To meet the machining demand of the fast growing Asia market, the world headquarters of Makino Milling Machine Company, Makino Asia was set up to fill the need of an Asian headquarters to better manage the Asia business and to serve their customers in the region more effectively. Due to the strategic position of Singapore geographically and economically within Asia, Makino Tokyo chose Singapore as its Asia headquarter and set up Makino Asia Pte Ltd to cover the China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore market.