

For instance, it began producing Cline pianos for Cline Piano Company of Belmont, California in 1992 and began producing Knabe pianos for Music Systems Research of Sacaramento, California in the late 1990s. The company also produces pianos for other companies. : 3–1 Young Chang reported sales in the United States, China, Canada, Korea and the European Union under its own brand. : E–8Īs of the late 1990s, Young Chang, at the time known as Young Chang Akki Company, : 3–1 was among the largest of the world's manufacturers of pianos, alongside Samick, Yamaha and Kawai, : xiii and one of five multinationals producing pianos. The company's Tianjin manufacturing site is run through subsidiary Tianjin Young Chang Akki Company, Limited, while the Tacoma sawmill is managed through subsidiary Young Chang America Timber, Incorporated. The company also maintained a research and development facility in Waltham, Massachusetts. Piano manufacturing took place in plants in Seoul and Incheon, South Korea, both established in 1964, and Tianjin, China, established in 1995.

The sawmill was located in Tacoma, Washington and was established in 1991. Young Chang had four manufacturing facilities as of 1999, three producing pianos and the fourth a sawmill producing wood for export from the United States.
