History of KSS
| Jun,1964 | Established Nippon Seiki Seisakusho in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. |
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| Jul,1968 | Moved factory to Yaguchi, Ota-ku (present headquarters location). |
| Mar,1978 | Moved headquarters to present location and changed company name to Shinohara Seisakusho. Started mass-producing Precision Miniature Ball Screws. |
| Feb,1983 | Started Selling Ball Screws Standard Products. |
| Jul,1984 | Built Ojiya Factory in Industrial Park 1 in Ojiya, Niigata, to integrate production bases and strengthen mass-production system. |
| Jan,1987 | Changed company name to KSS Co., Ltd. |
| Jul,1988 | Completed 1st extension to Ojiya Factory. |
| Dec,1989 | Mr. Yoshifumi Ota assumed office as Representative Director. |
| Aug,1990 | Built headquarters building at present location. |
| Jan,1995 | Joined Technical Committee of Ultra Precision Positioning,the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. Opened Tokyo Office on headquarters premises. |
| Mar,1995 | Jointly developed "Bearee" resin lead screws with NTN Engineering Plastics Corporation. |
| Sep,1996 | Completed 2nd extension to Ojiya Factory. Initiated academic/industrial research collaboration (with Otsuka Lab, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, and Kyusojin Lab, Nagaoka University of Technology). |
| Dec,1999 | Ojiya Factory obtained ISO9002 certification |
| Jan,2000 | Actuators released (KUMI Series). |
| Oct,2000 | Completed 3rd extension to Ojiya Factory. |
| Sep,2001 | Direct Motor Drive Ball Screws released (MoBo Series). |
| Nov,2001 | Developed world's smallest Ball Screw (with Screw Shaft diameter of 1.8mm and Lead of 0.5mm). |
| Dec,2001 | Resin Lead Screws released. |
| Feb,2002 | 0.5mm lead Ball Screw series released. |
| Mar,2002 | Ojiya Factory obtained ISO9001 certification for 2000. |
| Sep,2004 | "MoBo"(Direct Motor Drive Ball Screw) USA Patent(No.6791220)qualified. |
| Oct,2004 | Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake, Ojiya Factory restarted production promptly. |
| Dec,2004 | "MoBo"(Direct Motor Drive Ball Screw) Korea Patent(No.10-2002-0027825)qualified. |
| Mar,2005 | Ojiya Factory obtained ISO14001 certification. |
| Apr,2005 | KSS Grease “MSG” for Miniature Ball Screws released. |
| Oct,2005 | Completed 4th extension to Ojiya Factory. |
| Mar,2006 | Akihisa Ota inaugurated as a president & Representative Director. (Yoshifumi Ota inaugurated as Chairman) |
| Jul,2006 | KSS Standard Ball Screws and Related Products conformed to RoHS Directive. |
| Sep,2006 | Released New Product in MoBo Series.(Si-MoBo). |
| Sep,2007 | Opened Shanghai office in China. |
| Jan,2008 | Stainless Rolled Ball Screws released. |
| Jun,2008 | KSS selected top 300 companies of the most active medium and small sized enterprise. |
| Jan,2009 | Rolled Ball Screws with integrated end-journal released. |
| May,2009 | Direct Motor Drive Rolled Ball Screws (Rolled MoBo) released. |
| May,2010 | Ball Screw with Ball Spline released. |
| Jan,2011 | Miniature Actuator(Flex Actuator) released. |
| Nov.2011 | 23th Excellent Award of New Product & New technology of Medium sized Company in Ota Ward, Tokyo JAPAN. New Product awarded : Miniature Ball Screw with Ball Spline(BSSP) |
| Apr.2012 | Direct Drive Actuator(DDA) released. |
| Jan.2020 | Ojiya Factory obtained ISO13485 certification for 2016. |
| Mar,2022 | Takahisa Ota inaugurated as a president & Representative Director. (Akihisa Ota inaugurated as Chairman & Representative Director) |
| Jul.2024 | Celebrated the 60th anniversary of KSS and the 40th anniversary of the Ojiya Factory. |