| November 1925 |
GERMAN Pigment Partnership established through a spin-off of the
pigment and foil division of L.Raybould Mercantile Establishment |
| December 1941 |
Re-established as German Pigment Co., Ltd. |
| May 1948 |
New plant opened in Kami-ogikubo, Suginami-ku, Tokyo |
| January 1961 |
Comprehensive plant newly opened in Akishima,Tokyo |
| September 1970 |
Started sales of the Finishing Tape brand of polishing tapes |
| September 1978 |
Electron microscopes introduced to strengthen quality control |
| December 1980 |
First ever clean room built for a polishing tape manufacturer at the
Akishima Plant |
| April 1981 |
Corporate name changed to Nihon Micro Coating Co., Ltd.
Product brand was unified as MIPOX |
| August 1983 |
New company office building built in the Akishima Plant premises
The
clean room extended
|
| March 1984 |
Yamanashi Micro Coating Co., Ltd. established - now the Yamanashi
Plant |
| October 1986 |
Corporate head office relocated to current site in Akishima, Tokyo |
| September 1987 |
MIPOX Co., Ltd. established |
| November 1989 |
MIPOX International Corporation (M.I.C.) established in California, USA |
| August 1993 |
LCD panel cleaner developed |
| February 1994 |
Silicon wafer edge polisher developed |
| October 1995 |
Polishing slurry developed |
| July 1996 |
Representative office established in Malaysia |
| August 1997 |
MIPOX Malaysia SDN. BHD (M.M.S.) established |
| March 2000 |
Yamanashi Plant achieved ISO14001 certification |
| November 2000 |
Akishima Plant achieved ISO14001 certification |
| February 2001 |
Stock listed on the over-the-counter market
Capital increased to ¥1,998.7 million |
| August 2001 |
MIPOX Malaysia SDN. BHD. achieved ISO9001:2000 certification |
| November 2001 |
Representative office established in Shanghai, China |
| March 2002 |
MIPOX International Corporation achieved ISO9001:2000 certification |
| March 2003 |
Akishima Head Office, Akishima Plant and Yamanashi Plant achieved
9001:2000 certification |
| August 2003 |
MIPOX International Trading (Shanghai) Corporation (M.I.S.) established |
| August 2004 |
Taiwan Branch established |
| January 2005 |
Corporate name of MIPOX International Trading (Shanghai) Corporation
changed to MIPOX Precision Polishing Product (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd. -
manufacturing and trading enterprise |
| April 2005 |
Korea Branch established |
| November 2005 |
MIPOX Precision Polishing Product (Tianjin) Co.,Ltd. (M.I.B.) established |
| March 2006 |
MIPOX Precision Polishing Product (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd. achieved
ISO9001:2000 certification |
| January 2007 |
MIPOX Singapore Pte. Ltd. established |
| August 2007 |
JM energy , joint Venture Company , established |
| April 2008 |
Korea Branch closed |
| May 2008 |
All of the stock holding of JM energy, joint Venture Company is transferred. |
| June 2008 |
Jun Watanabe assumed President & CEO |
