{"id":398,"date":"2011-10-21T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T01:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/wordpress\/?page_id=398"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T06:29:03","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/company\/history","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div id=\"for_page_css\">\r\n<div class=\"product_table histry\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>1962<\/th>\r\n<th>April<\/th>\r\n<td>Founded as Kanji Wajima&#8217;s private company.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>1979<\/th>\r\n<th>August<\/th>\r\n<td>Restructured as Osaka Trading Co., Ltd., with a capital investment of 40 million yen.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>1997<\/th>\r\n<th>October<\/th>\r\n<td>Opened the 1st Warehouse.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2000<\/th>\r\n<th>September<\/th>\r\n<td>Acquired Basel Method certification.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th rowspan=\"2\">2001<\/th>\r\n<th>January<\/th>\r\n<td>Kunihiro Fujita appointed as company president.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>September<\/th>\r\n<td>Head office building completed.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th rowspan=\"2\">2003<\/th>\r\n<th>October<\/th>\r\n<td>Acquired ISO14001 certification<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>December<\/th>\r\n<td>Issued new-share subscription-rated bonds underwitten by the Osaka Small and Medium Business Investment &amp; Consultation Corporation.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2004<\/th>\r\n<th>February<\/th>\r\n<td>Increased capital to 60 million yen.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2005<\/th>\r\n<th>July<\/th>\r\n<td>1st Warehouse completed (OSAKA)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th rowspan=\"3\">2006<\/th>\r\n<th>April<\/th>\r\n<td>Establish Tokyo Branch(located to warehouse)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>August<\/th>\r\n<td>Corporate name was changed to METAL DO CO., LTD.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>November<\/th>\r\n<td>Increased capital to 67.25 million yen.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th rowspan=\"2\">2007<\/th>\r\n<th>April<\/th>\r\n<td>Increased capital to 199.8 million yen.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>May<\/th>\r\n<td>Increased capital to 209.8 million yen.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2008<\/th>\r\n<th>February<\/th>\r\n<td>Increased capital to 262.968 million yen.<br>Established general hazardous meterial facility and indoor hazardous material storage.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2009<\/th>\r\n<th>January<\/th>\r\n<td>2nd Warehouse completed. (KOBE)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2010<\/th>\r\n<th>June<\/th>\r\n<td>1st Warehouse permitted as Bonded Area<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th rowspan=\"2\">2011<\/th>\r\n<th>September<\/th>\r\n<td>Tokyo Branch opened (located to warehouse)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>November<\/th>\r\n<td>Capital reduction to 98 millon yen<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2013<\/th>\r\n<th>May<\/th>\r\n<td>Toshihiko Yamatsura appointed as company president.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2014<\/th>\r\n<th>November<\/th>\r\n<td>Acquired ISO9001 certification<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2017<\/th>\r\n<th>July<\/th>\r\n<td>Head office relocated to Osaka Naniwa-ku. Tokyo branch, Tokyo ware house relocated to Tokyo Ota-ku.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2019<\/th>\r\n<th>June<\/th>\r\n<td>Agreed capital and business alliance with TOYOTA TSUSHO MATERIAL INCORPORATED.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>2023<\/th>\r\n<th>September<\/th>\r\n<td>Establish Nishiyodogawa Warehouse.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1962 April Founded as Kanji Wajima&#8217;s private company. 1979 August Restructured as Osaka Trading Co., Ltd [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions\/4491"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raremetal.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}