Company History

Established Kitagawa and Company Limited for the sales of packaging materials Seinosuke Kitagawa and Sotosaburo Kitagawa assumed post of representative board members.

Started selling nylon work glove

Entered into injection molding business

Started full operation in Higashi-Yodogawa, Osaka City

Received the first order for molded relay cases

Received the first order for molded acrylic magnifier lenses

Succeeded in injection molding of plastic lenses for the first time in Japan

Focused on lenses for cameras

Changed trade name to Kitagawa Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd.

Established Kitagawa Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd.

Established Nippon Aspherical Lens Co., Ltd.

Entered the field of high-precision camera lenses and started to work on micron-order technology in full swing

Opened Yasu plant in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture

Achieved direct connection of processes of injection-molding and coating in a clean room for the first time in Japan

Succeeded in in-house processing of a mold for aspherical lens

Achieved the shift to high-precision machining with 10nm processing machine

Started mass-production of f-theta lenses for laser beam printers

Changed corporate name to Nalux Co., Ltd.

Became number-one company by sales volume in the plastic lens industry

Seiichiro Kitagawa assumed post of President.

Opened the Headquarters and R&D Building and Yamazaki plant in Mishima-gun, Osaka

Started operation of “Subaru Telescope” of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, for which Nalux supplied a micro lens array

Established NALUX NANO-OPTICAL, INC. as marketing and sales base in USA

Opened Keihanna Research Laboratory to develop glass nano-imprinting

Obtained ISO 9001 certification

Obtained ISO 14001 certification

Established Changzhou NALUX Optics Co., Ltd as production base in China

Established NNI Co., Ltd. to commercialize glass molding and imprinting technology

Signed the partnership agreement with FISBA AG

Completed an extension building North Wing at Yasu Plant

Obtained TS (present-day IATF) 16949 certification (Yasu Plant)

Relocated Changzhou NALUX Optics Co., Ltd. to expand production

Changed corporate name of Nippon Aspherical Lens Co., Ltd. to Nalux Holdings Corporation

Completed an extension building East Wing at Yasu Plant

Succeeded to the business of Optronics Division of COLCOAT CO., LTD. and COLCOAT (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

Changed corporate name of COLCOAT(THAILAND) CO., LTD to Nalux (Thailand) Co., Ltd.