Orii & Mec Corporation Company History

Orii & Mec Corporation

Since the 2000 merger, the Orii and Mec machinery lines have been engineered at the Orii & Mec Corporation plants in Japan and sold/serviced through branch offices all over the world. Orii & Mec Corporation is owned by Namura Shipbuilding Company Co., Ltd. of Japan, which is a publicly traded stock on the Osaka Securities Exchange.

Orii Automatic Equipment Manufacturing Company

The Orii Automatic Equipment Manufacturing Company was founded by Masaru Orii in 1962 in Tokyo, Japan after eight years of development on a private basis. In 1965, the company introduced the nation's first press room robot. The robot was called the Auto Arm OA-4, and was used to transfer work pieces from a magazine to a press die, operating with a high speed of 200 times per minute. The company continued to grow, producing a wide variety of automation equipment, including robots, coil handling systems, straightener/feeders and leveling equipment.

MEC Machinery Co., Ltd.

Matsuoka Engineering Co. Ltd. was founded in Japan in 1972 by Takeji Matsuoka, who started a business to develop, manufacture and sell spring-forming machines and related devices and tools. In 1985, the company changed the name to MEC Machinery Co., Ltd. Today, MEC offers a variety of spring making machinery, including CNC multi-axis spring formers, CNC coiling machines for ultra-fine wire, NC spring formers, extension spring machines and torsion spring machines.