DIGI Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary in November 2025
DIGI celebrated its 100th anniversary in November 2025.
Since developing the world’s first “Teraoka Automatic Spring Scale”* in 1925, the company has expanded its business into the development, manufacturing, and sales of products and solutions across various industries. Throughout its history, DIGI has continuously introduced numerous world-first and industry-first innovations that have contributed to customers in diverse fields.
On this special occasion, we would like to express our deepest gratitude for the continued business and support we have received.
* Commercial automatic scale using the spring principle in a multi-rotation mechanism.
In 1925, the founder, Toyoharu Teraoka, developed the world’s first “Teraoka Automatic Spring Scale.”
At a time when traditional balance-beam scales with weights were the norm, this revolutionary scale - whose needle instantly indicated the correct weight simply by placing an item on the weighing platform - brought surprise and innovation to merchants everywhere.
In addition, DIGI introduced a unique sales approach: the “daily installment payment system,” which allowed merchants, particularly in the food retail business who operated on daily cash flow, to purchase products more easily.
Thanks to its user-friendliness and reliability, the “Teraoka Automatic Spring Scale” soon became widely accepted as “the new standard in weighing.”
We are also pleased to announce the launch of our special 100th anniversary website:
The 100th anniversary logo / Special 100th anniversary website
On this site, visitors can follow the story of DIGI’s evolution - beginning with the founder Toyoharu Teraoka’s journey to the United States - through an engaging narrative. It also introduces seven particularly notable stories from our history, presented in manga (comic) format. In addition, the site features manga illustrations depicting real-world applications of our products and solutions across our four core business domains: “Retail,” “Food Industry” “Logistics” and “Hospitality” - as well as the “Service & Cloud” infrastructure that supports them.
Guided by our desire to continually “inspire and excite our customers,” DIGI has consistently pursued technological innovation to solve on-site challenges and create new standards in the marketplace.
Today, under our medium- to long-term vision “Grow with Green,” we are committed to contributing to a sustainable society by offering solutions that are environmentally friendly, reduce the burden on workers, and promote the growth of our customers’ businesses.
By turning environmental and social challenges into drivers of corporate growth, DIGI will continue to create new standards for the next 100 years.