Business history
| 1951 | Hideo Tahara establishes an iron factory in Tokyo. |
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| 1961 | The company is incorporated as Tahara Iron Works Co., Ltd. |
| 1967 | The office and factory are moved to the present site. |
| 1969 | The company is reorganized as Tahara Engineering Co., Ltd. and wholly owned by Kanematsu Corp. with a capital of 20,000,000yen. |
| 1971 | Osaka Office is established. |
| 1972 | Nagoya Office is established. |
| 1974 | Merges with Shoei Industrial Machinery Ltd. and changes its name to Tahara-Shoei Engineering Ltd. |
| 1984 | Expands the assembly factory. |
| 1988 | Increases the capital to 50,000,000yen. |
| 1989 | Changes its name to Tahara Machinery Ltd. |
| 1995 | Establishes comprehensive business alliance with a German company Battenfeld-Fischer. |
| 2000 | Hitachi Zosen Corporation becomes the shareholder. |
| 2002 | Constructs the second assembly factory. |
| 2006 | The Japan Steel Works, LTD. becomes the shareholder. |
| 2010 | Tahara signs a licensing agreement with an American company Graham Packaging Company L.P. |
Product history
| 1961 | Develops first blow molding machine, TBMA (parison lift type) series and introduces to the market. (Following is a manufacturing-and-selling inaugural year of series.) |
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| 1967 | TBA (accumulator type) series |
| 1968 | KN (bag inbox type), TM (TMW) series |
| 1969 | TA, TK series/Automatic trimming No. 1 |
| 1970 | TP (neck calibrator type), TKV, TSE, TV, TG series/Automatic trimming No. 2 |
| 1972 | H series |
| 1979 | TPF, TKVF series (succeeding model of TP, TKV)/TYC-28 parison controller |
| 1981 | BU (BUW) (locking tie bar type) series |
| 1984 | BH(BHW) series(making machine for small products of BU series), |
| 1987 | TL (TLW) (tie bar less) series, TZ (TZW) series (making machine for cost cut of BH series), TS (hot parison type stretch blow molding machine) series/ In Mold Labeller No.1 |
| 1988 | KTR (rotary-molding machine) series |
| 1994 | Develops first electric blow molding machine and introduces to the market. MSE, MB series |
| 1997 | Develops first electric stretch blow molding machine and introduces to the market. CSB (cold parison type stretch blow molding machine)series |
| 2002 | Develops first electric multi-layer blow molding machine and introduces to the market. |
| 2005 | Develops first tandem type electric blow molding machine and introduces to the market. MQD series |
| 2011 | The total production number of electric multi-layer blow molding machines breaks through 100 sets. |
| 2013 | The total production number of electric blow molding machines breaks through 800 sets. |