1948 |
"Kitagawa and Company Limited" was founded for the sales of packaging materials. |
Seinosuke Kitagawa and Sotosaburo Kitagawa were appointed as representative board members. |
1954 |
Started selling nylon work gloves |
1960 |
Entered into injection molding business |
1961 |
Regular production started at Higashi-Yodogawa in Osaka |
1962 |
First order for molded relay case |
First order for acrylic magnifier lens |
Succeeded in injection molding plastic lenses for the first time in Japan |
Focused on lenses for cameras |
1963 |
Changed corporate name to "Kitagawa Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd." |
1970 |
Established "Kitagawa Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd." |
1971 |
Established "Nippon Aspherical Lens CO., LTD." |
1980 |
Took the initial steps to micron scale molding by moving into the field of high accuracy lenses for cameras |
1981 |
Opened up Yasu plant at Yasu city, Shiga |
Began molding and evaporation coating inside of a clean room for the first time in Japan |
Successfully developed mold for aspherical lens in house |
1988 |
Achieved high accuracy with 10nm processingmachine |
1989 |
Started mass production of fθ lens for laser beam printers |
1990 |
Chaned corporate name to "Nalux Co., Ltd." |
1991 |
Became No. 1 sale amount company in plasic lens industry |
1992 |
Seiichiro Kitagawa was appointed as the president of Nalux |
1999 |
Opened up research building and Yamazaki plant at Mishima-gun, Osaka |
2000 |
Astronomical telescope "Subaru" of National Astronomical Obervatory of Japan started its operation, for which micro lens array was supplied by Nalux. |
2002 |
Founded "NALUX NANO-OPTICAL, INC." as marketing and sales base in USA |
2003 |
Founded "Keihanna research laboratory" to develop glass nano imprinting |
2009 |
Founded Changzhou NALUX Optics Co., Ltd as production base in China |
2011 |
Founded "NNI Co., Ltd." to industrialize the glass molding and imprinting technology. |
2013 |
Partnership agreement signed with FISBA |
2015 |
New Yasu Plant "Northwing" completed |
2016 |
TS (present IATF) 16949 certification acquired (Yasu Plant only) |
2018 |
Relocated Changzhou NALUX Optics Co., Ltd. to expand production |
2019 |
Changed corporate name from "Nippon Aspherical Lens CO., LTD." to "Nalux Holdings Corporation" |
2020 |
New Yasu Plant "Eastwing" completed |
2021 |
The subsidiary company name of NNI Co., Ltd. changed to Nalux Precision Glass Co., Ltd. |
2021 |
Founded Nalux Tradings (Thailand) Co., Ltd for expanding business in the ASEAN region. |