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1946 |
Manufactures of shutter started as a small scale business |
1949 |
Operation became reorganized as the Copal Koki Company Limited, specializing in the manufacturing of camera shutters. Capitalization: 600,000YEN. |
1954 |
Head office and main plant moved to Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. |
1955 |
Belt conveyor system was employed for assembling shutters. |
1956 |
Received Japan Industrial Standard (JIS) certification for self-timers. |
1957 |
Copal Employees Union was established. |
1958 |
Osaka Office was opened. |
1959 |
Received JIS certification for lens shutters. |
1960 |
Received Okochi Award for improvements in camera lens shutters and for mass production of ultra-precision products. |
1961 |
Listed on Second Section, Tokyo Stock Exchange. Received Big Ten New Products Award from Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun (Nikkan Industrial News) for Copal Square Shutter. Received Akashi Memorial Reward from Precision Machinery Institute for development, design, and manufacture of Copal Square Shutter. Received Practical Invention Award from Japan Invention Association for shutter speed control device. Received award from Ministry of International Trade and Industry for industrial standardization. |
Focal plane shutter
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Audio equipment
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1962 |
Changed company name to Copal Company Limited. |
1963 |
Participated in 8th Photokina for the first time. |
1964 |
Camera industry representatives from France visited company. |
1967 |
Received award from Mainichi Newspapers for digital clock design. |
Digital clock |
1969 |
Muikamachi Precision Co., Ltd., (currently Nidec Copal Precision Parts Corp., Muikamachi Plant) was established in Muikamachi, Niigata Prefecture. |
1970 |
Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako visited Copal Precision Co., Ltd. (currently Nidec Copal Corp., Koriyama Technical Center). |
8 mm projector |
1971 |
Listed on First Section, Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
1972 |
Ichinoseki Copal Co., Ltd., (currently Nidec Copal Corp., Ichinoseki Plant) was established in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture. |
1974 |
Electronic Industry Observation Group from PRC visited company. |
1977 |
CP element technology introduced from NEI (U.S.A.). |
1978 |
Merged Copal Precision Co., Ltd. |
1979 |
Copal Labor Union Hall was completed. |
1981 |
M. C. Engineering Co., Ltd., was established. |
Minilab system |
1984 |
Merged five manufacturing subsidiaries (Copal Opto-sonic Co., Copal Optical Co., Muikamachi Copal Co., Ichinoseki Copal Co., and Musashino Copal Co.). |
1987 |
Copal Precision Parts Co., Ltd., (currently Nidec Copal Precision Parts Corp.) was established. |
Floppy disk drive
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Laser printer
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1988 |
Entered into capital participation arrangement with Fujitsu (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Copal Division). |
1991 |
Copal Precision (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., (currently Nidec Copal (Malaysia) Sdn. Bnd.) was established in Malaysia. |
1993 |
Fukushima Precision Co., Ltd., was established in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. |
1994 |
Shanghai Copal New Asia Photographic Developing & Printing Co., Ltd., joint venture with Shanghai New Asia (Group) Co., Ltd., was established. |
1995 |
Manufacturing Equipment Division acquired ISO 9002 certification. Optical Electronic Components Division acquired ISO 9001 certification. |
1996 |
Ichinoseki Plant and Muikamachi Plant acquired ISO 9002 certification. |
1997 |
Photo Lab System Division acquired ISO 9001 certification. |
1998 |
Electronic Components Division acquired ISO 9001 certification. |
1999 |
Nidec Copal (Vietnam) Co., Ltd., was established in Vietnam. |
2000 |
Fujitsu (Thailand) Copal Division, becoming independent as Nidec Copal (Thailand) Co., Ltd., built a new plant and started operations. |
2001 |
Nidec Copal GmbH was established as the sales company of electronic and precision components in†Europe. |
2002 |
Entered into capital participation arrangement with Nidec System Engineering (Zhejiang) Corp. in China. |
2003 |
Copal Yamada Corp. was established. |
2006 | New factory for processing and assembling large parts at the Shiojiri Factory site. |
2007 | Fourth new factory established at the Nidec Copal (Thailand) Co.,Ltd.site. |
2008 | Copal Yamada Vietnam Corporation established. Technical Center for Machining built on Niigata Nidec Copal Corp. |
2010 | Nidec Copal Precision(Vietnam) Corporation was established. |
2011 | Nidec Copal (Hong kong) Co., Ltd. Taiwan Representative office was established. |
2012 | Nidec Copal Precision Parts Corporation changed name to Niigata Nidec Copal Corp. |
2013 | The new company building completed. Became a wholly owned |