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Makita bought Panasonic's tools: can you still get EY spares?

Sadaf Masood

Yes, for now. Makita's announcement of 1 September, the day Makita Industrial Tools Corporation began trading as the owner of Panasonic Electric Works' power-tool and assembly-tool business, says the arrangements you already use carry on unchanged:

"The provision of products and services, as well as customer support for the acquired business, will continue under the existing framework for the time being."

Makita Corporation, 1 September 2026. Nothing about an EY pulse tool, an EY9L54B pack or a replacement clutch stopped working on that date. What carries no date is "for the time being" — so treat your next order as the one that settles who you are actually buying from, and get four things in writing before you place it.

Four things to get in writing before the next EY order

Ask your distributor by email rather than over the counter, because you want the reply on file when a later order behaves differently.

  1. Who invoices, and who warrants. On an EY tool or spare shipped after 1 September, is the seller Makita Industrial Tools, a Makita sales company, or still Panasonic? The warranty follows the invoice, and a claim is where you would otherwise find out they have parted company.
  2. Lead time in days, per line. Separately for a battery pack and for a mechanical part such as a clutch. A number in days tells you whether the item is on a shelf or on a production schedule; "normal" tells you nothing.
  3. The replacement part number. For each Panasonic part you buy regularly, the Makita number that will supersede it. Ask while both catalogues are still published. Once the Panasonic column is withdrawn, a part with no cross-reference is one you re-identify by photograph.
  4. Who signs the calibration certificate. On a transducerised tool the certificate is what an audit reads. Confirm that the same laboratory still issues it, and under whose name.

Support is listed in five countries

The reason to ask rather than assume is Makita Industrial Tools' own product and support page. It names five: the United States, Germany, China, India and Korea. Four of the five entries are Makita companies. The German one is IMOTEC Montagetechnik, a distributor covering the EU, UK and Turkey, and the Korean one is Panasonic Korea, still trading under the Panasonic name.

Makita Industrial Tools support page listing five entries: Makita U.S.A., IMOTEC Montagetechnik in Germany, Makita China, Makita Power Tools India and Panasonic Korea
The whole support list as the page prints it, read 24 September 2026. From Product and Support information, Makita Industrial Tools Corporation.

If your plant is not in one of those five, nothing on the page tells you which entry your packs and clutches route through. That depends on who your importer buys from, which is question one above. The page is also why the part-number question is the urgent one: a business whose sales have moved to Makita subsidiaries is a business whose catalogue numbers will move too.

Which leaves the size of the order. Buy a year of the items you replace on a schedule — packs, clutches, anvils — at today's catalogue price, and keep the ordinary reorder pattern for everything else. The difference you are buying against is between two states a part can be in: a catalogue item ships in days at a published price, while a special order ships when the factory schedules it and is priced when it ships. A view rather than anything Makita has said: expect Panasonic-branded EY packs to move into the second state within the next year, since sales have already transferred and Makita's stated reason for buying was to put its own battery and motor technology under these tools. If that proves early, you are holding spares you were going to buy anyway.

One part of the job does not change hands. Whatever name ends up on the tool, a pulse tool is only proving the joint if a calibrated wrench says so — browse the torque wrench range, or send the part numbers you want quoted.

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