Jatco

JATCO Ltd (Japanese: ジヤトコ株式会社 , Hepburn:

JATCO Ltd
Jatoko Kabushiki-gaisha), abbreviated from "Japan
Automatic Transmission COmpany", is a company that
manufactures automatic transmissions for automobiles.
Type Unlisted public company
(K.K.)
Contents Industry Automotive

History Founded 1970

See also Headquarters Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan

References Area served Worldwide

External links Key people Teruaki Nakatsuka,

(CEO)
Revenue ¥752.1 billion (2015)[1]
History ¥740.1 billion (2014)[1]
Owners Nissan (75%)
In August 1943, Nissan established an aircraft engine Mitsubishi Motors (15%)
production plant in the town of Yoshiwara, Shizuoka. After Suzuki (10%)
World War II, this plant began producing components for the
production of Nissan automobiles. In January 1970, Nissan Number of 14,300 (2017)[2]
established a joint venture with Toyo Kogyo (Mazda) and employees
Ford Motor Company named Japan Automatic Transmission Website www.jatco.co.jp (https://
Co., Ltd. This company changed its name to JATCO www.jatco.co.jp/)
Corporation in October 1989. Nissan spun off its AT/CVT
(automatic transmission/continuously variable transmission) development divisions and its Fuji
manufacturing plant into a subsidiary called TransTechnology, Ltd in June 1999.[3] Four months later,
TransTechnology Ltd and JATCO Corporation merged to form JATCO TransTechnology Ltd.

In October 2001, as part of its restructuring, Mitsubishi Motors agreed to merge its transmission division
with Jatco TransTechnology Ltd.[4][5] Nissan and Mitsubishi equity holdings in JATCO after the share
exchange stood at 82% and 18%, respectively.

JATCO TransTechnology Ltd changed its name to JATCO Ltd in April 2002.

Overseas subsidiaries were established in Mexico (April 2003), France (October 2003) and Korea (May
2004).

While it was the transmission manufacturing division of Nissan it partnered with Mazda, and thus Jatco had
long been supplying Nissan, Mazda, Subaru, Isuzu, Suzuki, BMW, Volkswagen, MG Rover Group and
Land Rover. However, once it was independent, Jatco began supplying other automakers:

December 1999 — Hyundai Motor Company

January 2001 — Jaguar Cars
December 2001 — London Taxis International
January 2002 — Ford Europe
 April 2002 — Renault Samsung Motors
April 2002 — Ford Lio Ho
April 2004 — Changan Ford
December 2005 — Chrysler Group U.S.A.
October 2006 - Renault

JATCO became one of the largest suppliers of CVTs,[6] and products from nearly every auto maker have
used Jatco transmissions, with major exceptions of Honda Motor Company, who makes their own
transmissions, and Toyota Motor Company, who has always used transmissions made by their Aisin
subsidiary. GM continues to produce a majority of its transmissions through GM Powertrain, an outgrowth
of Hydramatic.

As of March 2015, JATCO is 75% owned by Nissan, 15% owned by Mitsubishi Motors, and 10% owned
by Suzuki.[2]

In 2012, Jatco became a supplier of gearboxes in Russia for AvtoVAZ.[7] In 2019, Ministry of Industry and
Trade (Russia) announced plans to open Jatco production in Tolyatti.[8] However, the supply of gearboxes
was stopped after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which, in tandem with the failure of Russian
companies to develop an analogue for the last 10 years, left AvtoVAZ without any models with an
automatic gearbox.[9]

See also
List of Jatco transmissions

References
1. "JATCO Corporate Profile 2016" (https://www.jatco.co.jp/wp-jatco/wp-content/themes/JATC
O_v1.1/assets/document/jatco_corporate_e.pdf) (PDF). JATCO Ltd. 1 July 2016.
2. "Corporate Information" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150107222018/http://www.jatco.co.j
p/ENGLISH/company/profile.html). Archived from the original (http://www.jatco.co.jp/ENGLIS
H/company/profile.html) on 2015-01-07.
3. "Agreement Reached for Merger Between TransTechnology and JATCO, Affiliates of Nissan
Motor Co., Ltd" (http://www.nissan-global.com/GCC/Japan/NEWS/19990803_0e.html)
(Press release). Nissan Motor (Japan). Aug 3, 1999.
4. "MMC to Spin off AT and CVT Operations into New Company. Integrate Operations with
JATCO TransTechnology" (http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/en/corporate/pressrelease/cor
porate/detail435.html) (Press release). Mitsubishi Motors. Oct 4, 2011.
5. Mitsubishi, Nissan To Merge Transmission Businesses Autoparts Report Oct 8 2001
6. "100 Cool Things" (http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070416/SUB/70
412027). Automotive News. Apr 16, 2007.
7. AvtoVAZ begins to produce cars with automatic transmission (https://www.vedomosti.ru/new
spaper/articles/2012/03/30/lada_s_avtomatom)
8. In Russia, will establish the production of Japanese variators Jatco (https://versiya.info/avto/
101746)
9. "Импортозамещения не произошло" (https://istories.media/investigations/2022/04/29/kak-l
ada-ostalas-bez-korobki-avtomata/). istories.media (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-06-19.
External links
Jatco Japanese site (http://www.jatco.co.jp)
Jatco English site (https://www.jatco.co.jp/english/)
Jatco Russian site (https://www.jatco.su)
Jatco China site (http://www.jatcochina.com)

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