Established Asano Metal Industry Company (capitalized at 145,000 yen)
at 301 Yokka-machi, Sanjo.

Started manufacturing pig iron castings.

Established a new pig iron casting factory at 1135 Shinbo, Sanjo. Began manufacturing two kinds of malleable
cast iron at 301 Yokka-machi, Sanjo.

Discontinued manufacturing pig iron casting. Started to concentrate on malleable
iron casting and expanding the business.

Established a new factory at Tsukioka, Sanjo, and shifted the former factories from Shinbo and Yokka-machi.

Renewed all equipment to improve precision and quality control.

Increased the capital to 7 million yen. Established a new stainless casting factory.

Discontinued malleable iron casting to concentrate on stainless steel to expand
production.

Enlarged the factory and introduced the latest equipment to accept massive orders of stainless steel.

Started to manufacture all stainless steel snow melting sprinkler nozzles.

Entered into production of Physical Education equipment. Introduced numerous products to the marketplace, including patented inventions like tennis net posts.

Improved automatic sand process equipment to streamline the stainless steel production with the aim of accepting more orders.

Introduced the automatic warehousing system to streamline delivery, inventory, and logistics
management.

Renewed equipment to further improve quality.

Started research of aluminum casting to meet diverse needs.

Constructed the present head office and warehouse to expand the business, and conducted streamlining.

Introduced a new logistic system to accept small lot production in great varieties.

Introduced high frequency electric furnaces: one 350 kg and one 150 kg.

Introduced 3D CAD, which helped streamline development processes and improve designability.

Introduced a 3D modeling machine to model designs and simulate basic structures.

Published our website.

Extended the automatic warehousing system to further streamline logistic management.

Started to accept quotes and inquiries through our website to speed up provision of information.

Launched the English version of our website to gain overseas business development.

Fully updated our website, and started to provide detailed product information, such as installation manuals,
instruction manuals, and referential design price tables.

Launched our online shopping site in Japanese to create a highly convenient order receiving system.

Completely refurbished the office to make business operations more efficient.

Spun off our overseas sales division as an independent company, with the goal of expanding overseas business.