Corporate history
| 1961 | Hisashi Takano establishes Toyo Shoji Ltd. in Nagoya City to specialize in the sale of automatic packaging machines. |
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| 1962 | Mr. Takano establishes General Packer Co., Ltd., to develop and manufacture packaging machines. |
| 1964 | General Packer enters the flour ,sugar ,and salt packaging business with the development of the all-purpose GP-105MB pouch forming-filling-sealing machine, which becomes a mainstay model. |
| 1966 | General Packer Sales Co., Ltd., is established through the name change and reorganization of Toyo Shoji , the Company’s sales arm. |
| 1969 | General Packer Sales Co., Ltd., absorbs General Packer Co., Ltd., and assumes the latter’s name, capitalized at \10 million. The head office moves to its current location. |
| 1975 | General Packer enters the dried bonito flake packaging business with the development of the GP-VG-50, a fully automatic gas-flushing-type packaging machine. |
| 1976 | The company enters the polished-rice packaging business with the development of the GP-R2, the industry’s first fully automated polished-rice packaging machine. |
| 1977 | General Packer commercializes its “Techno Pack System”, a gas-flushing method developed through R&D on new gas-flushing technologies. The new head office building is completed at the present site. |
| 1978 | The Company develops the GP-GS series, a “double rotary type” gas-flushing-type packaging machine with high gas substitution efficiency, using the gas-flushing method. |
| 1985 | The Tokyo Sales Branch is established in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. |
| 1989 | New company building completed adjacent to main plant. East No.1 plant also constructed nearby. |
| 1996 | The System Sales Department is established, allowing the Company to accept orders for packaging systems. The SS-50 series of bag accumulation-cartoning machines is also developed. |
| 1997 | Capital increased to \20 million in August and \50 million in December. Employee shareholder system set up. |
| 1998 | Capital increased to \155 million. East No.2 plant constructed next to East No.1 plant. |
| 2001 | The Planning & Development Department is set up within Development Division. |
| 2002 | The GP-GS series of gas-flushing-type packaging machines earns an award for excellence from the Japan Food Journal. |
| 2003 | The Company is listed in the JASDAQ market. |
| 2004 | New south building is completed next to the main plant on the south. |
| 2007 | New plant (East building) building completed adjacent to main plant. |
| 2011 | The company is listed on the Second Section of the Nagoya Stock Exchange. |
| 2012 | Capital and business alliance with YE DATA INC. (The alliance is succeeded by Food & Agri Mechatro Solution Inc. in 2018) Acquired ISO 9001 accreditation. |
| 2015 | The Shanghai Representative Office is established in China. |
| 2016 | General Packer China Co., LTD. is established in Changshu, Jiangsu, China. Osa Machinery Co., LTD. becomes a subsidiary upon acquisition of all of its shares. |
| 2019 | The Shanghai Representative Office is promoted to the Shanghai branch of General Packer China CO., Ltd. |
| 2020 | GPJ Packer Co., Ltd. is established as a joint venture company in Nantong, Jiangsu, China. |
| 2021 | General Packer America Corporation is established in Chicago, Illinois, USA. |
| 2022 | A new plant extension is added in the south building adjacent to the head office. |
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