Maxell

Maxell, Ltd.
	Maxell Holdings office building in Tokyo
Native name	マクセル株式会社
Romanized name	Makuseru Kabushiki-gaisha
Formerly	Maxell Electric Co., Ltd. (1960–1964); Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (1964–2021);
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 6810
Industry	Electronics
Founded	September 3, 1960; Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Headquarters	(Tokyo) 2-18-2, Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8521, Japan; (Kyoto) 1 Koizumi Oyamazaki, Otokuni, Kyoto 618-8525, Japan;
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Yoshiharu Katsuta; (President and CEO)
Products	Consumer and industrial batteries; Data storage devices; Optical lenses; Headphones; LCD projectors; Laser projectors; Computer tapes; Functional materials; RFID systems;
Revenue	¥135.1 billion (2016)
Net income	¥5.7 billion (2016)
Owner	Hitachi (3.01%)
Number of employees	3,966 (2016)
Website	maxell.co.jp
	Footnotes / references;

Maxell, Ltd. (マクセル株式会社, Makuseru Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly known as Maxell, is a Japanese company that manufactures consumer electronics.

The company's name is a contraction of "Maximum capacity dry cell". Its main products are batteries, wireless charging products, storage devices, (USB flash drive, with real capacity 4- 8- 16- 32- 64- 128- 256GB) LCD/laser projectors, and functional materials. In the past, the company manufactured recording media, including audio cassettes and blank VHS tapes, floppy disks, and recordable optical discs including CD-R/RW and DVD±RW.

On March 4, 2008, Maxell announced that they would outsource the manufacturing of their optical media.