History

J-MAX’s history since its foundation in July 1952 as Marujun Seiki Industrial Company, a manufacturer of automotive press dies.

• Jul.
  Founded in Hayashi-machi, Ogaki-City,
  Gifu by Yorio Imagawa as
  "Marujun Seiki Industrial Company" to start the manufacture of automobile press dies.
  
• Mar.
  Received an order from Pacific Industrial Co., Ltd.
  for press dies for the radiator grill of
  TOYOTA’s first Crown.
  
• Apr.
  Relocated to Minaminokawa-Cho, Ogaki-City,
  allowing the manufacture of large dies.
  
• Jan.
  Established Marujun Seiki Industrial Co., Ltd.
  
• Mar.
  Established Shinden Plant in Shinden-Cho,
  Ogaki-City to start
  manufacturing automobile press parts.
  
• Apr.
  Started business with Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
  for press dies for automobile parts.
• Mar.
  Received an order for press parts from Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
  for the HONDA 1300 Coupe and started manufacturing.
  
• Aug.
  Opened Asanishi Plant
  in Asanishi-Cho, Ogaki-City, Gifu.
  
• Sep.
  Attained success in revolutionizing the method of production of timing belt pulleys with our sheet pressing process and initiated mass production.
  
• Apr.
  Opened the Tochigi office (now our R&D center) in Utsunomiya-City, Tochigi.
• Feb.
  Opened Yoro Plant in Kamiishizu-Cho, Ogaki-City, Gifu to integrate the R&D department and computer services.
  
• Sep.
  Started supply of press sheet-metal parts to Mitsubishi Motors Corporation.
  
• Nov.
  Started supply of press sheet-metal parts to Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.
• Jul.
  Founded THAI-MARUJUN Co., Ltd. in Ayuttaya,
  Thailand and launched the manufacture and
  sale of automobile body
  framework press parts and dies.
  
• May.
  Established Kamiishizu FRP Plant (current Kamiisizu Plant) in Kamiishizu-Cho, Ogaki-City, Gifu for the manufacture of FRP products (bathtubs, waterproof pans, kitchen counters, automotive parts, etc.) in view of future advances into the automobile parts market.
• May.
  Renamed as MARUJUN Co., Ltd.
  according with the expansion of business domain.
  
• May.
  Opened Kamiishizu Die Plant (current Kamiishizu Plant) in Kamiishizu-Cho, Ogaki-City.
  
• Jan.
  Asanishi Plant obtained ISO9002 Certification.
  
• Feb.
  Listed in the 2nd Section of the Nagoya Stock Exchange.
  
• Apr.
  Head Office, Asanishi Plant, and U-Tech Plant acquired ISO-14001 Certification.
  
• Apr.
  Kamiishizu Plant and U-Tech Plant obtained ISO9001 Certification.
  
• Sep.
  Precision Parts Department at Yoro Plant acquired ISO-9001 Certification.
• Jan.
  Relocated Tochigi R&D Center
  (current Technical Center)
  to the Haga Industrial Park for
  the expansion of operations.
  (2017 January Moved to Utsunomiya-City, Tochigi)
  
• Mar.
  Kamiishizu Parts Plant obtained ISO9002 Certification and all plants acquired ISO-9000 Series Certification.
• Nov.
  Established Guangzhou Marujun Co., Ltd. in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China and launched the manufacture and sale of automobile body frameworks, functional press parts and dies.
  
• Dec.
  Built and relocated to a new U-Tech plant with
  the business expansion.
  (2016 October Sold the U-Tech plant)
  
• Mar.
  Obtained full ownership of Honda Yonrin-Hanbai Marujun, an automobile sales company, as a subsidiary of MARUJUN Co., Ltd.
  2018 Dissolution of subsidiary status
• Apr.
  Entered into a technical assistance agreement regarding metal molds with Push Die & Mold Co., Ltd, which is an affiliated company of the WuLiengYe Group in Yibin-City, Sichuan, China.(2009 December Finished)
• Aug.
  Introduced 3,000t transfer presses and 800t blanking presses in the expanded Kamiishizu Factory to deal with the shift to high-tensile steel plates.
• Oct.
  Established Wuhan Marujun Co., Ltd. in Wuhan City, Hubei, China as a second production base to start the manufacture and sale of automobile body press parts.
• Oct.
  Acquired capital in TOMASCO Indiana Corporation. in Indiana, USA.
  
• Jan.
  In order to improve the management efficiency of the whole group, the Marujun Shinden GIC Building was completed by integrating headquarters operations and renovating the showroom at Honda Yonrin-Hanbai Marujun.(2017 March Sold the GIC Building)
• Mar.
  Implemented allocation of one million shares to Honda Motor Co., Ltd. as a third party to become an affiliate.(2013 December Eliminated affiliate)
• May.
  Relocated Wuhan Marujun Co., Ltd. to the newly established plant.
• Jul.
  Acquired capital in the establishment of BESTEX・MM・INDIA PRIVATE LTD. in India.
• Jun.
  Into a subsidiary company TOMASCO Indiana Corporation, to change its name to Indiana Marujun Corporation.(2017 March Business stopped)
• Oct.
  Opened Saitama Plant in Tsurugashima-City, Saitama.（2018　February Factory closure）
• Apr.
  Headquarters moved to Kamiishizu-Cho, Ogaki-City, Gifu.
  
• Jun.
  We concluded a capital and business alliance with Topre Corporation and became on equity-method company of Topre Corporation.
  
• Nov.
  Capacity was expanded at the Kamiishizu Plant and a 3,000t transfer press installed.
  
• Mar.
  Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
  
• Jul.
  Renamed as J-MAX Co., Ltd.