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| 1970 |
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Established a joint venture company called NICHICON-SPRAGUE CORPORATION in Shiga Pref., Japan for production of solid tantalum electrolytic capacitors. (Current NICHICON TANTALUM CORPORATION) |
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Established NICHICON (AMERICA) CORPORATION in Illinois, U.S.A. for sales of the company's products. |
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Extended a building for production increase of hybrid ICs at Kameoka Factory (now called NICHICON (KAMEOKA) CORPORATION). |
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| 1972 |
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Established NICHICON (HONG KONG) LTD. in Hong Kong for sales of the company's products. |
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| 1973 |
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| DEC. |
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Established a joint venture company called SAMWHA ELECTRIC CO., LTD. in Korea for production of aluminum electrolytic capacitors and plastic film capacitors. |
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| 1978 |
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Established NICHICON (SINGAPORE) PTE., LTD. in Singapore. |
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Started mass production of switching power supplies. |
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| 2000 |
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Established NICHICON (FUKUI) CORPORATION in Ohno, Fukui Pref. for production of solid tantalum electrolytic capacitors. |
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Established NICHICON (TAIWAN) CO., LTD. in Taiwan for sales of the company's products. |
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Established NICHICON (SHIGA) CORPORATION in Kusatsu, Shiga Pref. for production of solid tantalum electrolytic capacitors. |
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| 2001 |
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Established NICHICON (THAILAND) CO., LTD. in Thailand for sales of the company's products. |
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Established representative office in Shanghai, China for marketing of the company's products. |
| DEC. |
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Established NICHICON ELECTRONICS (WUXI) CO., LTD. in China for production of aluminum electrolytic capacitors and switching power supplies. |
| DEC. |
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Established NICHICON (AUSTRIA) GmbH in Austria for sales of the company's products. |
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| 2002 |
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Established NICHICON ELECTRONICS TRADING (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD. in Shanghai, China for sales of the company's products. |
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Established representative office in Shen Zhen (now called NICHICON ELECTRONICS TRADING (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.) , China for marketing of the company's products. |
| DEC. |
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Kaminaka Factory of WAKASA ELECTRIC CORPORATION (present consolidated subsidiary NICHIKON (WAKASA) CORPORATION) is closed due to corporate restructuring and its operations transferred to Obama Factory (Obama, Fukui Pref.) |
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| 2003 |
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| APR. |
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Split off kameoka Factory into an independent subsidiary, named NICHICON (KAMEOKA) CORPORATION. |
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Established representative office in Dalian, China for marketing of the company's products. |
| APR. |
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Changed subsidiary corporate names:
(ASAHI ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
→ NICHICON (ASAHI) CORPORATION
WAKASA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
→ NICHICON (WAKASA) CORPORATION) |
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Split off Kusatsu Factory into an independent subsidiary, named NICHICON (KUSATSU) CORPORATION. |
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| 2004 |
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Basic agreement was signed for the acquisition of the assets related to chip-tantalum capacitors from Matsushita Electronic Components Co., Ltd. (new called Panasonic Electronic Devices Co., Ltd.) |
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NICHICON ELECTRONICS (TIANJIN) CO., LTD. started production of solid tantalum electrolytic capacitors. |
| DEC. |
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Completed the headquarters building. |
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| 2005 |
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Split off Ohno Factory into an independent subsidiary, named NICHICON (OHNO) CORPORATION. |
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NICHICON (EUROPE) LTD. was disbanded and merged with NICHICON (AUSTRIA) GmbH as its U.K.OFFICE. |
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| 2006 |
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"2006 Minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology award for science and technology" received for research on induced acceleration in high-energy circular accelerators. |
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| 2007 |
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Nichicon has jointly developed with Kandenko Co., Ltd. and Hokuriku Electric Power Company momentary voltage sag compensator using electric double layer capacitors in the storage unit. |
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Momentary voltage sag compensator using electric double layer capacitors in the storage unit won the Minister of Economy Trade and Industry Prize in the product competition of Electrical Construction Equipment and Materials Fair 2007. |
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| 2008 |
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| AUG. |
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Established NICHICON ELECTRONICS TRADING (SHANZHEN) CO., LTD. in Shanzhen, China for sales of the company's products. |
| AUG. |
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NICHICON (SHIGA) CORPORATION is merged into NICHICON TANTALUM CORPORATION. |
| OCT. |
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Nichicon reaches a basic agreement to purchase the conductive polymer aluminum solid electrolytic capacitor business of FUJITSU MEDIA DEVICES LTD. |
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| 2009 |
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NICHICON (ASAHI) CORPORATION is merged into NICHICON (IWATE) CORPORATION. |
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FPCAP ELECTRONICS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD. in China
started production of conductive polymer aluminum solid electrolytic capacitors. |
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Released the first hybrid-type emergency generator in the industry incorporating momentary voltage sag compensator.(Nichicon has jointly developed with YANMAR Energy System Co., Ltd.) |
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Started mass-production of charger integrated DC-DC converters, inverters for electric vehicles. |
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Established WUXI NICHICON ELECTRONICS R&D CENTER CO., LTD. in China for design and development of switching power supplies. |
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