The Nishijin Jacquard Mfg. partnership was established.
Began production and sales of jacquard machines.

Company was renamed the Murata Textile Machine Co., Ltd.

Began production of winders.
Entered the field of spinning machines.

Through a license agreement with Abbott Co. of the United States, began production of automatic cone winders.
Began full-scale involvement in the spinning machine industry.

Began production of automatic cone winder No.10.

Through a license agreement with Maxbo of Sweden, began production of air jet looms.
Entered the field of weaving machines (to 1965).

Jointly developed two-for-one twisters for filament with Teijin Limited.
Entered the field of machinery for manmade fiber.

Through a license agreement with Gilbos NV of Belgium, began production of automatic winder No. 11.

Through a technology-sharing agreement with Neumag of Germany, began production of take-up winders for manmade yarn.

Two-for-one twister exhibited at the 5th ITMA - International Exhibition of Textile Machinery in Basel, Switzerland.

Representative office in Hong Kong opened. Becomes an overseas subsidiary in 1980 (Presently, Murata Machinery (H.K.), Ltd.).

Introduced and began production of dobby.

Kaga Factory began operations.

Murata Do Brasil was established in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Representative office opened in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Murata of America, Inc. (Presently, Murata Machinery USA, Inc.) established in Charlotte, NC, USA.

Individual-spindle type automatic winder No. 7 exhibited at the 1st OTEMAS - Osaka International Textile Machinery Show in Osaka, Japan.

Developed draw texturing machine, No.333-II MACH CRIMPER (with Nip-twister).

Developed air-jet spinning frame, MURATA JET SPINNER (MJS).

Exhibited the automatic winder with Mach Splicer, No.7 Mach Coner, and the draw-texturing machine with Nip Twister, No. 333-II, at ITMA'79 in Hanover, Germany.
 

Representative office opened in Karachi, Pakistan.

Representative office opened in Manchester, UK.

The Murata Jet Spinner (MJS), a revolutionary air-jet spinning machine, and the Bobbin Tray/Link Coner automated transport system for automatic winder and spinning frame exhibited at the 2nd OTEMAS.

Murata Machinery Europe GmbH was established in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Representative office opened in Cairo, Egypt.

Murata Machinery Taiwan Co., Ltd. (presently, Murata Machinery Taiwan, Ltd.) established in Taipei.

Opened a service center in Beijing, China (presently, Murata Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Beijing Branch) opened.

Murata (Thailand) Co., Ltd. was established in Bangkok, Thailand.

Acquired the Wiedemann Division from the Warner & Swasey Company Co., Ltd., U.S.A., and established Murata Wiedemann, Inc. in U.S.A.

Reached cumulative shipments of 2 million spindles of two-for-one twisters.

Murata Machinery Italia S.R.L. (presently, Murata Machinery Europe GmbH Italy Liaison Office) established in Milan, Italy.

Introduced a new unified brand name, "MURATEC".

Representative office opened in Istanbul, Turkey.

Exhibited the Murata Vortex Spinner (MVS), a highly revolutionary the air-vortex spinning frame, at the 6th OTEMAS.

Murata Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in Shanghai, China.

Reached cumulative production of 1 million spindles of the No.7 automatic winder series.

Representative office opened in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Exhibited the No. 21C series automatic winder at the 7th OTEMAS.

Established TMT Machinery, Inc. as a joint venture company with Toray Engineering Co., Ltd. and Teijin Seki Co., Ltd.

Shanghai Factory (Murata Machinery Mfg. (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.) began operations.

Synthetic fiber machinery business completely transferred to TMT Machinery.

The arrange winder won the first Monozukuri Nippon Grand Award Prime Minister's Award.

Murata Machinery India Private Ltd. established in India.

Reached cumulative shipments of 1,000 machines of VORTEX spinning machine.