History

November 1933

TODA KOGYO CORP. established with ￥500,000 capital in Yokogawa, Hiroshima Prefecture, for the purpose of producing and selling Bengala.

April 1951

Took over Kutsuwa Bengala Manufacturing Corp.

April 1953

Production plant of ferrite materials newly added to Hiroshima plant.

November 1954

Took over Kibi Kogyo Corp.

October 1959

Onoda Plant built in Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

July 1969

Equipment for production of magnetic particle materials for audiotapes and videotapes added to Onoda Plant.

June 1973

Wet coloration pigment facility added to Onoda Plant.

September 1983

Shares listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.

December 1984

Plant for the production of ferrite materials (Otake Plant) built in Otake, Hiroshima Prefecture.

April 1988

Special facility to produce coloring materials for electronic printing added to Onoda Plant.

July 1994

Wholly owned subsidiary TODA KOGYO Europe GmbH established in Duesseldorf, Germany.

August 1996

Wholly owned subsidiary TODA America Incorparated established in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA.

July 1997

Okayama Plant splits off from the parent company to form TODA PIGMENT CORP..

January 2003

Wholly owned subsidiary TODA PLASTIC MAGNET MATERIAL(ZHEJIANG) CORP. established in Zhejiang Province, China

May 2003

Deqing TODA  Sanfeng Pigment Co., Ltd. established in Zhejiang Province, China.

May 2003

Equipment for production of battery materials added to Onoda Plant.

August 2004

ZHEJIANG TODA DMEGC MAGNETIC CO.,LTD. established in Zhejiang Province, China.

June 2006

Equipment for production of antenna sheets for IC tags added to Otake Plant.

October 2006

TODA FERRITE KOREA CO.,LTD. established in Busan, Korea.

April 2007

TODA Magnequench Magnetic Material(Tianjin) Co., Ltd. established in Tianjin, China.

August 2007

Battery materials business division of Germany's H.C. Starck GmbH purchased.

August 2007

Wholly owned subsidiary TODA Advanced Materials Inc. established in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada (company located in Toronto until November 2007).

March 2008

A patent license relating to the cathode material for Li-ion battery obtained from Argonne National Laboratory USA.

April 2008

TODA ISU CORPORATION established in Kangwon-Do, Korea.

June 2008

Acquired the whole shares of TOKYO SHIKIZAI INDUSTRY CO.,LTD.

March 2010

TODA America Incorporated and TODA Advanced Materials Inc. became equity method affiliates of TODA KOGYO, selling off part of their shares.

October 2011

TODA United Industrial(Zhejiang) Co.,Ltd. established in Zhejiang, China. became a consolidated subsidiary of TODA.

November 2011

Approved for DBJ’s Environmental Ratings from the Development Bank of Japan.

June 2012

TODA MAGNET(SHENZHEN)CO.,LTD. established in Shenzhen, China.

June 2014

TODA(CHINA)CO.,LTD. established in ShangHai, China.

June 2015

BASF TODA Battery Materials LLC, the joint venture company with BASF Japan Ltd., was established.