Maxell is a Japanese company, which manufactures consumer electronics. The company's most notable products are batteries -- the company's name is a contraction of "maximum capacity dry cell" -- and recording media, including audio and video tapes, and recordable optical discs like CD-R/RW and DVD±RW. The company also sells electronics accessories, like CD and DVD laser cleaners.
The company's corporate name is Hitachi Maxwell Ltd., and is more than half-owned by Hitachi, Ltd. It was formed in 1960 when a dry cell manufacturing plant was created at the company's Osaka registered headquarters. In 1961, Maxell Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. was created out of the dry battery and magnetic tape divisions of Nitto Electric lndustrial Co.,Ltd. (now Nitto Denko Corp.).
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