1946 | Shimao Sakurazawa founded Sakurazawa Seisakusyo to manufacture factory automation equipment and switchboards. |
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1963 | Developed conveyor type frying equipment for instant noodle production lines. |
1964 | Established Fuji Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Shimao Sakurazawa inaugurated as president. Began to manufacture and sell instant noodle production lines and various types of conveyors. Invented two-wing fans for industrial use. Constructed Fujioka Factory. |
1968 | Relocated operations to the present location. Developed new type of steam tunnel conveyor and cooling conveyor. |
1970 | Folding type cutting machine and distributor for instant noodles developed and delivered to domestic instant noodle manufacturers. |
1971 | Model automated plant for instant noodles, composed of alkali liquid weighing tank, mixer, vari-kneader, high-speed dough sheet pressing rollers (480mm width), folding type cutting machine, distributor, frying equipment, and cooling conveyor completed and delivered from the above plant to domestic instant noodle manufacturers. |
1972 | Mass production line for bifun (rice noodles) and harusame (green bean noodles) developed and delivered to domestic food manufacturers. |
1973 | Cup type noodle loader line, composed of cup feeder, noodle feeding unit, soup powder & dried garnish feeder, lid feeder, lid sealer and cup removal unit developed and delivered to domestic instant noodle manufacturer. |
1974 | Automatic noodle cake feeder, which supplies noodle cakes into a wrapping machine automatically, developed and delivered to domestic instant noodle manufacturers. 600mm width automatic rollers (dough sheet slack controlled automatically) completed and delivered to domestic instant noodle manufacturers. |
1975 | Developed automatic cutting machine for dried noodles. |
1976 | Invented “Self-roller”, automatic operator-less vertical type dough sheet pressing roller. Developed automatic sachet (dried garnish) feeder and cup feeder. Multi-pass (3-stage) steam tunnel conveyor completed and delivered to domestic instant noodle processing manufacturers. |
1977 | Non-fried soba (Japanese buckwheat noodle) type instant noodle processing equipment developed and delivered to domestic instant noodle processing manufacturers. Hatsuo Sakurazawa inaugurated as president. |
1979 | Developed utility (sterilization drying) microwave conveyor. |
1980 | Completed continuous cup loader conveyor for cup type noodle production lines. |
1982 | Developed noodle forming device for randomized type noodle production lines. |
1983 | Introduced CAD/CAM system. Developed 3-stage type barconveyor. |
1985 | Developed automatic folded noodle cake feeder, noodle transfer device and rotary dried garnish feeder. |
1988 | Developed free-flow conveyor and multi-lane heat sealer. |
1993 | Developed high-speed automatic sealing machine |
1994 | Rice cake chip aligning machine developed and delivered to domestic confectionary manufacturers. |
1995 | Received the “Prize for Contribution to the Food Industry, Postwar 50 Years” award from the Japan Food Journal. |
1996 | Exhibited “Labor & space saving” instant noodle processing line composed of Continuous mixer, vertical continuous pressing roller, basket-type multi-pass steam tunnel conveyor and multi-pass frying equipment at the International Food Machinery & Technology Exhibition (FOOMA). Received an award as a contributing enterprise for promoting industry, from the Mayor of Takasaki. |
1997 | Accumulators developed and delivered to domestic instant noodle manufacturers. Introduced laser-welding machine. |
1998 | ISO9001 certification granted. |
1999 | High speed drier developed and delivered to domestic instant noodle manufacturers. |
2002 | Developed a high efficiency steamer and received the Nakagawa Takeo Award for Encouragement from Gunma Prefecture as “steaming device for noodles”. Delivered to foreign instant noodle manufacturers. |
2003 | Servo-motor drive laser processing machine introduced. Makoto Sakurazawa inaugurated as president. |
2007 | Automatic product switching loader conveyor (dual purpose 3-product type) is developed and delivered to domestic instant noodle manufacturers. |
2008 | 3-dimensional CAD, 3-dimensional 5-shaft lasers processor introduced. |