Corporate Information
Introduction of our history and business
Mase Tofu Machine, one of the successful tofu and soymilk machine manufacturers in Japan, can offer you all-round solutions from planning, designing, production, construction to marketing. Our products and services are highly valued by both domestic and overseas customers. We have expanded our business to Los Angeles, USA and other regions throughout the world.
- Company
- Mase Tofu Machine Company Limited
- Location of office
- 75-846 Fujishima-cho Chozuka
Nisshin-city, Aichi-prefecture
470-0102 JAPAN
Tel: +81-561-74-0533, Fax: +81-561-73-8138 - Capital
- 20 million yen
- Founded
- August 1945
- Established
- September 1979
- Number of employees
- 45(As of May 2024)
- Bank of account:
- Juroku Bank Ltd.
Aichi Bank Ltd.
Seto Shinkin Bank Ltd. - Business
- Manufacturing and distribution of tofu and soymilk machinery and equipment
- Patent
- Fried tofu forming box, continuous cooker “Super Steam Line M-II”, batch cooker “Soy-Boy”, consecutive pressing machine “High Press”, automatic curding machine “Mighty-Yoru III”, automatic tofu cutting and packaging machine “TOPIA”, and others.
- Board member
- President and CEO:Yumiko Mase
Director:Kenji Oshima, Takako Mase
Corporate History
- Aug 1945
- First president Junpei Mase opens Mase steel metal factory in Nagoya, Aichi and starts manufacturing forming boxes for fried tofu from Duralumin, which is used for airplanes, and also tofu cases and small water tanks for tofu retailers.
- Aug 1964
- Opens a new factory in another part of Nagoya.
- Sep 1976
- Starts selling tofu manufacturing machines.
- Jul 1979
- Releases continuous soymilk cooker “Super Steam Line“.
- Sep 1979
- Establishes Mase Steel Metal Factory Co., Ltd. Kohei Mase becomes the president.
- 1981
- Starts construction of a complete production line.
- Mar 1984
- Releases automatic curding machine “Mighty-Yoru III“ (for 100% Nigari (bittern) silken/hard/fried tofu).
- Apr 1985
- Opens a new factory in Nisshin, Aichi.
- Jan 1986
- Releases automatic tofu cutter “Cut Ace“.
- Sep 1989
- Expands the factory premises.
- Dec 1989
- Increases capital to 10 million yen.
- Mar 1990
- Develops and releases automatic tofu cutting and casing machine “TOPIA“.
- Mar 1992
- Develops and releases continuous soymilk cooker “Super Steam Line II“.
- Mar 1995
- Releases new soymilk squeezer “Shibori Ace“.
- Mar 1996
- Develops and releases silken tofu curding machine “Silk Hope“ (for 100% Nigari (bittern) tofu).
- Sep 1996
- Changes its company name to Mase Tofu Machine Co., Ltd. and increases capital to 20 million yen.
- Sep 1997
- Develops and releases cooker “Soy-Boy“.
- May 2000
- Develops and releases “NC Line”, a full automated line with NC (non-cloth) forming boxes .
- Sep 2001
- Develops and releases compact soymilk plant “Mini-Star“.
- Mar 2009
- Establishes Mase China.
- Feb 2011
- Installs the full-automatic tofu production line in an oil refinery manufacturer in Heilongjiang, China, cooperating with the subsidiary company,
- Aug 2011
- Operates a soy milk production line in the oil refinery manufacturer in Heilongjiang, China, collaborating with a subsidiary company.
- Feb 2016
- Yumiko Mase becomes the president and CEO, Kohei Mase becomes the chairman of board of directors.
- May 2020
- Installs a heat sterilization machine for a pressed ham manufacturing factory.
- Feb 2022
- Installs an automatic washing system for bean sprout cultivation containers at a major bean sprout manufacturing factory.
- Sep 2022
- Introduces a CE-marked small soymilk plant, “Mini-Star”.
- Dec 2022
- Installs a packed rice production line for a Chinese company.
- Apr 2024
- Builds a new factory.