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- History
- 1962January
- Established under the corporate name "Mitsubishi Reynolds Aluminum Co., Ltd. " by Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Mitubishi Chemical Corporation, and other Mitubishi Group companies, with Reynolds International, Inc. U.S.A., for the comprehensive production of aluminum mill products.
- 1963January
- Started construction of the comprehensive aluminum fabrication plant (Fuji Plant: now, Head Office; the same applies below), with the state of the art production facilities for extrusions, plates, sheets, coils and foils.
- 1965October
- Started production of extrusions.
- 1964October
- Started production of foil.
- 1965June
- Fuji Plant completed.
- 1965October
- Started production of sheet and coil.
- 1968January
- Fuji Plant designated by the Tokyo Bureau of International Trade and Industry as a factory authorized to use the "JIS mark" on her products.
- 1970January
- Corporate name Changed to "Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Ltd.".
- 1971September
- Entered into a license agreement with Reynolds Metals Company for aluminum fl uxless vacuum brazing.
- 1971November
- Received offi cial recognition for industrial standards from the Director of the Tokyo Bureau of international Trade and Industry.
- 1972June
- Installed a laboratory-type vacuum brazing furnace and began providing technical services on vacuum brazing to potential customers.
- 1975December
- Entered into a license agreement with Incilco, Corp., U.S.A., to manufacture highperformance thin walled seamless tubes and heat exchangers.
- 1977November
- Established the Technical Development Center at the Fuji Plant.
- 1985November
- Established a joint venture company, Thermalex, in the U.S.A. with Incilco Corp. to manufacture extrusions for automotive heat exchangers.
- 1986November
- Completed the new packaging plant.
- 1988July
- Established MA Packaging Co., Ltd.
- 1994July
- Opened a representative offi ce in Bangkok.
- 1995August
- Opened a representative office in Shanghai.
- 1995August
- Established MA Trading Co., Ltd.
- 1995November
- Invested capital in Varopakorn Public Company in Bangkok, Thailand, and entered into a technical assistance agreement with this Bangkok based corporation.
- 1996April
- Established MALC-THAI Co., Ltd., in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 1997June
- Established MUANG-MAX (THAILAND) Co., Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand.
- 2000October
- Acquired shares of Tachibana Metal Co., Ltd. and made it a subsidiary.
- 2002August
- Entire Fuji Plant operation was designated as an ISO9001 plant.
- 2003November
- Entire Fuji Plant operation was designated as an ISO14001 plant.
- 2004September
- Established MA CHINA EXTRUSION (SUZHOU) Co., Ltd. in Suzhou New District, China.
- 2006March
- Entire all Company operation was designated as an ISO9001 Comany.
- 2008June
- Acquired all shares of Thermalex and made it our fully owned subsidiary.
- 2009January
- Integrated MA Packaging Co., Ltd., MA Foil Co., Ltd., and our Containes Products Division and established a fully integrated processing foil company, MA Packaging Co., Ltd.
- 2013September
- stablished MA EXTRUSION INDIA PVT. Ltd. in Gujarat, India
- 2019April
- Acquired all shares of Tachibana Metal Co., Ltd. and made it our fully owned subsidiary.
- 2022April
- MA Aluminum Corporation took over the business from Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Ltd. and began operating with the new trade name and structure.