History
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
UBE Corporation
1890
- 1893
- Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha is established.
1910
- 1918
- Mitsubishi Mining Company Ltd. is established.
1920
- 1920
- Kanda Plant (now Kyushu Plant Kanda District 1, then Hokoku Cement Corporation) commences cement production.
- 1921
- Mitsubishi Mining Company Ltd., lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Kanda plant at the time of its opening
- 1923
-
Ube Cement Production, Ltd. is established.
Ube cement plant under construction
- 1925
- Ube Cement Production, Ltd. commences cement production.
1930
- 1936
- Japan’s first bulk cement tanker, Kiyotada Maru, is launched.
1940
- 1943
- Ube Cement Plant commences production of portland blast-furnace cement.
- 1948
- Isa Quarry (now Ube Isa Mine) commences quarrying of limestone.
- 1949
- Ube Industries, Ltd. lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
1950
- 1952
- Chikuho Sekkai Kogyo Co., Ltd. is established (later merged with Mitsubishi Cement Corp; now Higashitani Mine).
- 1954
- Mitsubishi Cement Corp. is established.
- 1955
- Development of Higashitani Mine commences.
- 1955
-
Kurosaki Plant (now Kyushu Plant Kurosaki District) commences cement production.
Kurosaki Plant at the time it began operating
- 1958
- Iwate Plant (then Tohoku Kaihatsu Co., Ltd.) commences cement production.
- 1955
-
Ube Cement Plant’s Isa Plant (now Isa Cement Plant) commences cement production.
Current Isa cement plant
- 1959
- Ube Concrete Industry Co., Ltd. (now Kanto UBE Concrete Corporate) is established.
1960
- 1960
- Shinryo Construction Co., Ltd. (later became Mitsubishi Construction Co., Ltd., now P.S. Mitsubishi Construction Co., Ltd.) is established.
- 1969
-
Yokoze Plant commences cement production.
Current Yokose plant
- 1964
- Kanda Cement Plant (now Kyushu Plant Kanda District 2) commences cement production.
Development of Mt. Eboshi, Kanda commences.
1970
- 1973
- Mitsubishi Mining Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Cement Corporation, and Hokoku Cement Corporation merge into Mitsubishi Mining & Cement Co., Ltd.
- 1973
- RYOKOLIME INDUSTRY Co., Ltd. is established.
- 1979
- Aomori Plant (then Tohoku Kaihatsu Co., Ltd.) commences cement production.
- 1977
- 40-tonne hopper trailer starts operating on Ube Mine Expressway.
1980
- 1988
- Mitsubishi Cement Corp. is established in the United States.
- 1988
- MCC Development Corporation is established.
- 1988
- Nevada Ready Mix is established.
- 1980
-
Operations start at Okinoyama Coal Center (now Ube Coal Center).
Representative office is established in Singapore (now UBE Singapore Pte., Ltd.).
Ube Coal Center
- 1982
- Full route of Kosan Expressway opens.
Operations start at 145-MW coal-fired power plant.
Kousan Oohashi
1990
- 1990
- Mitsubishi Metal Corporation and Mitsubishi Mining & Cement Co., Ltd. merge to form Mitsubishi Materials Corporation on December 1.
- 1991
- Merges with Tohoku Kaihatsu Co., Ltd.
- 1998
- Forms comprehensive business tie-up with Ube Industries, Ltd. and establishes Ube-Mitsubishi Cement Corporation.
- 1995
- Ube Shipping & Logistics, Ltd. is established.
- 1997
- Ube Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd. and CALCEED Co., Ltd. Merge to form Ube Material Industries, Ltd. (made a whollyowned subsidiary in 2013).
- 1998
- Forms comprehensive business tie-up with Mitsubishi Materials Corporation and establishes Ube-Mitsubishi Cement Corporation.
2000
- 2004
- Operations start at 216-MW IPP power plant.
2010
- 2012
-
MCC Development Corporation makes Robertson’s Ready Mix, Ltd. a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Robertson's Ready Mix,Ltd. (in the U.S.)
- 2015
- UBE Construction Materials Co., Ltd.(now MU MATEX Co., Ltd.) is established.
April 1, 2022
Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation commences operations
after integrating the cement and related businesses of both companies.