Over 30 years of efficiency

The Creform system has helped companies worldwide maximize space and support lean manufacturing environments. Here's how it started.

Over 30 years ago, Yazaki Industrial Chemical Co., Ltd., invented the Creform system in Japan. The unique, adaptive material handling system spread quickly among the manufacturing operations of companies throughout the Pacific Rim.

In 1991, Yazaki purchased Textube Corporation to support the Creform system in North America and Europe. Textube was founded in Stamford, Connecticut in 1955 and relocated to Upstate South Carolina in 1968, where the company serviced the textile industry with plastic cones, tubes and cores for spun staple yarn.

In 1999, Textube built a 40,000-square-foot manufacturing and support facility directly beside its North American headquarters in Greer, South Carolina. This state-of-the-art facility is the heart and soul of North American production for the Creform system.

In 1999, to support the Creform system in Europe, Textube and Yazaki opened Creform Technik GmbH, located in central Germany.

In 2003, Textube purchased Creform LogisTech of Wixom, MI. With this addition, Creform is supported in North America by offices in South Carolina and Michigan.