History

February 1961	Late Yutaka Hasegawa, former director of the firm, practiced his business of sale and repairs of automobile tires at Aoi-cho, Hamamatsu City under the trade name of MARUTOYO Rubber Industries.
March 1968	The trade name of the firm was changed from MARUTOYO Rubber Industries to MARUTOYO TIRE REPAIRING FACTORY. At the same time, the firm set up a factory and started business of assembling rims for two-wheel vehicles and for painting hubs at Azukimochi.
January 1971	Marutoyo Tire Reparing Factory was renamed as Marutoyo Tire Reparing Factory Company, Ltd. and reorganized as a juridical person. (Capital: 1,000,000 yen)
October 1974	Sales Department was moved to Azukimochi to Aoi-cho. With this, the firm’s integral operation started.

September 1975	Factory building started at Osuga (now called Osuga, Kakegawa City)
December 1975	Building of Osuga Factory was completed and its operations started.
August 1978	Production and sale activities were divided into two separate departments, and the Sales Department was renamed as Marutoyo Tire Repairing Factory (with a capital of 3,000,000 yen) and the Production Department, Marutoyo Giken Industries Co., Ltd. (with a capital of 5,000,000 yen) each.
December 1979	Unification of Hamamatsu Factory and Osuga Factory was planned. For this, building of a new factory was commenced at Ryuyo-cho in Iwata Gun (present day called Ryuyo, Iwata City).
May 1980	Building of the new factory was completed, consequently bringing this, closing down of Hamamatsu Factory and Osuga Factory. The firm started its business as Aluminum wheel Painting Factory.
August 1981	Capitals of Marutoyo Tire Repairing Factory and Marutoyo Giken Industries, Co., Ltd. were increased to l0,000,000 yen each.


1981Ryuyo Factory Inauguration Ceremony	1981 Ryuyo Factory	1981 Ryuyo Factory

September 1983	Capital of Marutoyo Giken Industries, Co., Ltd. was increased to 30,000,000 yen.
October 1997	Former President passed away. Mr. Toyofumi Hasegawa was nominated as new president.
July 2000	M.A.T. (joint stock company) was newly created at Toyooka-mura, Iwata-gun (now called Kaminobe Iwata City) as a conglomerate.
August 2005	Pretreatment process was changed to “chrome-free”.
March 2007	Business of M.A.T. (Conglomerate) Co., Ltd. was assigned to Marutoyo Giken Industries Co., Ltd.
February　2011	50th Anniversary of Company’s Founding was celebrated.
April 2014	Joint venture company(PT. ENKEI MARUTOYO PAINTING INDONESIA) with Enkei Corporation was established at Bekasi Indonesia.