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History

1908

Kijyuro Nonaka founded Nonaka Manufacturing company.
His son Kiichi Nonaka changed the name of the company to Nonaka Machine Manufacturing and began producing thread winding systems for Sewing machine. At the same time, he aquwired the patents for numerous other machine parts of Machine system.

Kiichi Nonaka
1944

Company name changed to Nonaka Seisakujyo( Nonaka Mfg.Co.,Ltd) and registered as Cooporation.

1972

1972 A friend of the President , working as a Taylor requested Nonaka to make soundless punch because his tool makes too much noise.
In order to meet the customer( Taylor) , we have started to develop the Screwpunch.

1976

1976 Sucecessful development of a tool which use torque force instead ofhaving to strike the head of hammer.
This tool was named the “Screwpunch” because it use revolving force to punch a hole.
The same year, it went into commercial manufacture.

Pamphlet at that time
1977

The New Patent was acquired. Patent No.12169112
At this time the company also applied “Screwpunch“ to be registered as a brand name but was rejected.
Since then, the tool has commonly become known as the Screwpunch, althogh this was not a registered brand name.

1992

1992 As a result of the expiration of the term of the patent,many people began to make forgeries

Since 1992

Screwpunch has proved very popular since it’s invention, and is used as tool for sewing ,handcraft, leathercraft and papercraft . Today, many pople use this tool in the popular hobby of scrapbooking.

Company Profile

Name

Nonaka Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Address

〒130-0011
1-1-8 Ishihara, Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan

TEL

+81–3-3622-2526

FAX

+81–3-3623-9619

President

Kiyoshi Nonaka

Authorized Capital

10 Million Yen.