Corporate Data

History

• August1939

  Jiro and Saburo Yanagisawa established Yanagisawa Organic Chemical Industry in Tokyo

• April1946

  Yanagisawa purchased Towa Kagaku Industry Co., Ltd. (established in 1924) as a sales subsidiary and changed the company name to Nihon Kagaku Sangyo Co., Ltd.

• January1948

  Yanagisawa Organic Chemical Industry merged into Nihon Kagaku Sangyo Co., Ltd.

• July1951

  Began manufacturing chemicals for printing ink, drying agents for paints and catalysts for organic synthesis

• June1952

  Established Osaka Branch, the Company's first expansion into western Japan

• December1956

  Established Nagoya Sales Office

• October1960

  Built factory in Soka, Saitama (Saitama Piant)

• October1961

  Shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Second Section

• July1963

  Increased capital to ¥300 million; began molding and surface treatment of aluminum spandrel at Saitama Plant

• October1963

  Nagoya, Sales Office became Nagoya Branch; sales offices increased in the Chukyo and Tokai areas

• January1967

  Built Aoyagi Plant for aluminum molding in Soka, Saitama

• July1968

  Increased capital to ¥450 million; construction of new head office and factories

• June1970

  Rebuilt Aoyagi Plant for production of shutters

• December1970

  Increased capital to ¥700 million; rise in production of shutters

• December1977

  Built factory in Hironomachi, Fukushima (Fukushima Plant)

• April1980

  Increased capital to ¥940 million

• April1981

  Increased capital to ¥1,034 million

• March1991

  Built factory in Otonemachi, Saitama (Otone Plant)

• August1998

  Chemicals Production Division acquired ISO 9002 covering all its products

• April1999

  Thai subsidiary NEXAS ELECHEMIC Co., Ltd. established

• October1999

  Capital investment in Philippine company Pacific Rare Metal Industries, Inc.

• October1999

  Building Materials Division acquired ISO 9002 certification for its housing materials

• May2000

  Saitama, Otone and Fukushima plants acquired ISO 14001 certification

• June2000

  Thai subsidiary SIAM NKS Co., Ltd. established

• November2000

  Building Materials Division acquired ISO 9001 certification

• November2001

  Aoyagi plant acquired ISO 14000 certification

• January2002

  Capital investment in Pacific Rare Speciaity Metals and Chemicals, Inc., an affiliated company in the Philippines

• December2004

  Obtained IS09001 certification for Chemicals BusinessDivision's General R & D Laboratory

• March2011

  Built factory in Narahamachi, Futabagun, Fukushima(Fukushima Plant No.2)

• December2014

  Hanoi representative office was established in Vietnam.