Maxell has been producing world class storage (tape, disks, etc.) products in Japan in the for over 50 years. The Maxell name and trademark are owned by Hitachi Maxell Ltd, Japan, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. Japan.
Maxell leads competitors with globally important "greener" manufacturing and products in many areas, for example, strong CSR reports, bio-degradeable and/or recyclable packaging of many products, 0% mercury and 0% cadmium consumer batteries.
Maxell has pioneered and developed many optical storage devices, consumer and professional broadcast tape and recordable media products.
Maxell has always placed the utmost importance on creating "world's best"
products, with research and development at the forefront of Maxell's
endeavours.