- 1911
Established Tatsuno Manufacturing
- 1919
Produced the first gasoline dispenser in Japan
- 1928
Changed the company name to Tokyo Tatsuno Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- 1939
Delivered Japan’s first metering dispenser (the predecessor of today’s automatic dispensers) to Air Corps
- 1947
Completed clock-face gasoline dispenser
- 1958
Completed Model 58-P, an automated gasoline dispenser with the petrol scale that automatically returned to zero
- 1962
Established a subsidiary company Nippon Engineer Service which specialized at after-sales service, and created a directly-operating service network with 49 offices all around Japan
- 1963
Completed and launched the world’s first ceiling-suspended overhead gasoline dispenser, Tatsuno’s patented Non-space dispenser
- 1964
Launched Model 64 fixed gasoline dispenser
Constructed Yokohama Plant - 1968
Changed the company’s name to Tokyo Tatsuno Co., Ltd.
- 1970
Launched Punch Writer, the first POS terminal in the gas station industry
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Service station display at the world exhibition in Osaka.
- 1978
Launched the self-service tall-type dispenser (for foreign markets)
- 1980
Launched Micom Sunny with electronic counter
- 1985
Launched the world’s first compact IC card reader/writer
- 1986
Launched the New Sunny Alpha Series, a robotic fully operated gasoline dispenser
- 1989
Received the Kanagawa Engineering Development Award for the robotic fuel dispenser
- 1990
Launched a gasoline dispenser with fuel contamination protection
- 1992
Changed the company’s name to Tatsuno Mechatronics Co., Ltd.
- 1995
Yokohama Plant received ISO9001 certification
- 1996
Received ISO9001 for fixed gasoline dispensers
- 1997
Yokohama Plant was certified as the Designated Manufacturing Business Operator for LPG and gasoline dispensers
- 2000
Received The Japan Petroleum Institute Award for Technological Progress for the Contamination protection system
- 2001
Launched the New Multi/New Alpha, a dispenser which allowed an installation of an outdoor POS apparatus
- 2002
Developed Japan’s first retail hydrogen dispenser for fuel cell vehicles
Installed the dispenser at JHFC Yokohama Tsurumi Station - 2004
Yokohama Plant received ISO14001 certification
- 2005
Launched NewMulti-X for self service
- 2006
Established Tatsuno India Private Limited.
- 2010
Launched the vapor recovery system Ecostage L100 intended for fuel unloading
- 2011
Celebration of 100th anniversary
- 2012
Merged Tatsuno Mechatronics Co., Ltd. and Nippon Engineer Service and changed the name to Tatsuno Corporation Co., Ltd.
- 2013
Launched the world’s first fuel dispenser with a vapor recovery system Sunny NX D70