Sep.1938Founded as "Fujikura Kagaku Mfg. Co., Ltd." independently from "Fujikura Mfg. Co., Ltd. (present The FUJIKURA COMPOSITES inc.)" mainly manufacturing windshield and coatings for airplane.
Sep.1957Put on the market electroconductives "DOTITE" developed by the joint research with the Electrical Communication Laboratory of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.
Dec.1958Changed name to "Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd".
Aug.1962Listed stocks on 2nd Dept. of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Jan.1971Built and started manufacturing at Sano Plant.
Apr.2000Entered into Core Agreement with "Red Spot Paint & Varnish Co., Inc." in the U.S. and "Sonneborn & Rieck Ltd." in the U.K. to form three-way global alliance in the field of coatings for plastics technology and market.
Nov.2000Built and atarted manufacturing at Sano new Plant.
Nov.2000Certified to ISO-14001.
Mar.2001Listed stocks on 1st Dept. of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Apr.2002Established "Fujikura Kasei (Thailand) Co., Ltd." in Bangkok.
Apr.2009Acquisition of Medical materials business unit. Established Tsukuba Bio R&D Center.
Nov.2009Established "Shanghai Fujikura Kasei Coating Co., Ltd." in China.
Oct.2010Acquisition of "Sonneborn & Rieck Ltd." in the U.K. The company name of "Sonneborn & Rieck Ltd." was changed to "Fujichem Sonneborn Ltd." in Nov. 2010.
Nov.2010Established "Fujikura Kasei Coating India Private Ltd." in India.