Timeline

1904	Sadajiro Shima founded the Shima Company in Higashi-ku (now Chuo-ku), Osaka, as an importer-exporter and wholesaler.
1911	Established Tokyo Liaison Office.
1917	Established New York Office.
1919	Reorganized as a stock company. Established Shima Trading Co., London.
1921	Reorganized as Shima Trading Co., Ltd.
1922	Started importation of Petrolatum from sonneborn & Sons, Inc., U.S.A.
1933	Sadajiro Shima & Soichiro Nishi appointed as representative director.
1935	Kinu Shima & Shigeru Yoshimura appointed as director.
1938	Established Tientsin Office in China
1939	Established Shanghai & Guangsong offices in China, and Bombay office in India.
1945	Shigeru Yoshimura appointed as a representative director.
1946	Masaru Mitsuda appointed as a representative director.
1951	Resumed importation of Petrolatum after the war. Also started import of Liquid paraffin.
1953	Started handling epoxy resins of Shell Kagaku K.K.
1955	Started handling Microclistaline Wax from P.S.I. company, U.S.A. as an exclusive distributor.
1956	Established Nagoya Office. Munetoshi Iguchi appointed as a chairman of the board.
1959	Started handling natural oil sulfonate from Sonneborn & Sons, Inc.
1963	Established Shima American Corporation in Illinois, U.S.A. Participated in establishment of Japan Pharmaceutical Traders' Associaton.
1964	Established Shima Kosan Co. Ltd.
1971	Shintaro Yoshimura appointed as a representative director.
1977	Started distribution of polyurethane adhesives made by Takeda Chemical Co., Ltd. (then)
1979	Established Taipei Liaison Office.
1985	Reconstruction of Ginza Shima Building completed.
1990	Kazuo Kotani appointed as a representative director. Started exportation of autobotive parts & equipments of Futaba Industry Co., Ltd.
1991	Reconstruction of Shima Building, Osaka, completed.
1992	Established Singapore office. Started joint development of Lithium battery separator.
1994	Koshi Shima appointed as a representative director.
1996	Established Shanghai Liaison office.
1998	Converted Shanghai Liaison Office to Shima Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
2000	Converted Singapore Branch Office to Shima Trading Singapore Pte., Ltd.
2001	Aquired ISO 14001 certification for all domestic Shima offices. Established sales office in San Jose, U.S.A.
2002	Established Pacific Sunrise Holding Co., Ltd. in Thailand (49% joint venture) Established Shima Asia Pacific Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia.
2008	Established Measuring Equipment Showroom (current Tribology Lab) in Tokyo.
2010	Established Seoul Liaison office in Korea.
2013	Established Kobe Technical Center.
2014	Established PT. Shima Trading Indonesia.
2015	Shinichiro Taki appointed as a representative director. Established Cosmetics Laboratory in Tokyo.
2018	Established Guangzhou Liaison office. Established Functional Materials Laboratory in Osaka.
2019	Kazuki Takahashi appointed as a representative director.