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. |