Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd. designs, develops, produces, and sells various types of packaging machines, tobacco machines, solid waste baling machines, and automatic laborsaving machines and systems in Japan and internationally. It offers confectionary and gift wrapping, vertical form-fill-seal machines, powder filling, tobacco, special item wrapping, and film overwrapping machines; overwrapping machines for paper products; baling systems; cartoners; cardboard caser; line systems; and vibrating conveyors. The company was formerly known as Shimane Manufacturing Co. and changed its name to Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd. in 1949. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.