Company Overview
| Company name Head office |
NDK Inc. 3-14-7 Chuo, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa 252-0239, Japan Tel: 81-42-705-5850 |
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| Representative | Hirotsugu Takeuchi, President |
| Establishment | April, 1957 |
| Capital | 119.5 million yen |
| Employees | 200 |
| Major Shareholders: | Tokyo Small and Medium Business Investment & Consultation CO., Ltd. JEOL Ltd. NDK Employees Shareholding Group The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. |
History
| 1957 Apr. | Founded in Mitaka as an independent company from JEOL to execute HF induction heating business |
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| 1963 Apr. | Introduced electron beam welding systems from JEOL and started the first electron beam welding business in Japan |
| 1963 Sept. | Osaka factory opened |
| 1963 Dec. | Hiroshima factory opened |
| 1964 Apr. | Nagoya factory opened |
| 1973 Oct. | Developed ion nitriding equipment and started marketing the equipment and offering nitriding services |
| 1974 Feb. | Sagamihara factory opened and Mitaka factory integrated there |
| 1975 Jun. | Fuchu plant opened |
| 1986 Jul. | Introduced “aperiodic generator technology” from the French company“Manufacture de Pezenes” |
| 1987 Mar. | Developed the “plasma multi furnace (PMF)” in cooperation with Daido Steel Co., Ltd. and started marketing |
| 1989 Aug. | Introduced an plasma carburizing furnace at the Osaka factory and started plasma carburizing business |
| 1992 Jul. | Nagoya factory No. 2 opened |
| 1993 Dec. | Began production and sale of radical nitriding systems as well as offering radical nitriding services |
| 1994 May. | Hashimoto Plant opened and Fuchu Plant integrated there |
| 1994 Nov. | Started ceramic coating business |
| 1995 Mar. | Hiroshima factory recognized as a subsidiary |
| 1995 Aug. | Began production and sale of plasma sulphonitriding systems as well as offering plasma sulphonitriding services |
| 2001 Jun. | Successful commercialization of the P-CVD NEO C process |
| 2002 Feb. | Head office moved to Sagamihara |
| 2003 Mar. | ISO9001 certification of both Nagoya factories and the Sagamihara factory |
| 2005 Feb. | ISO9001 certification of the Osaka factory |
| 2006 Nov. | Nagoya DLC Factory opened |
| 2009 Aug. | ISO14001 certification of the Sagamihara factory |
| 2011 Apr. | Nagoya DLC Factory integrated with Nagoya factory No.2 |
| 2011 May. | Toyonaka factory opened |
| 2012 Apr. | Acquisition of Sanshin Iron Works |
| 2014 Dec. | Sagamihara Technology Development Center opened |
| 2015 Jun. | Introduced Flexicoat 1200 from IHI Hauzer Techno Coating B.V. and started offering DLC services. |
| 2018 May. | Nagoya factory opened (3 factories in Toyoake city combined with the conventional Nagoya factory and Nagoya factory No.2) |
