Tokuyama Corp.

History

Year	Detail
1918	Tokuyama Corporation was originally established in 1918 as Nihon Soda Kogyo Co., Ltd. The company's founder, Katsujiro Iwai, aimed to set up production of soda ash in Japan.
1938	The company began producing cement by employing a wet process that uses by-products from soda ash operations.
1964	The company commenced production of propylene oxide by employing chloride, which uses by-products from caustic soda operations.
1967	The company established the Higashi plant in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture (currently Shunan City), to expand the portfolio of petrochemical business.
1983	The company entered the electronic materials market by selling high-purity chemicals for electronics manufacturing.
1985	The company entered the sensor business with equity participation in Figaro Engineering Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor type gas sensors.
1995	Tokuyama Corp. established Hantok Chemicals Co., Ltd. in South Korea as a joint venture to produce developing semiconductor fluids.
1996	The company established Tokuyama Asia Pacific Pte.Ltd. as a Singapore-based subsidiary and Tokuyama Electronic Chemicals Pte. Ltd. in Singapore as a refinery and distributor of high-purity chemicals for electronics manufacturing.
2002	The company established Shanghai Tokuyama Plastics Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China, to manufacture and sell microporous film.
2005	Tokuyama established Tokuyama Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a sales company in Shanghai, China, and Tokuyama Chemicals (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., a manufacturing and sales company of fumed silica in Zhejiang, China.
2013	The company established Tokuyama (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, in China as a management company to provide services for other group companies in China.
2018	The company acquired all of the shares of Tokuyama Central & Soda Inc. and changed the company's name to Tokuyama Soda Trading Co., Ltd.
2020	The company established Formosa Tokuyama Advanced Chemicals Co., Ltd. in Taiwan as a joint venture to produce high-purity chemicals for electronics manufacturing.
2021	Tokuyama acquired A&T Corporation, making it a wholly owned subsidiary. This acquisition strengthened the company's portfolio in the medical and diagnostics equipment sector.
2022	The company established STAC Co. Ltd. in Korea as a joint venture to produce high-purity chemicals for electronics manufacturing.
2022	The company restructured its two subsidiaries in Taiwan, and Tokuyama Taiwan Marketing & Research Center has been renamed Tokuyama Taiwan Corporation.
2024	Tokoyuma and Ebara Corp. signed an agreement to conduct a joint pilot test to validate a new hydrogen utilization model using the hydrogen-powered absorption chiller-heater (Model RHDH) developed by the Ebara Group.