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Company overview

Company name

NISSO SHOJI CO., LTD.

Founded

December 6, 1939

Main businesses

Export, import and domestic sale of;
- Chemicals - Ingorganic & organic
- Polyurethanes
- Pigments
- Color formers and developpers
- Feed additives
- Eco-chemicals
- Brines(Cooling & heating media)
- Archtectural Materials(Construction, Waterproofing & insulating materials)
- Synthetic resins & Machinery
- Advance Materials & Machinery(IT & Anti corrosive FRP field)
- Semiconductors

Capital

401,165,000 yen

Sales turnover

45.6 billion yen (Fiscal year ended March 2024)

Major stockholders

NIPPON SODA CO., LTD., Sanwa Soko Co., Ltd., Nisso Engineering Co., Ltd.,
Nisso Fine Co., Ltd.

Board of Directors

Kiyotaka Machii	(President) Supervising - Oversea Business Promotion Department
Osamu Abe	(Managing Director) General Manager of Strategy Planning Division and Chief of Personnel Department
Masahito Yamamoto	(Director) General Manager of Administrative and Chief of Security Trade Control Department
Daisuke Fujita	(Director) General Manager of Chemicals Division
Mitsuru Higuchi	(Director) General Manager of Functional Items Division and General Manager of Osaka Branch
Makoto Kato	(Director) (NIPPON SODA CO.,LTD.)
Kazuo Tajima	(Standing Auditor)
Tamotsu Tanimura	(Auditor) (NIPPON SODA CO.,LTD.)

Number of employees

149 (As of March, 2024)

Banks

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Nihonbashi Branch) MUFG Bank, Ltd. (Nihonbashi Center Branch)

History

From the 1930s to the 1950s

1939	Founded as chemicals trading subsidiary of NIPPON SODA CO., LTD., with capital of 150,000 yen
1945	Opened Osaka Sales Office
1950	Increased capital to 5 million yen
1952	Increased capital to 20 million yen
1953	Opened Nagoya Liaison office
1957	Increased capital to 40 million yen
1959	Renamed Nagoya Suboffice as Nagoya Sales Office

From the 1960s to the 1970s

1964	Renamed Osaka Sales Office and Nagoya Sales Office as Osaka Branch Office and Nagoya Branch Office
1966	Organized foreign Trade Division for overseas trade business
1967	Opened Sendai Liaison Office and Hiroshima Liaison Office
1968	Renamed Sendai Liaison Office and Hiroshima Liaison Office as Sendai Sales Office and Hiroshima Sales Office
1969	Increased capital to 100 million yen
1974	Opened Fukuoka Suboffice
1979	Renamed Fukuoka Suboffice as Fukuoka Sales Office

From the 1980s to the 1990s

1980	Increased capital to 150 million yen
1982	Opened Sapporo Suboffice Established domestic subsidiary, BAIRON CO., LTD.
1983	Opened Takaoka Suboffice
1984	Increased capital to 300 million yen
1986	Established domestic subsidiary, Sani Mente Co., Ltd.
1987	Established Taiwan Liaison Office
1991	Established Nisso Shoji (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.
1992	Established Cosmo Polyurethane (HK) Co., Ltd., as the Joint Venture company in Hong Kong with Mitui Chemicals Corp. and Seven Sea Chemicals (Holdings)
1994	Opened Hong Kong Liaison Office
1995	Opened New York Liaison Office Increased capital to 401,165,000 yen

From 2000

2002	Opened Shanghai Liaison Office
2004	Established Nisso Shoji (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
2007	Established Nisso Shoji (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.
2008	Opened Europe Liaison Office