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26 December 2022

November 2004Launched manufacturing and sale of cushioning and recycled products.
February 2007Changed the trade name of the Company from Chubu Kagaku Kikai Seisakusho to weava japan inc.
June 2007Began sales of the airweave mattress pad.
June 2011Concluded Brand Ambassador agreement with figure skater Mao Asada.
August 2011Participated in a “multi-support” project with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
August 2012Established airweave (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
October 2012Changed the trade name of the Company to airweave inc.
June 2013Nagahama Plant began operation.
November 2013AIRWEAVE PTE. LTD. was established.
May 2014airweave, LLC was established.
September 2014airweave, inc. was spun off into airweave, airweave manufacturing, inc. and airweave holdings, inc.
November 2014airweave Singapore No. 1 Store opened.
March 2015First street-level airweave store opened in the SoHo district of New York City.
March 2015Store openings begin in Taiwan.
March 2016Lofty Co., Ltd. is made a subsidiary of airweave.
April 2016Concluded an agreement with The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to serve as the Official Bedding Partner for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
August 2017The first street-level airweave store, located in the SoHo district of New York City, closed its doors.
September 2017airweave manufacturing and airweave holdings were merged into airweave.
July 2018A joint research project with Stanford University from 2011 to 2012 was featured in PLOS ONE, an American scientific journal. The study measured factors such as brain waves, core temperature and rectal temperature to study sleep and sleep-related biological indicators.
April 2019Entered the wellness business.
July 2020A joint research project with Stanford University from 2013 to 2015 at IMG Academy, a sports training institution in Florida, was featured in Scientific Reports, a journal published by Nature Research.
December 2020Tokyo Head Office was moved from Chuo City, Tokyo to Chiyoda City, Tokyo.
July 2021Supplied 18,000 units of bedding to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Village.
September 2021Ended operations in Singapore.
January 2022Concluded an agreement with The Japanese Olympic Committee to serve as the Official Bedding Partner for TEAM JAPAN.
September 2022Fukushima Plant began operation.
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