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Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division

Privately Held
yaskawa.com
Automation Machinery Manufacturing700+ employeesFounded 1967🇺🇸 United States

Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division manufactures industrial control and automation products. It offers industrial AC drives, commercial HVAC drives, spindle drives and motors, servo systems and motion controllers, medium voltage switches, breakers, contactors, and low voltage industrial control products. The company’s products are used in air handler, blanking/shearing press, cartoner, clean room fan, compressor, conveyor, cooling tower fan, decanter centrifuge, engine dynamometer, extruder, grinder, injection molding, labeler, lathe, linear flying shear, machine tool, metalforming, mixer, pump, rotary knife, rotary placer, rotary table indexer, screw feeder, synch-belt, vibration feeder, water condenser chiller, and winding applications. It serves automotive, building automation, chemical/petrochemical, converting, food and beverage, machine tool, material handling, metal forming, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastics and rubber, and textile industries. Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives and Motion Division began operations in 1967 and is headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois. Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives and Motion Division operates as a subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric Corporation.

Founded
1967
Employees
700+
Industry
Automation Machinery Manufacturing
Company type
Privately Held
Stock
tyo: 6506
Headquarters
🇺🇸Waukegan, IL (+6)
Specialties
MachineryIndustrial AutomationAdvanced ManufacturingAutomation Machinery ManufacturingHVAC/R
2 / 2
Active markets
Japan · Indonesia
1
New markets
Indonesia
Low
Confidence
mostly early signals
0%
Momentum
vs prior period
17 / 100
Expansion Score
Early
Stages1Exploring1Investing
2 signals · Last 90 days

Global expansion

Live
JapanIndonesia
Stages
ExploringInvestingLandingOperating

Activity pulse

New Partnerships activity — 1 fresh signal just appeared.

Last 90 days
Hiring
1Ended
Exec move
Marketing & PR
0
No activity
Product & Tech
0
No activity
+2more categoriesLocked
3 of 5 shown

Market entry timeline

The order this company entered each market — oldest to newest

1
🇯🇵Japan1st market entered · 2021Advancing
Exploring
2 signalsExploring stage
2
🇮🇩Indonesia2nd market entered · 2026Advancing
Investing
1 signalInvesting stage
Current stageInvestingCommitting resources
Confidence35%Low
Tracking since2021first signal

Recent signals

Partnership🇯🇵 Japan3w ago

Yaskawa Partners with Dale Automation

Exec move🇮🇩 Indonesia2mo ago

Co-Chief Executive Officer

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Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives & Motion Division manufactures industrial control and automation products. It offers industrial AC drives, commercial HVAC drives, spindle drives and motors, servo systems and motion controllers, medium voltage switches, breakers, contactors, and low voltage industrial control products. The company’s products are used in air handler, blanking/shearing press, cartoner, clean room fan, compressor, conveyor, cooling tower fan, decanter centrifuge, engine dynamometer, extruder, grinder, injection molding, labeler, lathe, linear flying shear, machine tool, metalforming, mixer, pump, rotary knife, rotary placer, rotary table indexer, screw feeder, synch-belt, vibration feeder, water condenser chiller, and winding applications. It serves automotive, building automation, chemical/petrochemical, converting, food and beverage, machine tool, material handling, metal forming, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastics and rubber, and textile industries. Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives and Motion Division began operations in 1967 and is headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois. Yaskawa America, Inc. - Drives and Motion Division operates as a subsidiary of Yaskawa Electric Corporation.

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