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Nabtesco

Japanese engineering company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ11323984 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nabtesco (ナブテスコ株式会社, Nabutesuko Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese engineering company that specializes in gearboxes, rotors, motors and robotics.

History

The company was founded in 2003 and has several subsidiaries.

In 2010, the company acquired the Business Segment Door Automation division of the Swiss company Dormakaba.

Management

Since 2017, Kazuaki Kotani has served as chairman and Katsuhiro Teramoto has served as president of Nabtesco.

Products

The company manufactures cycloidal drives, railway brakes and platform screen doors.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nabtesco” as japanese engineering company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2010, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Nabtesco, Japanese and engineering can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as japanese engineering company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11323984. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2010 and 2017.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nabtesco” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.