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A major technological change came in 1950, when the company purchased a chain machine from the U.S. that allowed the automation of the zipper making process. Previously, YKK zippers were made by hand, and hence had an inferior quality compared to automated zippers from abroad. In March 1951, YKK relocated its headquarters to Chūō, Tokyo.
Talon was the first slide fastener, a/k/a zipper, manufacturing company. It was founded in 1893 as the Universal Fastener Company , manufacturing hookless fasteners for shoes. In 1913 it moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania , becoming the first manufacturer of zippers.
YKK Manufacturing and Engineering Centre is a manufacturing plant and a R&D center of YKK AP which is a subsidiary company of YKK Group. It is located in Namerikawa, Toyama (situated between the Japanese Alps and Toyoma Bay), and was opened on October 22, 1992. Main products developed and manufactured there include architectural products such ...
Zipper slider brings together the two sides of teeth. The popular North American term zipper (UK zip, or occasionally zip-fastener) came from the B. F. Goodrich Company in 1923. The company used Gideon Sundbäck's fastener on a new type of rubber boots (or galoshes) and referred to it as the zipper, and the name stuck. The two chief uses of the ...
Companies based in Karachi — the city located in the Karachi District of Sindh Province, Pakistan. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
YKK may refer to: YKK Group, a Japanese group of manufacturing companies, and the world's largest zipper manufacturer; Yekîtîya Komunîstên Kurdistan, a former Kurdish communist group in Turkey; Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, a manga by Hitoshi Ashinano; Kitkatla Water Aerodrome (IATA airport code), Kitkatla, British Columbia, Canada
Dawood Group was founded by Ahmed Dawood. [1] [2]Ahmed Dawood was one of the country's senior industrialists [3] who was by 1933 with his firm the biggest supplier of imported yarn to the textile mills in India. [4]
The Pakistan Machine Tool Factory (PMTF) is a Pakistani manufacturer of power and machine tools based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.It was established in Karachi in 1968, the facility was built for the local manufacture of machine tools under technical cooperation and technology transfer agreements with Oerlikon-Bührle of Switzerland.