Company History

  1. 1915 Nippon Carbon Co., Ltd. was established in Urashimagaoka, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi and production of natural graphite electrodes started.
  2. 1926 Production of artificial graphite anodes for aqueous electrolysis started.
  3. 1927 Nippon Carbon Co., Ltd., for the first time in Japan, succeeded in producing artificial graphite electrodes.
  4. 1932 Industrialization of electronic carbon brushes for electric motors started.
  5. 1933 Yamanashi Plant was built in order to produce graphite anodes.
  6. 1934 Toyama Plant was opened to produce artificial graphite electrodes for steel-making

Yamanashi Plant Construction

Toyama Plant Construction

  1. 1938 Yokohama Bay-area Plant was built and mass-production of materials for high-grade carbon products such as electric carbon brushes started.
  2. 1949 Started producing RESBON® impervious graphite for chemical constructional material.

Yokohama Bay-area Plant Construction

RESBON®

  1. 1957 Established the technology of producing nuclear grade graphite (Moderator & Reflector)
  2. 1962 Started industrializing carbon fiber CARBOLON®
  3. 1966 Started producing APEX SEAL for rotary engines
  4. 1970 Started producing high-strength and high-elasticity carbon fiber CARBOLON-Z®
  5. 1974 Started producing flexible graphite sheet NICAFILM®
  6. 1980 Made an entrusted development contract with Research Development Corporation of Japan to establish manufacturing technology for silicon carbide continuous fiber Nicalon™
  7. 1983 Started producing isotropic graphite at Yamanashi Plant. Received authorization from Research Development Corporation of Japan for the successful development of manufacturing technology for silicon carbide continuous fiber Nicalon™
  8. 1985 Awarded the Deming Prize

The Deming Prize

  1. 1986 Started fiber form activated carbon sales business
  2. 1987 Shirakawa Plant was started operation to produce and process high-performance sliding material SC CARBON®

Shirakawa Plant

  1. 1992 Made an entrusted development contract with Research Development Corporation of Japan in order to research industrialized manufacturing technologies for ultra-high-heat-resistant silicon carbide continuous fiber Hi-Nicalon™ by adopting an electron beam irradiation method.
  2. 1993 Toyama Plant got ISO9001 certification.

ISO9001 certification.

  1. 1994 Shiga Plant (Shin Nippon Carbon) got ISO9002 certification. (Renewed to ISO9001 in 1997)
  2. 1995 Received authorization from Research Development Corporation of Japan for the successful development of manufacturing technology for ultra-high-heat-resistant silicon carbide continuous fiber Hi-Nicalon™
  3. 1998 Yamanashi Plant obtained ISO9001 certification. Toyama Plant, Yamanashi Plant and Shiga Plant (Shin Nippon Carbon) collectively obtained ISO14001 certification.
  4. 1999 Merged with Shin Nippon Carbon Co., Ltd. and renamed the company to Shiga Plant.

ISO14001 certification

Shiga Plant

  1. 2003 Established Nippon Techno-Carbon Co., Ltd. which focused on specialty carbon products
  2. 2005 Established Nippon Carbon Lorraine Co., Ltd., a sales company that specialized in impervious graphite products for the chemical industry.
  3. 2006 Started producing 32-inch artificial graphite electrodes for DC arc furnaces.
  4. 2010 Renamed the Nippon Carbon Lorraine Co., Ltd. to Nippon Carbon Mersen Co., Ltd.
  5. 2012 Established a NGS NGS Advanced Fibers Co., Ltd.,

Conceptual drawing for NGS New Plant

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