| 1946 |
- Manufactures of shutter started as a small scale business
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| 1949 |
- Operation became reorganized as the Copal Koki Company
Limited, specializing in the manufacturing of camera shutters.
Capitalization: 600,000YEN.
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| 1954 |
- Head office and main plant moved to Itabashi-ku, Tokyo.
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| 1955 |
- Belt conveyor system was employed for assembling shutters.
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| 1956 |
- Received Japan Industrial Standard (JIS) certification for
self-timers.
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| 1957 |
- Copal Employees Union was established.
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| 1958 |
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| 1959 |
- Received JIS certification for lens shutters.
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| 1960 |
- Received Okochi Award for improvements in camera lens shutters
and for mass production of ultra-precision products.
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| 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.
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Focal
plane
shutter
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Audio equipment
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| 1962 |
- Changed company name to Copal Company Limited.
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| 1963 |
- Participated in 8th Photokina for the first time.
- Copal Precision Co., Ltd., (currently Koriyama Technical
Center) began operations in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture.
- Camera mission from USSR visited company.
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| 1964 |
- Camera industry representatives from France visited company.
- Contract was signed for export of shutter technology to USSR.
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| 1967 |
- Received award from Mainichi Newspapers for digital clock
design.
- Copal Optical Co., Ltd., (currently Shiojiri Factory) was
established in Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture.
Digital clock
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| 1969 |
- Muikamachi Precision Co., Ltd., (currently Nidec Copal
Precision Parts Corp., Muikamachi Plant) was established in
Muikamachi, Niigata Prefecture.
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| 1970 |
- Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako visited Copal Precision
Co., Ltd. (currently Nidec Copal Corp., Koriyama Technical
Center).
- Copal R&D Laboratory Co., Ltd. was established.
8 mm
projector
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| 1971 |
- Listed on First Section, Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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| 1972 |
- Ichinoseki Copal Co., Ltd., (currently Nidec Copal Corp.,
Ichinoseki Plant) was established in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture.
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| 1974 |
- Electronic Industry Observation Group from PRC visited
company.
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| 1977 |
- CP element technology introduced from NEI (U.S.A.).
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| 1978 |
- Merged Copal Precision Co., Ltd.
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| 1979 |
- Copal Labor Union Hall was completed.
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| 1981 |
- M. C. Engineering Co., Ltd., was established.
Minilab system
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| 1984 |
- Merged five manufacturing subsidiaries (Copal Opto-sonic Co.,
Copal Optical Co., Muikamachi Copal Co., Ichinoseki Copal Co., and
Musashino Copal Co.).
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| 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).
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| 1991 |
- Copal Precision (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., (currently Nidec Copal
(Malaysia) Sdn. Bnd.) was established in Malaysia.
- New machinery plant was completed at Shiojiri Factory.
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| 1993 |
- Fukushima Precision Co., Ltd., was established in Koriyama,
Fukushima Prefecture.
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| 1994 |
- Shanghai Copal New Asia Photographic Developing & Printing
Co., Ltd., joint venture with Shanghai New Asia (Group) Co., Ltd.,
was established.
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| 1995 |
- Manufacturing Equipment Division acquired ISO 9002
certification. Optical Electronic Components Division acquired ISO
9001 certification.
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| 1996 |
- Ichinoseki Plant and Muikamachi Plant acquired ISO 9002
certification.
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| 1997 |
- Photo Lab System Division acquired ISO 9001 certification.
- Participated in management of Precision Engineered Components
Corp. in the Philippines(currently Nidec Copal Philippines Corp.)
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| 1998 |
- Electronic Components Division acquired ISO 9001
certification.
- Nidec Corp. became the largest stockholder of company and
joined the Nidec Group.
- Received Director of the Science and Technology Agency Award
for long years of contribution to the camera industry by
developing focal plane shutters for cameras.
- Copal Optical and Electronic Machinery (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.,
was established in Shanghai.
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| 1999 |
- Nidec Copal (Vietnam) Co., Ltd., was established in Vietnam.
- Adopted an organizational structure based on business
headquarters' concept.
- Changed name to Nidec Copal Corp.
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| 2000 |
- Fujitsu (Thailand) Copal Division, becoming independent as
Nidec Copal (Thailand) Co., Ltd., built a new plant and started
operations.
- Nidec Copal (U.S.A.) Corp. was estsblished as the sales
company of electronic and precision components.
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| 2001 |
- Nidec Copal GmbH was established as the sales company of
electronic and precision components inEurope.
- Purple Ribbon Medal in Spring for contribution to the
development of focal plane shutters for cameras.
- Koriyama Technical Center, Ichinoseki Plant, Muikamachi Plant,
Nidec Copal Precision Parts Corp. acquired ISO14001 certification.
- LED/SMD Dept., Nidec Copal Philippines Corp. acquired QS9000
certification.
- Nidec Copal (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. established in China.
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| 2002 |
- Entered into capital participation arrangement with Nidec
System Engineering (Zhejiang) Corp. in China.
- Head Office Area acquired ISO14001 certification.
- Shiojiri Factory acquired ISO9001-2000 edition certification.
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| 2003 |
- Copal Yamada Corp. was established.
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| 2004 |
- Nidec Copal (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. acquired ISO 14001 certification.
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| 2005 |
- Sales Dept. in Japan moved to Nidec Tokyo Bldg.
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| 2006 |
- New factory for processing and assembling large parts at the Shiojiri Factory
site.
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| 2007 |
- Fourth new factory established at the Nidec Copal (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
site.
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