History

April 2, 1918

Japan’s first fire alarm manufacturer was established under the corporate name of “Tokyo Hochiki Co., Ltd.” at Yurakucho, Kojimachi-ku (now Chiyoda-ku), Tokyo under the investments mainly by life insurance companies.

The prospectus states that the Company was established for the purpose of “manufacturing fire, theft and other alarms and selling modern fire-fighting machinery.”

April 1920	Installed an MM-type fire alarm for public use at Nihonbashi (Tokyo) for the first time in Japan.
October 1951	Succeeded in developing an automatic fire detector.
May 1962	Constructed the Machida Plant in Machida City, Tokyo. Machida Plant
July 1963	Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
January 1967	Commenced the sales of UHF broadcasting converters. UHF converter
June 1968	Succeeded in developing an ionization type smoke detector.
November 1968	Constructed a Head office building at Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo and moved Head Office there. Head Office
March 1969	Constructed the Kakuda Plant (currently called Miyagi Plant) at Kakuda City, Miyagi Prefecture.
November 1971	Established a Representative Office in Los Angeles, USA.
May 1972	Shifted to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
July 1972	Revised the corporate name to HOCHIKI CORPORATION.
July 1972	Hochiki America Corporation established in the U.S. Hochiki America Corporation Electromagnetic field-measuring vehicle working among high-rise buildings in Shinjuku
December 1974	Constructed Ibaraki Plant at Yuki-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture for exclusively manufacturing electronic devices.
July 1986	Commenced the sales of R-type fire prevention system with Model HRE.
September 1986	Established a Representative Office in London, UK.
January 1991	Constructed the new Miyagi Plant at Kakuda City, Miyagi Prefecture. Miyagi Plant
September 1991	Hochiki Europe (U.K.) Limited established in the U.K. Hochiki Europe (U.K.) Limited
July 1992	Miyagi Plant acquired the approval under the international standard of quality management system, ISO-9001.
May 1993	Constructed a new Osaka Branch office building at Higashi Osaka City.
December 1995	Constructed the Multipurpose Fire Test Laboratory of the world’s largest scale at Kakuda City, Miyagi Prefecture (attached to the Miyagi Plant). Multipurpose Fire Test Laboratory
June 1996	Commenced the sales of R-type fire prevention system with Model HRI.
June 1997	Established the Singapore Branch Office as bridgehead of sales activities in Southeast Asia by reinforcing the Representative Office (established in June 1995).
April 1998	Commemorated the 80th anniversary.
June 1998	Acquired the Certificate of Quality Management System for our fire prevention system by Public Safety Bureau, Chinese Government.
March 1999	Commenced the sales of a residential building fire alarm system, “SV System”, not requiring emergency power source.
August 1999	Machida Plant acquired the approval under the ISO-9001.
July 2001	Established a Representative Office at Beijing, China.
October 2001	Our Special Disaster Preventive Dept. acquired the approval under the ISO-9001.
December 2001	Machida Plant acquired the approval under the ISO-14001.
November 2006	Hochiki Fire Prevention Technology Corporation established in China.
April 2008	90th Anniversary of HOCHIKI CORPORATION.
April 2008	Consolidated seven of all the maintenance subsidiary companies(except Hochiki Maintenance Center Corp.) into two(Hochiki Higashinihon Maintenance Corp.and Hochiki Nishinihon Maintenance Corp.)
September 2008	Office established at Taiwan.
June 2009	Wind power system and Solar photovoltaic system have installed in Miyagi Plant.
April 2011	Merged Hochiki Distribution Center Corp.
April 2011	Office established at Australia.
October 2011	Merged Hochiki Maintenance Center Corp. and Hochiki Higashinihon Maintenance Corp. and Hochiki Nishinihon Maintenance Corp.
February 2012	Hochiki Australia Pty.Ltd. established.
June 2012	Hochiki America Corp. established Hochiki de Mexico,S.A.de C.V.
July 2012	Kansai Hochiki Engineering Corp. merged Ehime Hochiki Corp.
September 2012	Taiwan salse branch office established.
October 2012	Acquired Kentec Electronics Ltd.
March 2013	Bangkok representative office and Jakarta representative office established.
March 2013	Hochiki Europe(U.K)Ltd. established Hochiki Middle East FZE in Dubai
April 2014	Hochiki Asia Pacific Pte.Ltd. established in Singapore.
November 2014	Joined Kentec Electronics Ltd.
April 2015	Reliability Test Center has been established for the purpose of further product quality improvement.
July 2015	Transferred all of shares of Hochiki Fire Prevention Technology Corp.in China
July 2016	2nd Miyagi Plant constructed at Kakuda City.
January 2017	Hochiki Europe(U.K) Ltd. acquired D.E.S.SRL(present Hochiki Italia SRL a s.u.)
March 2017	Technical Training Center established in Shinagawa(at Minato-ku), Tokyo
April 2018	100th Anniversary of Hochiki Corporation.
July 2018	Acquired Mito Hochiki Corporation.
October 2018	Hochiki Asia Pacific Pte.Ltd. Established Hochiki Thailand Co.,Ltd.
April 2020	Established Toyota Branch in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture.
October 2022	Acquired DDL Co., Ltd.
September 2023	Hochiki America Corporation Chicago Officees tablished.
April 2024	Merged Hochiki Engineering Corp.