Seiko Instruments
Parent Seiko Group Corporation | | |
Website | www.sii.co.jp |
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Seiko Instruments Inc. (セイコーインスツル株式会社, Seikō Insutsuru Kabushiki-gaisha) (SII) is a Japanese company, which develops and commercializes semiconductor, micromechatronics, and precision machining technologies. It is one of the business units of Seiko Group Corporation (f/k/a Seiko Holdings).
Headquartered in the
History
In 1937, Daini Seikosha Co., Ltd. (第二精工舎, Dai-ni-seikōsha), literally the second workshop for manufacturing
On January 26, 2009, Seiko Instruments and Seiko Holdings announced that the two companies will be merged on October 1, 2009 through a share swap. Seiko Instruments became a wholly owned subsidiary of Seiko Holdings on the date that had been announced before.
Seiko had delegated a large portion of the manufacturing in its watch business to SII. Watches manufactured by SII were sold through the Seiko Watch Corporation, a subsidiary of Seiko Holdings Corporation. On April 1, 2020, the company transferred its watch business including its watch manufacturing subsidiaries Morioka Seiko Instruments, Ninohe Tokei Kogyo, Seiko Instruments Singapore, etc. to Seiko Watch.
References
- ISSN 1342-3363.
External links
- (in English) Official website