Company history

Key milestones from our founding in 1907 to the present.

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.
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