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. |
2015 | Merged with Morishita Co., Ltd. |
2019 | The Company acquires Sanyo Kakoshi Co., Ltd. and Obanazawa Nishiki Co., Ltd. |