Hitachi Metals, Ltd. – MarkLines Automotive Industry Portal

Apr. 1956Established Hitachi Metals Industry, Ltd. (with capital of 1 billion yen, Hitachi, Ltd. invested 100%).Oct. 1956Took over Hitachi, Ltd.’s steel division business, including 5 plants at Tobata, Fukagawa, Kuwana, Wakamatsu and Yasuki and began operations.Jul. 1961Established the Kumagai Plant.Aug. 1961Issued stocks over the counter.Oct. 1961Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges.Aug. 1962Re-listed on the First Section of the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges.Nov. 1965Established Hitachi Metals America, Ltd. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) in the USA.Jan. 1967Merged with Hitachi Metals, Ltd. to change share par value and the company name.Oct. 1970Established Hitachi Metals Europe GmbH (currently a consolidated subsidiary, in Germany.Mar. 1973Established Hitachi Magnetics Corporation, a magnetic material manufacturing company, in the USA.Oct. 1975Established Moka Works, moving facilities from Fukagawa Plant.Feb. 1979Established Hitachi Metals Singapore Pte. Ltd. in Singapore.Mar. 1980Renamed Tobata Works Kanda Plant to Kyushu Works.Jan. 1985Established Facility System Laboratory (called Production System Laboratory since October 1993).Oct. 1987Established AAP St. Marys Corporation, an aluminum wheel manufacturer, in the USA.Sep. 1988Established Hitachi Metals Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., a magnetic head part manufacturer, in Malaysia.Oct. 1988Integrated Moka Works and an electric part plant to form new Moka Works.Dec. 1989Established 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. 1991Reorganized ex-Moka Works, dividing it into Moka Works and Electronic Component Device Plant.Oct. 1993Separated Metallurgical Research Laboratory from Yasugi Works to form an individual laboratory.Jun. 1995Separated Automotive Component Company Molds Center to individually form Molds Laboratory.Oct. 1995Merged with Hitachi Ferrite, Co., Ltd., acquiring its Tottori Works and Hitachi Ferrite (Thailand) Ltd.Nov. 1995Established Luzon Electronics Technology, Inc., a magnetic head parts manufacturer, in the Philippines.Jun. 1996Established Luzon Magnetic, Inc. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) for rare-earth magnetic processing and finishing in the PhilippinesApr. 2000Merged the die research center into the materials research center.Nov. 2000Hitachi Metals America, Ltd. acquired SinterMet, LLC (USA) (currently a consolidated subsidiary), a manufacturer of ultra-hard rolls.Aug. 2003Acquired the Amorphous Metal Business Division of Honeywell International, Inc.Jan. 2005Established Soft Magnetic Materials Company.Jan. 2006Established Hitachi Metals (China), Ltd. in China, which is currently a consolidated subsidiary.Jan. 2006Established Hitachi Metals Pvt. Ltd. in India, which is currently a consolidated subsidiary.Sep. 2006The 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. 2007Merged 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. 2013Merged with Hitachi Cable. Established Electric Wire Materials Company.Apr. 2014Acquired 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. 2015Solicited 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. 2015Transferred 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 .Apr. 2016Established the Eastern Japan, Central Japan, and Western Japan branch offices.Dec. 2016Transferred all of the stock shares of the Information Systems Business, including all of the issued shares of HC Networks Ltd., to AAA Holdings.Jan. 2017Acquired 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.

Apr. 2017Established the GlobalResearch và Innovative Technology Center ( GRIT )Oct. 2017After 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. 2018Established the North Kanto Office and the Okegawa Plant.Mar. 2019Sold 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. 2019Transitioned 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. 2019Consolidated the metallurgy R&D center and materials R&D centerOct. 2019Consolidated the magnetic materials R&D center, electrical wire R&D center, and engineering function engaged in developing power electronics