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Trade Name	SPC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
Date of Establishment	August 5, 1947
Date of Start of Business	December 8, 1946
Capital	600-million Yen
Location	[Head Office] 2-1-3 Shibasaki, Chofu City, Tokyo 182-8602, Japan
Number of Employees	281 (as of March 31, 2025)
Main Line of Products	Coaxial/Waveguide Components: Communications/Power Feeding Parts, Components for Communications, Radar Power Feed System Components, Onboard Satellite Components Communications Equipment: Components for Satellite Communications, Submillimeter Wave/Millimeter Wave Transmission Equipment Electronic Equipment: Microwave Oscillators, High-frequency Electric Power Amplifiers, Simulators, Microwave/Millimeter Wave Active Components Industrial IH Equipment: Melting/Deposition Products, Heat Processing Products, Preheating/Heating Products, Sealing Products, High-frequency Power Source, Thin-film Heating Products, Paint Drying Products, High-temperature Heating Products, Non-contact Power Supply Products

Directors and Auditors

President	Tomoaki Tanaka
Directors	Yasumasa Ito, Hiroshi Fujiyama, Takanori Morisawa
Directors (Part-time)	Hideo Takeshita
Standing Statutory Auditor	Naohiro Futami
Statutory Auditors (Part-time)	Kioi Satoshi, Kensuke Uchibayashi

History

1946	Established Shimada Rika Kogyosho in Shimada-cho, Shida-gun, Shizuoka (now Shimada-shi).
1947	Established SPC Electronics Corporation. Established the head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo and a factory in Shimada-shi, Shizuoka.
1948	Released a high-frequency induction system. Relocated the head office to Nakano-ku, Tokyo. Established Osaka Liaison Office (present Kansai Branch Office).
1951	Released microwave devices. Established Nagoya Branch Office (present Chubu Branch Office).
1952	Acquired capital participation from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Established a new factory in Nakano-ku, Tokyo.
1960	Relocated the head office and Tokyo Works to Chofu City, Tokyo.
1974	Renewed the corporate logomark (SPC mark) and font type for the company name.
1982	Began exporting satellite communication equipment to the United States.
1985	Opened a representative office in Atlanta, USA.
1988	Established SPC Electronics America, Inc. as a local subsidiary upgraded from a representative office.
1991	Completed an R&D building in the head office area.
1995	Acquired ISO9001 quality management system certification.
2000	Acquired ISO14001 environmental management system certification for the Tokyo site.
2004	Acquired ISO14001 environmental management system certification for the entire SPC Group.
2008	Released non-contact power supply inverters.
2009	Consolidated and relocated the company bases to the Tokyo site.
2010	Delisted the company's shares from the stock exchange and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Completed the construction of the fourth factory in the head office area.
2011	Released thin-walled waveguides for satellites.
2017	Released an SiC induction heating inverter system.
2018	Released PWM-controlled induction heating inverters.
2023	Received the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy Commissioner's Award at the Japan Machinery Federation's 2022 Excellent Energy Saving and Decarbonization Equipment and System Award for the PWM-controlled induction heating inverter. Developed wireless power supply inverter for EVs.
2024	Received the FY 2024 Defense Infrastructure Development Foundation Award given by the Defense Infrastructure Development Foundation (BSK) for the development of tactical air navigation (TACAN) test equipment (TACAN simulator 12S400) using digital signal processing technology.