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Japanese design, global production.
Makita began as an electric-motor repair business in Nagoya in 1915. Its current platform strategy centres batteries, motors and tools engineered to work as one system.
- 1915
Motor repair in Nagoya
Makita begins selling and repairing electric motors.
- 1958
Its first portable electric planer
The company shifts decisively toward power tools.
- Today
One battery platform
Tools, motors and batteries are engineered as a connected system.
