ELNA America, Inc. was established in 1977 as a wholly- owned subsidiary of ELNA Co. Ltd. and is responsible for sales, service, and support to customers in North and South America through a sales channel of independent representatives & authorized distributors. ELNA Co. Ltd. is a worldwide company with sales offices in Japan, Singapore, China, Hong Kong and Europe and supports customers through direct sales and independent agents.
ELNA design, manufacture, and sell aluminum electrolytic, solid conductive polymer, and electric double-layer capacitors. Aluminum electrolytic & dbl-layered & tantalum chip capacitors, SMDs
1929 July
ELNA ELCTRONICS CO., LTD. Establshied
1934 November
Started production and sales of "Aluminium Electrolytic Capacitors"
1937 May
Fox Electronics Co., Ltd. established (establishiment of the Company)
1960 February
Started production and sales of "Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs)"
1961 October
Established ELNA FUKUSHIMA CO., LTD. (currently, ELNA TOHOKU CO., LTD.- Shirakawa Factory) in Shirakawa, Fukushima
1968 March
Merged with ELNA ELECTONICS CO., LTD.
1970 June
Changed the name to ELNA CO., LTD.
December Listed in the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
1977 March
Established ELNA AMERICA INC., as the sales company in the USA
1979 July
Established ELNA ELECTRONICS SINGAPORE (P) LTD., as the sales company in Singapore
October Established AOMORI CONDENSER CO., LTD. (currently, ELNA TOHOKU CO., LTD. - Aomori Factory) in Kuroishi, Aomori
1980 January
Established MATSUMOTO PRINT CO., LTD. (currently, ELNA MATSUMOTO., LTD.) in Matsumoto, Nagano
February
Established TANIN CONDENSER CO., LTD. (currently, TANIN ELNA CO., LTD.) in Thailand.
1984 August
ASAHI GLASS CO., LTD. became the largest shareholder in the company
1991 October
Changed the name of subsidiaries to ELNA FUKUSHIMA CO., LTD., ELNA AOMORI CO., LTD., ELAN MATSUMOTO CO., LTD.
1995 March
Established ELNA-SONICS SDN. BHD. in Malaysia
April Jointly Established ELNA PCB (M) SDN. BHD. in Malaysia
1996 September
Established ELNA EUROPE LTD., as the sakes company in the UK
December
Established ELNA (HK) CO. LTD., as the sakes company in China (Hongkong).
2002 Augustr
Established ELNA (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD., as the sales company in China (Shanghai).
September
Transferred the business of ELNA FUKUSHIMA CO., LTD to ELNA AOMORI CO., LTD.(dissolved ELNA FUKUSHIMA CO., LTD.)
September
Changed the name of ELNA AOMORI CO., LTD. To ELNA TOHOKU CO. LTD.
2006 April
Increased capital by allocation JPY 3 billion to third party
(Japan Industrial Fund II managed by Japan Industrial Partners, Inc.)
Japan Industrial Fund II became the largest shareholder
2013 October
Established ELNA ENERGY CO., LTD., and launched solar power generation operations on Shirakawa Factory site of ELNA TOHOKU CO., LTD.
2014 November
Entered into a capital and business alliance with TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
2015 December
TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD. became the largest shareholder in the company
2016 November
Entered into a capital and business alliance with NANTONG JIANGHAI CAPACITOR CO., LTD.
2017 October
Established ELNA PRINTED CIRCUITS CO., LTD. by company split from ELNA CO., LTD. and ELNA TOHOKU CO., LTD.
2018 April
ELNA PRINTED CIRCUITS CO., LTD. became a subsidiary of Global Brands Manufacture Limited
April
ELNA CO., LTD. entered into a new capital and business alliance with TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD. ELNA became a subsidiary of TAIYO YUDEN.
2019 January
ELNA CO., LTD became a wholly owned subsidiary of TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD due to the execution of the share exchange. Accordingly, ELNA CO., LTD was delisted from the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Elna is product portfolio consists of Aluminum electrolytic capacitor, super capacitor, polymer capacitor.