History of Wacom Quartz...
Wacom Quartz Corporation today is a privately owned Arizona corporation that was formed in September 2000. We have come together by combining the best personnel from what were once 5 quartz glass shops in the greater Phoenix area and are backed by a multi-billion dollar Japanese company.
Wacom Quartz is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wacom Corporation in Spring Valley, NY. Wacom Corp. is a materials trading company and also owns our "sister" company, Wacom Engineering Corporation in Santa Clara, CA who's main business is high performance specialty quartz lamps.
Wacom Corp. is in turn a privately owned subsidiary of M. Watanabe Co. Ltd. a worldwide trading, manufacturing and specialty materials company based in Tokyo, Japan who owns or is affiliated with dozens of companies throughout asia and north america.
*Please note that we are in no way associated with the public company "Wacom®" who is best known for manufacturing tablet and pen style computer input devices.*
Our name "WACOM" is actually an acronym for Watanabe Companies. Below are some significant milestones that led us to becoming the world-class quartz fabricators we are today:
| 1930 Japan |
 M. Watanabe & Co. first founded by Mr. Masao Watanabe |
| 1963 New York |
Wacom Corporation founded in the USA. Also Wacom Corp purchases minority shares in Quartz Scientific Inc. (QSI) of Fairport Harbor, Ohio. |
| 1994 California |
 Wacom Engineering opened in "silicon valley" selling high performance lamps. |
| 1995 Phoenix |
 QSI opens a branch office and manufacturing plant in what is today the Wacom Quartz building. In the process taking over the equipment and personnel that previously formed the in-house quartz shop for Motorola® Semiconductor's several plants in the area. |
| 2000 Tempe, AZ |
A German-owned company closes its quartz fabrication plant in Tempe, putting 30+ talented glassblowers and support staff onto the local job market. QSI is poised to do the same during a semiconductor market downturn at that time. Within one week a new company is formed; Wacom Quartz Corporation, as a subsidiary of QSI, in the same location, with the real estate now owned by Wacom Corp. and new management and many glassblowers from the former Tempe company. |
| 2003 Phoenix |
 Wacom Corp. sells back all it's stock to QSI in exchange for direct ownership of Wacom Quartz Corporation, giving us the structure we maintain today. |