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■1941
Started production and sale of industrial furnaces as Toyo Kanetsu Kogyo K.K.
Began production and sales of industrial furnaces
■1950
Began Storage Tank Business
■1955
Established conveyor factory in Yokohama
■1958
Fabrication Shop certified by API (American Petroleum Institute)
■1968
Became a member of API
■1969
Completed installation of Distribution Center for the retail industry
Changed the company name to Toyo Kanetsu K.K. (TKK)
■1970
Registered as a listed company at Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section
■1971
Established Chiba Plant, the largest production capacity with its 200,000M2 land
area and 350-meter long wharf
■1974
Established Joint Venture Company, P.T. Toyo Kanetsu Indonesia
■1978
Completed construction of four units of 128,000M3 above ground double wall LNG
Storage Tanks in Arun, Indonesia
■1981
Completed the first Digital Picking System in Japan
■1989
Began Architectural Engineering
■1990
Completed the latest Case Sorting and Handling System at New Tokyo Post Office
■1991
Celebrated the 50th Anniversary
■1992
Established Joint Venture Company, Toyo Kanetsu (Malaysia) SDN.BHD.
Installed baggage handling system for Terminal 2 at New Tokyo International
Airport (Narita)
■1994
Plant & Machinery Division awarded ISO 9001 Certificate
■1998
Completed the world's largest Baggage Handling System at Kuala Lumpur
International Airport in Malaysia
Completed installation of automatic picking system for cigarettes
■1999
Material Handling System Division awarded ISO 9001 Certificate
■2000
Completed one unit of 180,000M3 Full Containment Pre-stressed Concrete Wall
Above Ground LNG Storage Tank in Osaka, Japan
Logistics Grand Prix awarded by The Japan Institute of Logistics Systems
■2001
The Architectural Engineering Section became Architecture & Housing Division
■2002
The Material Handling Division became the independent subsidiary company of
Toyo Kanetsu K.K. as Toyo Kanetsu Solutions K.K.
Entered into Strategic Business Alliance with Siemens Dematic. Created Toyo
Kanetsu Solutions K.K., a logistics solution provider
■2005
Plant & Machinery Division awarded JAPEIC-PCC Certificate of welding
management process to manufacture (weld) the Electrical Facilities defined in the
Japanese Electricity Utilities Industrial Law.
■2006
Completed one unit of 188,000M3 Full Containment Pre-stressed Concrete Wall
Above Ground LNG Storage Tank in Darwin, Australia
■2008
Toyo Kanetsu Indonesia(TKI) obtained JAPEIC-PCC certificate for the welding management process stipulated in the Japanese Electricity Business Act.