1980
Founded Mitutoyo (U.K.)Ltd. in Andover, England.
Founded Mitutoyo Mexicana S.A. de C.V. in Mexico City.
Shiwa Factory, sub-factory of Hiroshima Plant, started operation.
Constructed MTI Engeneering Corporation (present Mitutoyo America Corporation Los Angels Factory) in Los Angeis. U.S.A.
Constructed Yasuura Factory at Yasuura-cho, Kamo-gun, Hiroshima prefecture.

1981
Founded Sampo Nederland B.V. (present Mitutoyo Nederland B.V.) in the Netherlands.
Constructed Lerma Factory in Lerma City, Mexico.
Founded Mitutoyo Scandinavia AB.

1982
Constructed and started operation of Kiyohara Plant at Kiyohara district in Utsunomiya as a dedicated factory for linear scales.
Installed the Microcord Division for development and production of CMMs.
Installed Measurement Technology Research Laboratory.
Founded Mitutoyo Belgium N.V.

Yehan Numata was inaugurated as the Executive Advisor, Toshihide Numata as the chairman of the board of directors and Yoshiteru Numata as the president.
Founded System Technology Institute (STI).
Constructed Miyazaki Plant (dedicated to gauge block production) at Tano-cho of Miyazaki prefecture and succeeded in production from Numata Research Laboratory.

1986
Founded Mitutoyo France S.A.R.L.

1987
Founded Mitutoyo Taiwan Co.,Ltd. in Taipei, Taiwan.
Founded Mitutoyo Italiana S.R.L.
Constructed DRO Factory in Plymouth, Michigan, U.S.A. for the production of digital scales.
Renamed to Mitutoyo Corporation, and merged Mitutoyo Trade Corporation.
Installed Sales Department.
Constructed and started operation of Shiwa Plant in Higashi-Hiroshima as a dedicated factory for micrometers.
Renamed Hiroshima Factory as Kure Plant and made a dedicated factory for optical measuring machines and form measuring machines.
Installed Numata Memorial Hall as one of the activities to mark 50th anniversary.

1988
Founded Mitutoyo Schweiz AG in Zurich, Swizerland.
Founded Mitutoyo (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
Restructured the old Chicago Office as OæfHara Factory used for consistent production of inch-system dial indicators.

1989
Installed Mitutoyo Museum as an industrial museum of precision measuring equipment.

1980
Commenced production of Digimatic Height Gages "HD Series".










1981
Commenced production of Digimatic indicators "ID Series".







1983
Commenced production of Digimatic calipers "CD Series".
Commenced production of Laser Scan Micrometers.













1987
Commenced production of non-contact CMMs.

















1988
Developed and started production of ceramic gauge block.
Developed a length measuring encoder called "Laser Holoscale".



1989
Commenced production of high-accuracy contour and form measuring machines "CBH400 Series".

1990
Constructed Osaka Operation Center at Minami Port, Osaka.
Founded European Research Laboratory in the Netherlands for researching into basic technology of measurement.
Installed Technical Service Department and reinforced the CMMæfs field services.
Constructed Aurora Factory for knock-down field service of CMMs in Illinois, U.S.A.

1991
Constructed Tsukuba Research Laboratory in Tsukuba, Ibaraghi prefecture.

1992
Opened Utsunomiya Operation Center.

1993
Installed Mitutoyo Calibration Centers at Kawasaki, Utsunomiya, and Hiroshima Operations.
Miyazaki Plant, Shiwa Plant, Tool & Gage Plant, Kiyohara Plant, and Telford Factoryacquired ISO9002 registration.
Miyazaki Plant and Tsukuba Calibration Center became approved undertakers for laser of length standards.

1994
Installed Mitutoyo Korea Service Corporation in Seoul, South Korea.
Microcord Plant, Calibration Laboratories in Chicago and Los Angeles acquired ISO9002 registration.

1995
Ø…Ì\Yoshiteru Numata was inaugurated as the depty-chairman of the board of directors and Norio Takatsuji as the president.
Mizonokuchi Development Center and Kure Plant acquired ISO9001 registration.
Technical Service Department andæASuzano Plant acquired ISO9002 registration.

1996
Opened Koriyama office

1997
Celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founder Yehan Numataæfs birth.
Opened Okayama office Condstucted and satarted operation of Nakatsugawa plant.

1998
Opened Mitutoyo Measuring Instruments in Suzhou in China.
Opned Chiba office.
Celebrated the 30th anniversary of Mitutoyo Germany.

1999
New Gohara Material Plant opened.
Anjo Sales Office was moved to a new location.
Utsunomiya Office was certified ISO 14001 Hiroshima Sales Office was moved to a new location.
Celebrated the 20th anniversary of Mitutoyo Mexico.
Utsunomiya Office ægMitutoyo Museum" opened.
Hiroshima Office acquired ISO14001 registration.
Headquarter and Kawasaki Compound acquired ISO14001 registration.

1991
Developed a roundness measuring machine named "RA600 Series", provided with analysis software running on a personal computer.

1992
Developed an aspheric surface measuring machine named "CV-L246-3D", provided with analysis software running on a personal computer.

1993
Developed an interferometer as the standard for gauge block calibration.





1994
Developed and started production of non-contact CNC vision measurement machine named "Quick Vision Series".
Developed and started production of economy-type CNC CMM "Bright Series".
Commenced production of ABS solar-type Digimatic calipers.

1995
Commenced production of ABS Digimatic Indicators.
Developed a vertically-dual head differential-type gauge block comparetor.

1996
Developed compact roundness measuring machine "RA 114/116".
Developed surface roughness and contour measuring machine "Formtracer SV-C600".
Developed vision measuring machine "Quick Scope QS series".
Multi-joint typed CMM Digitizer "Spin arm".

1997
CMM with temperature compensation function: "FALCIO Series" provided with analysis software running on a personal computer.

1998
Horizontal CNC CMM for in-line measurement: "MACH Series"
Ulera-high accuracy CNC CMM: "LEGEX"

1999
Portable surface roughness tester: Surftest "SJ-301",
Non-contact laser displacement gage: Laser Indicator "LI-4030N/5030T"