History

Corporate History
1936, June Founded for the goal of domestic production of titanium oxide
1938, June Completion of the Ube Plant, operations commence
1938, August Acquisition of Nippon Ryusan, Ltd.
1962, October Public listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Second Section
1965, April Synthetic iron oxide sales commence
1969, June Magnetic iron oxide sales commence
1987, September Listing change to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
1993, July Completion of the Ube Development Center
2000, December Attainment of ISO-9002:1994 certification
2003, August Attainment of ISO-14001:2000 certification
2003, December Attainment of ISO-9001:2000 certification
2004, May Establishment of Shandong Suntiox Industrial Co., Ltd. (affiliated company) with the joint management of Mitsui, Ltd. and Shandong Dongjia Group, Ltd. (China) in Shangdong, China
2004, September Enhancement of the production capacity of the Ube Development Center(expantion of the ST-2 plant)
2005, September Attainment of ISO-14001:2004 certification
2006, October Establishment of TK Service, Ltd. (subsidiary company)
2007, March Establishment of the Ube Development Center’s dispersion plant (the ST-3 Plant)
2009, December Attainment of ISO-9001: 2008 certification
2010, October Completion of the Ube Nishi Plant, operations commence
2012, April Enhancement of the production capacity of the Ube Nishi Plant(expantion of the TT-2 plant)
2014, June Enhancement of the production capacity of the Ube Development Center (expansion of the ST-4 Plant)
2017, July Attainment of GMP by the ultrafine titanium dioxide manufacturing facility (the ST-4 Plant) as an OTC drug substance manufacturing plant
2018, October Enhancement of the production capacity of the Ube Development Center (expansion of the ST-5 Plant)
2019, July Establishment of TBM, Ltd. (subsidiary company)
2019, September Succession of lithium titanate business to TBM, Ltd. due to a corporate split
2019, October Joint lithium titanate business commences with Toshiba Corporation
2021,February Enhancement of the production capacity of the Ube Development Center(expansion ob the ST-6 Plant)
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