| 1918 |
Densen Works was established on the premises of Hitachi, Ltd. to manufacture wires, cables and copper products |
| 1956 |
Hitachi Cable, Ltd. was established by spinning off from Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1964 |
Shipped 93,000ft of 230kV Pipe Cable for a project in Los Angeles |
| 1965 |
Began mass production for Oxygen-Free Copper |
| 1966 |
Received an Export Award (1966, 67, 68, 69, 70) from the Japan's Minister of International Trade and Industry |
| 1969 |
Developed automotive brake hoses |
| 1973 |
Developed GaAs compound semiconductor wafer |
| 1973 |
Began Research and Development of Optical Fibers |
| 1978 |
Began Research and Development of Fiber-Optic Transceivers |
| 1981 |
Established Hitachi Cable America |
| 1986 |
Established Hitachi Cable Manchester |
| 1986 |
Established Hitachi Cable Indiana |
| 1987 |
Began construction of Minato Works for mass production of Optical Submarine Cables |
| 1988 |
Began Research and Development of Guided Wave Optical Components |
| 1995 |
Shipped 6,800km Optical Submarine Cables for the TPC-5 (Trans Pacific Cable) project |
| 1994 |
Achieved ISO9001 certification for the main factories |
| 1994 |
Established Hitachi Cable Queretaro |
| 1994 |
Developed LOC Lead Frames for 16M DRAM |
| 1994 |
Achieved ISO14001 certification for the main factories |
| 1996 |
Launched Hitachi Cable America San Jose office to strengthen marketing activities in the IT industry |
| 1998 |
Began to provide 8ch optical AWG (Arrayed Waveguide Grading) components for DWDM systems |
| 1998 |
Began to provide Gigabit Ethernet Solutions |
| 1999 |
Began mass production for SFF (Small Form Factor) Fiber-Optic Transceivers |
| 2000 |
Released GMX -Gigabit Ethernet Multiplexer for long distance transport
Began to provide Wide-Ethernet Solutions to Japanese carriers |
| 2000 |
Established Hitachi Cable Precision and Hitachi Cable UK. |
| 2001 |
Established J Power Systems, a joint company with Hitachi Cable and Sumitomo Electric Industries, for production of high voltage power cables |
| 2002 |
Established Hitachi Cable Europe |
| 2002 |
Established Advanced Cable Systems, a joint company with Hitachi Cable and Corning Cable Systems, for production of fiber optic cables |
| 2003 |
Reintegrated our Ethernet Switching portfolio in a new brand APRESIA
Developed world's first technology EoE (Ethernet over Ethernet) for large scale Carrier-Ethernet network |
| 2003 |
Developed GaN compound semiconductor wafer for blue-ray LDs integrated in next-gen DVD systems |
| 2004 |
Released WirelessIP5000 - SIP based VoIP Wi-Fi phone |
| 2005 |
Unified management and supervisory functions in Europe and North America by transforming Hitachi Cable America into a holding company and placing Hitachi Cable Europe, Hitachi Cable Manchester, Hitachi Cable Indiana, Hitachi Cable Queretaro and Hitachi Cable UK under Hitachi Cable America. |
| 2006 |
Released Apresia18020 -Metro Core Carrier Ethernet Chassis Switch with 1.8 Tbps switching capacity |
