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OKI Supply Co. company history timeline

1946

Arcet Equipment Company was established in 1946 in Richmond, VA as a full-service welding supply distributor.

1949

Later that year, however, the order was rescinded, and in 1949 the company was incorporated under its current name, Oki Electric Industry Company.

1953

In 1953 Oki's rebuilt Shibaura plant opened and began manufacturing telephones and radios.

1954

In 1954 the company entered into a joint venture with Raytheon, a leading American defense electronics contractor, to produce radar equipment.

1966

The remaining Big Six firms were brought into the project in 1966, when work began on the next generation of FONTAC computers.

1971

In 1971, Oki developed a microwave radio network in Brazil.

1977

In 1977 it added a research laboratory to its electronics plant at Hachioji and devoted it to research and development of large-scale integration microcircuits (LSIs), which can pack a relatively substantial number of transistors into a small space.

1979

Following an extensive restructuring in 1979, however, the company made a dramatic recovery.

1985

In 1985, Oki began manufacturing cellular mobile telephones in the United States since that is where the largest market is.

2013

The formation of Arc3 Gases in the fall of 2013 could be considered a Tale of Two Companies.

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