Taiyo Kogyo Corporation

Logo of Birdair, Inc.

Birdair was founded in 1957 in Buffalo, New York by Walter Bird. The company first began building radomes and rapid deployment command shelters and then branched into 1200 major installations in more than 30 countries, requiring over 30,000,000 square feet (2,800,000 m²) of architectural fabric membrane.[3]

In 1992 the company became a division of Taiyo Kogyo Corporation.

In addition to its high-profile structures it deploys collapsible umbrellas for restaurants and non-collapsible umbrellas for bigger projects through its Birdair Architectural Umbrellas subdivision.[4]

Its headquarters is in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, New York.

Taiyo Membrane Corporation is a supplier of tensile membrane structures within Australia and the Oceania region. Trading as MakMax Australia, the head office is located in the largely industrial area of Eagle Farm, north-east of the Brisbane CBD in Queensland Australia.

MakMax Australia was formed in 1984 in Australia under the name Shade Structures Pacific and originally raised to prominence through its innovative shade structures for the 1988 World Expo in Brisbane. The company joined the Taiyo Kogyo Group after it joined with USA Company Birdair Inc in 2001 and became Shade Structures Birdair.

In 2003 Shade Structures Birdair was transferred to Taiyo Kogyo Corporation and the company was changed to Taiyo Membrane Corporation. In 2007 Taiyo Membrane Corporation changed their Australian trading name to MakMax Australia whilst still trading under Taiyo Membrane Corporation internationally.

• Karaiskákis Stadium, Athens, Greece
• Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Healesville Sanctuary, Victoria, Australia
• Queensland Tennis Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Warner Bros. Movie World, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
• The Gabba, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Anna Mears Velodrome, Membrane Roof and Facade, Brisbane, Australia
• Optus Stadium Halo Roof, Perth, Australia
• Memorial Drive Tennis Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
• Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• Donald N. Dedmon Center, Radford, Virginia, United States
• Red Bull Arena, Harrison, New Jersey, United States
• Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa
• Durban Stadium, Durban, South Africa
• Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
• Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas, United States
• Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
• Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy
• Ravenna Sports Palace, Ravenna, Italy
• Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Taoyuan County Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan
• Hong Kou Stadium, Shanghai, China
• Cohen Stadium, El Paso, Texas, United States
• Kuwait National Stadium, Safat, Kuwait
• The Home Depot Center, Carson, California, United States
• HSBC Arena, Buffalo, New York, United States
• Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai, China
• Baptist Sports Park, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Wuhan Stadium, Wuhan, China
• HSH Nordbank Arena, Hamburg, Germany
• Komatsu Dome, Komatsu, Japan
• Misawa Ice Arena, Misawa, Japan
• Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China
• Shin Amagi Dome, Amagi, Japan
• Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
• Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• Shanghai Sports Facility, Shanghai, China
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas, United States
• Incheon Munhak Stadium, Incheon, South Korea
• University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona, United States
• The O2 (Millennium Dome), London, England, UK

• Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado, United States
• Amgen Helix Pedestrian Bridge, Seattle, Washington, United States
• Rapid Central Station, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
• Palm Springs Airport - S. Bono Terminal, Palm Springs, California, United States
• San Jose De Los Cabos International Airport, Las Cabos, Mexico

• San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, United States
• Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
• The Sony Center, Berlin, Germany
• David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• University of La Verne Sports Science, La Verne, California, United States
• Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York, United States
• Wildwoods Convention Center, Wildwood, New Jersey, United States