History
Company History
1948 | Sogo Kako Laboratories, Ltd., established. Satoshi Nakajima assumed office to president. |
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1952 | Patent application of SK-OIL,manufacture and sale. |
1953 | Company's name changed to Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd. |
1958 | Won commissioner of the Japan patent office awards and tokyo metropolitan governor prize for the
invention of Heating media. Won the Okochi memorial technology Awards for the invention and application technology of Heating media. |
1960 | Won the Japan invention awards for the invention of Castor oil. |
1963 | Opend a Sayama office in Saitama. |
1965 | Began sales of SK Dyne™, acrylic pressure sensitive adhesives. |
1967 | Launched the SK Coil Pack series of hot oil heaters. |
1983 | Began sales of two H.T.F., Neo SK-OIL 1300 and Neo SK-OIL 1400. |
1984 | Began sales of fine powders and comb graft polymers. |
1989 | Won The SCEJ awards for the invention of highe cost performance and large high performance liquid chromatography. |
1991 | Satoshi Nakajima has expired, Moto Nakajima assume the president Capital was increased to 247 million yen. |
1992 | Capital was increased to 447 million yen. Opend a Hamaoka office in Shizuoka. |
1994 | Established Ningbo Soken Chemical Co., Ltd. in Ningbo city, China. |
1997 | Established Soken Tecnix Co., Ltd. |
1998 | Constructed the most sophisticated pressure-sensitive adhesive manufacturing plant in Hamaoka Factory. |
1999 |
Won The SCEJ awards for the invention of Hi-F Mixer for a wide range of viscosities. Sayama Factory was appointed to "Sai-no-Kuni Factory" (Factory making an effort to preserve environment). |
2001 | Established Hamaoka Soken Co., Ltd. Stock listing on Jasdaq Market. Capital was increased to 590 million yen. |
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2002 | Established Suzhou Soken Chemical Co., Ltd. in Suzhou, Jingsu Province, China. |
2004 | Capital was increased to 1,359 million yen. Established Sayama Soken Co., Ltd. Transferred Plant & System business to Soken Tecnix Co., Ltd. |
2006 | Capital was increased to 3,361 million yen. |
2008 | Moto Nakajima has expired, Minoru Ooka assume the president. Established Soken Chemical Asia, Inc. in Thailand. |
2011 | Won the Minister of economy, trade and industry awards at the Intellectual property achievement awards
2011 for excellent enterprises active in the intellectual property rights system. Established Soken High-tech Material (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. In Nanjing Province, China. |
2012 | Minoru Ooka has expired, Noriyuki Osaka assume the president |
2014 | To form Soken Chemical & Engineering Co., Ltd., was merged absorb the Hamaoka Soken Co., Ltd. and Sayama Soken Co., Ltd. |
2015 |
Won The SCEJ awards for Practical use of the twisting ball for electronic paper. |
2020 | Noriyuku Osaka has expired, Junichiro Fukuda assume the president. |