HISTORY

1861	Founded a hardware wholesale business.
1871	Moved to Sanjo-machi and opened business.
1891	Started selling steel.
1924	Became an authorized distributor of Yasugi Works.
1935	Reorganized as a corporation and renamed Aiba Shoji General Partnership.
1939	Due to steel controls, special steel transactions with Hitachi were suspended.
1946	Established Aiba Shoji General Partnership. Resurrected pre-war sales department.
1947	Aiba Shoji General Partnership resumed special steel transactions with Hitachi.
1961	Celebrated 100th anniversary of founding.
1965	Reorganized to become Aiba Corporation.
1967	Constructed specialty steel sales office and warehouse.
1973	Completed new head office building. (Previous head office)
1979	Expanded factory and warehouse. Expanded machine tool facilities.
1983	Capital increased to 40 million yen. Built gas cutting plant.
1986	Aiba Ryoji became president.
1994	Constructed specialty steel center. (Currently 3203 Yada, Sanjo City)
2005	At the same time as the technical center was built, our company entered into a business partnership with a large-item processing company and began full-scale production of processed auxiliary forging tools.
2007	Obtained Eco Stage certification.
2011	150th anniversary of founding. Commemorative tree planted at the Yasugi Work of Proterial, Ltd. (formerly Hitachi Metals, Ltd.). Donated relief funds for the Great East Japan Earthquake to Sanjo City. Formed a business alliance with a gas cutting company.
2012	To commemorate the natural hatching of Japanese crested ibises on Sado Island, our company donated a woodblock print of a Japanese crested ibis to the Niigata Prefectural Government as part of its environmental protection activities.
2014	150th anniversary commemorative magazine (Manchuria-Korea Industrial Inspection Team Journal: The History of Aiba Corporation) published.
2021	160th anniversary of founding. Publish thank you advertisements in local newspapers and industry newspapers.