Company history
History
- Year
- Main event
- 1907
- Masunosuke Uchida started the business of trading used jute bags.
- 1938
- Masuzo Uchida opened “Uchida Masuzo Shoten.”
- 1947
- Masuzo Uchida established Nihon Matai Co., Ltd.
- 1948
- Started sales of jute bags and jute products.
- 1951
- Started wholesale business of rice, flour, foodstuffs, etc.
- 1953
- Started production and sales of kraft paper bags.
- 1956
- Acquired Bushu Seitai Co., Ltd. and started production focused on packaging products and containers.
- 1957
- Changed company name to Nihon Matai Co., Ltd. written in katakana.
- 1962
- Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
- 1963
- Started production of polyethylene heavy duty bags.
- 1965
- Opened Hyogo Plant.
- 1969
- Purchased Akutagawa Plant from Dainippon Cellophane Co., Ltd. and turned it into the Osaka Plant.
- 1971
- Constructed Gunma Plant.
Listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Constructed the Adachi Rice Milling Plant.
- 1974
- Upgraded Osaka Sales Office to Osaka Branch.
- 1978
- Relocated Saitama Plant to Kukishobu Industrial Park.
- 1979
- Relocated Osaka Plant to Furutaka Industrial Park and renamed it the Shiga Plant.
- 1982
- Established Kanto Shiko Co., Ltd. (currently, Matai Shiko Co., Ltd.).
- 1988
- Established Matai Tohoku Co., Ltd.
- 1989
- New headquarters building completed.
Acquired Tohoku Asahi Danboru Co., Ltd.
- 1992
- Constructed Ichikawa Matai Mansion and Shobu Matai Mansion.
- 1995
- Established Matai Flexible Container Bag Co., Ltd. (currently, MATAI (VIETNAM) Co., Ltd.).
Relocated Adachi Rice Milling Plant to Kawaguchi City and renamed it the Tokyo Plant.
- 1997
- Acquired Tachikawa Danboru Kogyo Co., Ltd.
- 1998
- Received ISO 9001 certification.
- 2002
- Received ISO 14001 certification.
- 2003
- Spun off foodstuffs business, taken over by Shinmei Matai Co., Ltd.
- 2004
- Established joint venture companies, Jiangsu Zhongjin Matai Medicinal Packaging Co., Ltd. and two affiliated companies in China.
- 2005
- Changed “Wholesale Business” of Nihon Matai on the Tokyo Stock Exchange to “Chemicals.”
- 2006
- Spun off corrugated cardboard business, taken over by Matai Shiko Co., Ltd.
- 2009
- Became Rengo’s wholly owned subsidiary.
Delisted from the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
- 2010
- Absorbed and merged with Nikko Resin Co., Ltd.
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2015
- Merged with Morishita Co., Ltd.
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2019
- The Company acquires Sanyo Kakoshi Co., Ltd. and Obanazawa Nishiki Co., Ltd.
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