Timeline

• 1957: Materials Research Corporation founded by Dr. Sheldon Weinig
  Sheldon Weinig
  Dr. Sheldon Weinig was born in New York City. He studied at Columbia University, where he received his doctorate and served as a Professor before answering the entrepreneurial call. In 1957, he founded Materials Research Corporation...
  
   and Dr. Josef Intrater at 47 Buena Vista Ave., Yonkers, NY

for the purification and characterization of materials to be used in controlled research

• 19??: Moved company to Route 303, Orangeburg, NY 10962
• 1970: IPO, listed on the American Stock Exchange
  American Stock Exchange
  NYSE Amex Equities, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange situated in New York. AMEX was a mutual organization, owned by its members. Until 1953, it was known as the New York Curb Exchange. On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the...
  
  
• 1975: Introduced 902/903 Batch
• 1980: Introduced 603 Batch
• 1988: Introduced the Eclipse
• 1989: Acquired by Sony Corporation of America
• 1992: Garrett Pierce becomes President and CEO
• 1989: MRC acquires CVD division in Phoenix, AZ
• 1993: Tom Marmen becomes President and CEO
• 1996: Dr. Robert Foster becomes CEO
• 1997: Moved operations from NY to Gilbert, AZ, as part of a company reorganization

Outsourced manufacturing of the Eclipse Mark II, Eclipse Star, and Solaces PVD to Derlan, Inc.

Veeco Instruments Inc., Plainview, N.Y. acquired MRC Media & Magnetics Applications (MMA) division in Orangeburg, N.Y

• 1998: Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) acquired the equipment divisions of MRC

KDF acquired the MRC batch and etch product lines from Tokyo Electron

• 1999: Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. acquired the business of Materials Research Corporation (MRC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.