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Nov. 2005
KTI Corporation established — Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
(Main business: system design, procurement of machined parts from China)
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2007
KTI Semiconductor Manufacturing Machine Co., Ltd established — Suzhou, China
Started business with Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd (component parts procurement: gears, gearboxes, shafts, etc.)
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2008
Started business with Dainippon Screen Co., Ltd (parts for semiconductor manufacturing equipment) and with Shibaura Mechatronics Co., Ltd (OEM of laminating and thermo-compression bonding equipment for LCD manufacturing).
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2009
Obtained ISO 9001:2000 quality management and ISO 14001:2000 environmental management certification. Started business with Panasonic Refrigeration (Wuxi), supplying self-developed compressor automatic assembly lines, and with DENSO Co., Ltd, providing automated line equipment for engine plug production at the Wuxi plant.
☆ Dr. Jianping Jing was elected as an Overseas High-Level Professional Talent in China.
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2010
Started business with SONY Chemical Co., Ltd — supplied the industry's first "Vacuum Film-to-Film High-Precision Laminating System" (©KTI Patent). Started business with Toyota Group companies, providing design, manufacturing and installation of gantry loaders for TNGA engine plants (Changchun, Tianjin, Guangzhou). Automated production equipment supplied to numerous consumer electronics manufacturers in China (TCL, Midea, Jinlong Machinery, etc.).
☆ Suzhou KTI awarded as a Suzhou City Hi-Tech Enterprise; KTI represented Chinese companies at the Japan–China–Korea Yellow Sea Rim Economic Cooperation Forum (Kitakyushu).
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2011
Started business with ASMO (Tianjin), providing automotive small-motor production lines. Supplied a small-motor production line to NIDEC (Dalian), including KTI's "Automatic Insulator Inserting Machine" (©KTI Patent).
☆ Suzhou City Hi-Tech Enterprise award and Jiangsu Province Outstanding Private Enterprise award. Hosted the
4th IWACIII international conference (Suzhou, China) with Dr. Jing as conference chairman.
KTI China donated JPY 1 million to the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai for East Japan earthquake relief.
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2012
Began providing equipment under the KTI concept of standardisation, modularity, flexibility and intelligence — compressor automatic assembly lines and automatic production lines for microwave-oven transformers, among others.
☆ Awarded as a Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Enterprise.
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2013
December: KTI Intelligent Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd established — Nantong, China
Nantong KTI's processing plant and new assembly plant went into operation.
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2015
Started design and manufacture of a series of process equipment for the PCBA production process, aimed at the unmanned smart factory. Standardised equipment such as PCB board dividers (©KTI Patent), flash memory writers and conveyor systems installed in numerous customer plants for the DIP process.
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2016
Certified as a "DENSO Robotics Service" site.
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2017
Zhuhai KTI Intelligent Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd established — Hengqin, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
The "KTI-UESTC Intelligent Manufacturing Joint Lab" was established and accredited as a Sichuan Intelligent Manufacturing International Cooperation Base. Developed the "High-Precision Automatic Multi-Film Laminating System" for hydrogen sensor production (©KTI Patent), exported to a customer's plant in Japan.
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2018
☆ Dr. Jianping Jing received the Venture Innovation Award from Tokyo Institute of Technology & the Kuramae Industrial Association.
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2023
The Suzhou KTI Technical Centre moved to Hua Xing Hua Industrial Park, Suzhou Industrial Park. Established an office in Hanoi, Vietnam (Quận Nam Từ Liêm, Thành phố Hà Nội).
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2024
☆ Developed the "Full-Auto V-Cut Machine" (©KTI Patent) for PCBA processing and installed it in a customer's plant.
