September 1948 | Established "Kuroda plating industry" in Shinmei-cho, Sabae City. |
August 1973 | Headquarters and head office factories are newly established at the current location. |
January 1976 | Separated the Shinmei Factory and established ”Kuroda Metal Chemical industry Co., Ltd.” (currently ”C & M Co., Ltd.”) |
January 1983 | Established the 3rd factory and introduced a large latest fully fully automatic plating machine. |
July 1983 | Introduced the first ion plating machine and entered the dry plating field. |
January 1989 | Company name changed to "EYETEC Co., Ltd." |
December 1997 | Added a new factory adjacent to the current factory. Expansion of the ion plating line with the introduction of large-scale sputtering equipment. |
February 2000 | Acquisition of ISO 9001 certification (Continued certification acquired thereafter) |
December 2000 | Established "Hong Kong EYETEC Co., Ltd." as a subsidiary. |
January 2001 | Acquisition of ISO 14001 certification (Continued acquisition of certification thereafter) |
March 2002 | Received the "3rd Fukui Prefecture Management Quality Award / Governor's Award" (highest award). |
August 2005 | Comprehensive industry-academia collaboration agreement concluded with Fukui University, a national university corporation. |
April 2007 | Received the "3rd Design Excellent Company Award". |
June 2007 | Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry selected company of "300 Active Manufacturing SMEs in 2007". |
April 2013 | Started electroplated diamond wire business. |
October 2013 | Received "the 2013 Good Design Award". |
January 2015 | Selected for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Kansai Monodzukuri New Selection 2015". |
October 2016 | Ichiro Kuroda, chairman of the board, was appointed as the chairman of the Sabae Chamber of Commerce and Industry. |
July 2017 | Decreased capital from JPY 683.75 million to JPY 95 million. |
December 2017 | Selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as a “Regional Future Driving Company”. |
April 2019 | Expanded into fields such as sports and leisure (surface treatment business). |
September 2019 | Introduced the latest plastic material injection molding machine and expanded the development system for resin eyewear frames (eyewear business). |
November 2020 | Renewed the core system of the Surface Treatment Division. |
February 2021 | Received "the 16th Fukui Prefectural Science Award Special Award". |
July 2021 | Closed the subsidiary "Hong Kong EYETEC Co., Ltd". |