| Apr. 1956 |
Established Hitachi Metals Industry, Ltd. (with capital of 1 billion yen, Hitachi, Ltd. invested 100%). |
| Oct. 1956 |
Took over Hitachi, Ltd.’s steel division business, including 5 plants at Tobata, Fukagawa, Kuwana, Wakamatsu and Yasuki and began operations. |
| Jul. 1961 |
Established the Kumagai Plant. |
| Aug. 1961 |
Issued stocks over the counter. |
| Oct. 1961 |
Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges. |
| Aug. 1962 |
Re-listed on the First Section of the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges. |
| Nov. 1965 |
Established Hitachi Metals America, Ltd. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) in the USA. |
| Jan. 1967 |
Merged with Hitachi Metals, Ltd. to change share par value and the company name. |
| Oct. 1970 |
Established Hitachi Metals Europe GmbH (currently a consolidated subsidiary, in Germany. |
| Mar. 1973 |
Established Hitachi Magnetics Corporation, a magnetic material manufacturing company, in the USA. |
| Oct. 1975 |
Established Moka Works, moving facilities from Fukagawa Plant. |
| Feb. 1979 |
Established Hitachi Metals Singapore Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. |
| Mar. 1980 |
Renamed Tobata Works Kanda Plant to Kyushu Works. |
| Jan. 1985 |
Established Facility System Laboratory (called Production System Laboratory since October 1993). |
| Oct. 1987 |
Established AAP St. Marys Corporation, an aluminum wheel manufacturer, in the USA. |
| Sep. 1988 |
Established Hitachi Metals Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., a magnetic head part manufacturer, in Malaysia. |
| Oct. 1988 |
Integrated Moka Works and an electric part plant to form new Moka Works. |
| Dec. 1989 |
Established Ward Manufacturing Inc., a pipejoint manufacturing company, in the USA.
Established Hitachi Metals North Carolina, Ltd., an electric component ferrite manufacturing company, in the USA. |
| Oct. 1991 |
Reorganized ex-Moka Works, dividing it into Moka Works and Electronic Component Device Plant. |
| Oct. 1993 |
Separated Metallurgical Research Laboratory from Yasugi Works to form an individual laboratory. |
| Jun. 1995 |
Separated Automotive Component Company Molds Center to individually form Molds Laboratory. |
| Oct. 1995 |
Merged with Hitachi Ferrite, Co., Ltd., acquiring its Tottori Works and Hitachi Ferrite (Thailand) Ltd. |
| Nov. 1995 |
Established Luzon Electronics Technology, Inc., a magnetic head parts manufacturer, in the Philippines. |
| Jun. 1996 |
Established Luzon Magnetic, Inc. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) for rare-earth magnetic processing and finishing in the Philippines |
| Apr. 2000 |
Merged the die research center into the materials research center. |
| Nov. 2000 |
Hitachi Metals America, Ltd. acquired SinterMet, LLC (USA) (currently a consolidated subsidiary), a manufacturer of ultra-hard rolls. |
| Aug. 2003 |
Acquired the Amorphous Metal Business Division of Honeywell International, Inc. |
| Jan. 2005 |
Established Soft Magnetic Materials Company. |
| Jan. 2006 |
Established Hitachi Metals (China), Ltd. in China, which is currently a consolidated subsidiary. |
| Jan. 2006 |
Established Hitachi Metals Pvt. Ltd. in India, which is currently a consolidated subsidiary. |
| Sep. 2006 |
The Company and Shanghai Baosteel Group jointly established Bao Steel Hitachi Rolls (Nantong) Ltd. (now a consolidated subsidiary) to manufacture and sell cast rolls for hot strip mills in China. |
| Apr. 2007 |
Merged with Neomax Co., Ltd. and took over the operations of Neomax’s Yamazaki Works, Kumagaya Works, Saga Works, and the research center for magnetic materials. |
| Jul. 2013 |
Merged with Hitachi Cable. Established Electric Wire Materials Company. |
| Apr. 2014 |
Acquired all the stock shares in Waupaca Foundry, Inc. in the U.S. held by Waupaca Foundry Holdings, Inc. (Currently Hitachi Metals Foundry America, Inc.), turning both companies into consolidated subsidiaries. |
| Mar. 2015 |
Solicited a tender offer of stock shares in Hitachi Metals Techno, Ltd. and transferred all of the shares of the company to the tender offeror. As a result, Hitachi Metals Techno, Ltd. ceased being a consolidated subsidiary . |
| May. 2015 |
Transferred 51 % of Hitachi Tool’s stock shares to Mitsubishi Materials, and as a result, Hitachi Tool ceased being a consolidated subsidiary and its corporate name was changed to Mitsubishi Tool .
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| Apr. 2016 |
Established the Eastern Japan, Central Japan, and Western Japan branch offices. |
| Dec. 2016 |
Transferred all of the stock shares of the Information Systems Business, including all of the issued shares of HC Networks Ltd., to AAA Holdings. |
| Jan. 2017 |
Acquired all of the stock shares held by Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. in SH Copper Products, a
company accounted for using the equity method at the time, and turned the company into a consolidated subsidiary.
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| Apr. 2017 |
Established the GlobalResearch và Innovative Technology Center ( GRIT ) |
| Oct. 2017 |
After acquiring all of the stock shares held by Mitsubishi Materials in Hitachi Metals MMC Superalloy, Ltd., which was a consolidated subsidiary at the time, turned the company into a wholly owned subsidiary. (Since then, the operations of the company were absorbed and merged in April 2018.) |
| Apr. 2018 |
Established the North Kanto Office and the Okegawa Plant. |
| Mar. 2019 |
Sold AAP St. Marys Corp. (AAP) to Kosei Aluminum Co., Ltd., after transferring all outstanding stock shares, and as a result, AAP was removed as a consolidated subsidiary. |
| Apr. 2019 |
Transitioned to a new corporate structure based on two business segments, the metal materials business and the component business, under the “company system” that started from April 2001. |
| Oct. 2019 |
Consolidated the metallurgy R&D center and materials R&D center |
| Oct. 2019 |
Consolidated the magnetic materials R&D center, electrical wire R&D center, and engineering function engaged in developing power electronics |
