Corporate History

1948 April Company established.
(Starts manufacturing and selling industrial chemicals and ammonia)
1952 July Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd participates in our management.
Asahi Chemical starts to manufacture new products, such as IBIT (Acid corrosion inhibitor).
1956 July ASAHI Chemical moves its headquarters to Osaka, Nishi-ku.
1958 March ASAHI Chemical acquires land for its Shigino Works.
1959 October ASAHI Chemical starts manufacturing aluminate sulfate solutions.
1964 October ASAHI Chemical inaugurates its Tokyo offices in Tokyo, Chuo-ku, Kanda.
1968 October ASAHI Chemical acquires land for its Hirakata Works.
ASAHI Chemical builds its Tokushima Works and starts manufacturing aluminate sulfate solutions.
1969 May ASAHI Chemical starts manufacturing poly aluminum chloride in its Shigino Works.
October ASAHI Chemical builds its Yonago Works and starts manufacturing aluminate sulfate solutions.
December ASAHI Chemical builds its Toyama Works and starts manufacturing sodium aluminates.
1975 October ASAHI Chemical builds its Nichinan Works and starts manufacturing aluminate sulfate solutions.
1978 February ASAHI Chemical starts manufacturing and selling ASAFINE.
1981 February ASAHI Chemical acquires JIS manufacturing qualification for the production of poly aluminum chloride at its Shigino Works.
1985 November ASAHI Chemical begins to manufacture and sell SUMICERAM.
1992 February ASAHI Chemical acquires JIS manufacturing qualification for the production of aluminate sulfate solutions at its Shigino Works
July ASAHI Chemical exports its manufacturing technology for poly aluminum chloride to Thailand.
1995 October ASAHI Chemical starts manufacturing chlorate.
1998 April ASAHI Chemical acquires its Nihama Works and starts manufacturing and selling LUXELEN.
2000 July ASAHI Chemical acquires 3 works in Shirao, Iwanuma and Fuji respectively and starts manufacturing aluminate sulfate solutions, sodium aluminate solutions and paper processing resin.
ASAHI Chemical acquires the ISO9002 certification.
2003 April Sumitomo Chemical assigns the production of inorganic flocculents to ASAHI Chemical. (Integrated production, sales and research operations.)
July ASAHI Chemical moves its Shigino and Hirakata Works inside the Osaka Works of Sumitomo Chemical.
ASAHI Chemical moves its poly aluminum chloride manufacturing facilities inside the Ehime Works of Sumitomo Chemical.
2004 April ASAHI Chemical moves its headquarters to their present location in the Sumika Fudosan Yokobori Building.
2006 February ASAHI Chemical acquires the ISO14001 certification.
2010 March ASAHI Chemical acquires business of Bond-X products, heat-resistant adhesives and paints, from Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd.