| 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 imprinting technology. |
| 2013 | Partnership agreement signed with FISBA |
| 2015 | New Yasu Plant "Northwing" completed |
| 2019 | Changed corporate name from "Nippon Aspherical Lens CO., LTD." to "Nalux Holdings Corporation" |
