ltd.
(Currently Design Center).
Delivered LRV to Boston,USA.Thereafter supplied over 360 LRVs to various cities in the USA.
1991
Established KINKISHARYO (USA) INC. (currently KINKISHARYO International, L.L.C.) as a wholly-owned company of The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd.
1993
Recorded the production of 10,000 electric rail cars since the company name was changed to The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd.
1996
Established Misr Japan Allied Co. for Rolling Stock Maintenance & Renewal in Egypt in conjunction with Mitsubishi Corporation, Toshiba Corporation and Arab Engineering & Distribution Co.
Approved by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Limited on the basis of the "ISO9001" Quality Management System Standards.
1999
Established KINKISHARYO International ,L.L.C.
2001
Established Cosmo Kinki Co., Ltd. in conjunction with Cosmo Industry Co., Ltd.
2004
Relocated head office at 2-6-41 Inada-Uemachi, Higashi-Osaka City.
Approved by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Limited on the basis of the "ISO14001" Environmental Management System Standards.
2005
Delivered Japan’s first 100% low-floor articulated Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) Green Mover Max in a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Toyo Electric Co. with operational support provided by Hiroshima Electric Railway Company.
2006
Established Kinkisharyo International Canada Inc. and subsidized RAIL TRANSIT CONSULTANTS, INC. by KINKISHARYO (USA) INC.
2009
Closed our home door and entrance accessories division.
Delivered 395-railcars for Dubai Metro. The first fully-automated unmanned driving system in the Arabian Peninsula. For Roads and Transport Authority (Dubai)
2012
Made the contract with West Japan Railway Company for the alliance.
Integrated KS Design Co., Ltd. into Design Center.
2018
KINKISHARYO (USA) INC. and KINKISHARYO International, L.L.C. were consolidated into a single company: KINKISHARYO International, L.L.C.
2020
Celebrated the 100th year since our foundation!
