{"id":3408,"date":"2016-07-22T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/en\/?page_id=3408"},"modified":"2020-07-08T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:56:06","slug":"history-of-sokkia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/ueber-glm-2\/history-of-sokkia\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Sokkia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>History of Sokkia<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-content\/uploads\/instrument_winkelmessung.png\" alt=\"instrument_winkelmessung\" width=\"199\" height=\"152\"><\/h1>\n<div class=\"rex-cnt-slc-otp\">\n<div class=\"rex-cnt-slc-otp2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<p>Sokkia has been manufacturing measuring and surveying instruments since 1920 (levels, construction lasers, total stations, and GNSS).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sokkia is founded in 1920 in Japan (Tokyo) under the name Sokkisha.<\/li>\n<li>In 1934, Sokkia (Sokkisha) is converted to a company with limited liability.<\/li>\n<li>In 1943, Sokkia (Sokkisha) is converted to a corporation.<\/li>\n<li>The company Oberl\u00e4nder starts to sell Sokkia (Sokkisha) products in Germany in 1976.<\/li>\n<li>A Sokkia (Sokkisha) branch is established in Europe (Netherlands) between 1982 and 1985.<\/li>\n<li>A Sokkia (Sokkisha) branch is established in Germany in the spring of 1988.<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration between Sokkia (Sokkisha) and GLM begins in 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Sokkisha is renamed Sokkia on January 1, 1992. This is to be an outward sign of an international company.<\/li>\n<li>IVK-Sokkia is founded in Cologne in 2003.&nbsp; It assumes the business areas of Sokkia Germany.<\/li>\n<li>In 2006, Sokkia and GLM and sign a cooperation agreement. GLM software is represented worldwide since then.<\/li>\n<li>Topcon and Sokkia merge in 2008.<\/li>\n<li>IVK-Sokkia is dissolved in 2009. GLM takes over the distribution of total stations and levels. HKL takes over the distribution of rotation lasers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-958 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdf-icon.png\" alt=\"Download PDF\" width=\"38\" height=\"42\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"section\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-content\/uploads\/history_sokkisha.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nHistory Sokkia Pirnt (69 kB)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of Sokkia Sokkia has been manufacturing measuring and surveying instruments since 1920 (levels, construction lasers, total stations, and GNSS). Sokkia is founded in 1920 in Japan (Tokyo) under the name Sokkisha. In 1934, Sokkia (Sokkisha) is converted to a company with limited liability. In 1943, Sokkia (Sokkisha) is converted to a corporation. The company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3414,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_submenu.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3408\/revisions\/5520"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glm-laser.com\/glm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}