Seiko Instruments

Seiko Instruments
legal form	Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
founding	September 7, 1937
Seat	Mihama-ku, Chiba
management	Katsumi Yamamura ( daihyō-torishimariyaku-kaichō , Chairman), Masafumi Shimbo ( daihyō-torishimariyaku-shachō , President)
Number of employees	10,986 (as of February 2009)
sales	199.5 billion yen (as of 2008, 1.263 billion €)
Branch	Electronics , watch industry
Website	www.sii.co.jp

Seiko Instruments KK ( Japanese セイコーインスツル株式会社 , Seikō Insutsuru Kabushiki-gaisha , Eng. Seiko Instruments Inc. , SII for short ) is a Japanese electronics company , as well as watch and clockwork manufacturer . The company is a 100% subsidiary of the Seiko holding company.

Business sectors are mechatronics (e.g. for watches, hard drives , thermal printers ), electronic components (e.g. CMOS - ICs , quartz crystals, batteries, LCDs), system applications (e.g. order entry systems , electronic dictionaries, Color printer), scientific instruments (e.g. measuring and analysis instruments, radiation detectors), as well as others (e.g. network servers).

history

Kintaro Hattori founded Kintaro Hattori & Co., Ltd in 1881 and Seikosha Co., Ltd. was established in 1891 . (Predecessor of Seiko Clock Inc. and Seiko Precision Inc.) to produce clocks there.

The company was founded as KK Daini Seikōsha ( 株式会社第二精工舎 , literally: "2. Seikōsha") in 1937 as a spin-off of watch production from Seikōsha , the manufacturing company of the Seiko Group.

In 1959, the Suwa plant ( 諏訪工場 , Suwa kōjō ) was spun off as an independent company and merged with YK Daiwa Kōgyō ( 有限会社大和工業 , Yūgen-gaisha Daiwa Kōgyō , English Daiwa Kogyo, Ltd. ) to form KK Suwa Seikōsha ( 株式会社諏訪精工舎 , Kabushiki-gaisha Suwa Seikōsha ), today's Epson .

1983 was renamed the KK Daini Seikosha in Seiko Denshi Kogyo KK ( セイコー電子工業株式会社 , dt. "Seiko Electronics Industry") and 1997 Seiko Instruments KK ( セイコーインスツルメンツ株式会社, Seiko Insutsurumentsu Kabushiki-gaisha ), where in 2004 the Japanese Name was shortened to today's variant while retaining the English name.

Head Office (Feb 20, 2012)

Watch industry

Seiko Instruments Inc. is the manufacturer of movements for Seiko Holding. The company also produces wristwatches, which are sold under its own brands.