Today’s international leader in its field with a product range of more than 5000 high-tech devices and machines started in�1934 with just one single tool: a simple mechanical micrometer.

Once company founder Yehan Numata succeeded in establishing this micrometer – proprietarily designed and manufactured – as a manifold reference product he started broadening the scope of his attention by including other areas of measuring technology.

Over the following years and decades the company evolved to become one of the� leading Japanese manufacturers of devices for length measurement presenting the broadest range of products in the field.

In the early sixties – after successful introduction into the American market – further expansions lead, among other activities in Europe, to the opening of� the European Headquarter in Germany in May of 1968.

Thus the company was positioned in the best possible way to enter a new era of measuring technology: the introduction of electronics gaining ever more importance in the seventies. And just like the mechanical devices the new electronic form measuring instruments, vision measuring systems and coordinate measuring machines carrying the Mitutoyo logo proved most convincing to the customers all over the world.

The company’s leading role in designing and manufacturing innovative products could be ascertained again with the next evolutionary step in the field: the CNC technology.

Today, more than 70 years after the founding of the company, the brand name Mitutoyo not only represents the most extensive range of products for length measuring but also stands for the most important full-range supplier globally operating in this line of business.