| Year |
Month |
Events |
| 1935 |
10 |
Ohara Optical Glass Mfg. Co. Ltd. was
established in Kamata, Tokyo as Jinpachi Ohara's private
enterprise. |
| 1936 |
11 |
Optical Glass Melting started |
| 1944 |
2 |
Reorganized as a Joint-Stock
Company.
Sagamihara factory was built. |
| 1954 |
5 |
Platinum Pot Melting started |
| 1958 |
4 |
Production of Lanthanum Glass started |
| 1959 |
11 |
Appointed Chicago Aerial Industries(CAI) as
an export agency |
| 1961 |
1 |
Production of Strip Glass by Continuous
Melting Method started |
| 1962 |
10 |
Acquisition of stock of Ashigara Optical
Incorporated(Kaisei-cho, Ashigara Kami Gun,Kanagawa) |
| 1965 |
10 |
Continuous Melting and Direct Pressing
Production Method started |
| 1967 |
1 |
CAI was mergedinto bourns Inc. Bourns
optical Glass was appointed as a distributor in U.S.A and
Europe |
| 1969 |
7 |
Ohara Glass reached the moon ( Apollo 11
) |
| 1975 |
8 |
Production of Low Refractive Index - Low
Dispersion Glass "FK01" Started |
| 1976 |
5 |
Production of Glass Beads started |
| 1979 |
2 |
Direct Pressing with Lanthanum Glasses
started |
| 1979 |
5 |
Production of Penta Prism by Direct Pressing
started |
| 1981 |
8 |
Ohara Corporation ( USA ) was
established |
| 1982 |
3 |
Ohara Glass flew into the universe with
Space-Shuttle "Columbia" |
| 1983 |
3 |
Volume Production of High Homogeneity
Glasses started (±0.5∼±1.0X10-6) |
| 1985 |
5 |
New Company Name "Ohara Incorporated"
introduced |
| 1986 |
9 |
Taiwan Ohara Optical Co. Ltd. ( Taiwan ) was
established |
| 1987 |
3 |
Production of High UV ( 365nm )
Transmittance Glass started |
| 1987 |
5 |
Ohara Precision Corporation ( Japan ) was
established |
| 1988 |
6 |
Volume Production of Aspherical Molded Lens
Blanks started |
| 1988 |
8 |
Production of "Glass Ceramics"
started |
| 1989 |
9 |
Introduction of 18" Interferometer ( Zygo
Mark IV ) |
| 1990 |
1 |
Ohara GmbH ( Germany ) was established |
| 1990 |
10 |
New Glass Type Desination System
started |
| 1991 |
9 |
Production of "Eco-Optical Glass"
started |
| 1991 |
10 |
Production of "Crystallized Beads"
started |
| 1991 |
11 |
Ohara Optical ( M ) Sdn. Bhd. ( Malaysia )
was established |
| 1991 |
12 |
Introduction of Super Precision
Spectrometer |
| 1992 |
1 |
T.Q.C.( Total Quality control ) was
introduced |
| 1992 |
3 |
Ohara Measurement Service started |
| 1993 |
3 |
Production of Ultra Low Expansion Glass
started |
| 1993 |
6 |
Production of "Fine Gob (FG) for precision
glass molding" started |
| 1994 |
11 |
Production of Glass Ceramics for Hard Disk
Substrates started |
| 1995 |
11 |
Starting of ACTIVE-21 movement |
| 1996 |
5 |
Ohara Disk ( M ) Sdn. Bhd. ( Malaysia ) was
established |
| 1996 |
10 |
Ohara Hard Disk Division was ISO9002
Qualified |
| 1997 |
3 |
All 112 Recommended Glass Types were
switched to Eco-Glasses |
| 1997 |
6 |
Production of "Glass Disk for Flying
Height Tester (GD-FHT) " started |
| 1997 |
10 |
Optical Glass Div. and Special Glass Div.
were ISO9002 Qualified |
| 1998 |
4 |
All Ohara Products got ISO9001
Qualified |
| 1998 |
10 |
Production of "Light High Refractive Index
Eye-Glass " started |
| 1999 |
7 |
Production of "Glass Substrates for DWDM "
started |
| 2000 |
1 |
Production of "Low Photoelastic Glass"
started |
| 2000 |
4 |
Ohara got ISO14001 Qualified |
| 2000 |
10 |
Measurement service for refractive indices
at Vacuum UV region started |
| 2001 |
11 |
Unique Ohara Optical Co. Ltd. (China) was
established |
| 2002 |
5 |
Ohara Optical (Hong Kong) Ltd.(China) was
established |
| 2002 |
6 |
Large-scale Continuous Melting started |
| 2002 |
12 |
Ohara Optical (Zhongshan) Ltd.( China) was
established |
| 2004 |
11 |
"Production Renovation" was
introduced |
