History

History

Dec. 1958

Furukawa Special Metals Co.,Ltd. was founded.

Jun. 1959

Started manufacturing Copper nickel wire, Constantan wire, Pure iron, Phosphor Bronze wire, etc.

Sep. 1963

Started manufacturing the first ISA special grade thermocouple extension cables in Japan. Delivered to Chubu Electric Power Owase Thermal Power Station.

Aug. 1966

Started manufacturing Furukawa D alloy strips for heat-resistant springs.

May. 1967

Obtained approval from TEPCO for thermocouple extension cables

May. 1969

Obtained approval from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation for Cubro nickel wire for crossbar

Mar. 1970

Started manufacturing JIS C2520 nickel chrome heating wire (36906) JIS C2521 copper nickel resistance wire (36905) JIS C2522 copper manganese wire and rod (36904)

Oct. 1975

Started manufacturing magnetic head core (Futabaloy)

Aug. 1980

New large vacuum melting furnace installed

Dec. 1981

Started manufacturing shape memory and superelastic nickel titanium alloy

Nov. 1984

R & D building completed

Oct. 1987

New automatic hot rolling mill installed

Dec. 1987

Anisotropic wire factory completed

Apr. 1991

Semi-continuous casting factory completed

Jun. 1992

Accomodated Fire-Prevention Division detached from FEC.
Renamed, "Furukawa Techno Material Co.,Ltd"

May. 1996

Built combustion testing laboratory

May. 1999

Developed FHP-NT as a medical guidewire wire

Oct. 2000

Received ISO 9001 Certification

Jul. 2002

Launched firestop block system " ROKUMARU"

Oct. 2003

Received ISO 14001 Certification

Nov. 2003

ROKUMARU received Kanagawa Indusrial Technology Grand Prize

Mar. 2011

Started manufacturing Cu-based shape memory alloys. Commercialized as the world's first incurvated nail clip for foot care

Jan. 2019

UL issues the first UL Verified Mark in the field of Wire & Cable in Japan for Furukawa Techno Material’s PROTECO SHEET for building wires

Apr. 2019

Second Ni-Ti factory completed

Dec. 2020

Third Ni-Ti factory completed