History

Ran a start-up private business SATO HAGANE store in Kayaba-cho Tokyo

Reorganized SATO HAGANE store into SATOSHOJI partnership firm (capital: 0.3 million yen)

Established SATOSHOJI Corporation (capital: 5 million yen)

Established Osaka branch, Niigata branch, Akita branch, and Fukushima branch

Established an industrial plant for our western tableware
Started to delivered tableware for airline food to JAL

Established Nagoya branch

Established Sanshinkogyo Co., Ltd

Established Japan clutch Co., Ltd
Established Hiroshima branch

Listed second section of Tokyo stock market
Established Hamamatsu branch and Shiga branch

Established Sapporo branch (Currently, Sapporo LIFE branch)

Established Ota branch

Established Nagoya zakka branch (Currently, Nagoya LIFE branch)

Established Osaka-Minami zakka branch (Currently, Osaka LIFE branch)

Established Kanagawa branch

Established Hiroshima zakka branch (Currently, Hiroshima LIFE branch)

Established Nagaoka branch
Established Saitama branch and Fukuoka zakka branch (Currently, Fukuoka LIFE branch)

Completed Kanagawa coil center
Established Kumamoto branch and Yamagata branch

Received Good design award of stacking ashtray
Established Hokuetsu branch

Established Tochigi branch

NKK assigned SATOSHOJI Corporation as the first order company

Complete Tochigi coil manufacturing center

Listed the first section of Tokyo stock market from the second section

Established Niigata distribution center

Contract distributorship agreement with DANSK

Established Indonesia representative office
Established Tosu branch (Currently, Kyushu branch)

Received Good design award of kitchenware

70th Anniversary

Established Koriyama branch

Established Iwate office (Currently, Iwate branch)
Established SATO Niigata manufacturing center Co., Ltd and made it our subsidiary (Currently, NK TECH K.K.)

Made Yuasa steel industry Co., Ltd our subsidiary (Currently, Metal-act Co., Ltd)

Established Electronic materials Dept (Currently, Electronics Dept)
Established Hong Kong SATOSHOJI Overseas affiliated company and made it our subsidiary

Established Shanghai representative office
Established Business development section (Currently, Business development Dept)

Established Tomakomai branch
Established SATO SHOJI (THAILAND) CO., LTD. and made it our subsidiary
Established Shanghai-Sasho Trade Co., Ltd and made it our subsidiary

Established UNT JAPAN (Currently, SATO GENETEC CORPORATION)
Established Okayama-steel stock center

Established Toyama branch

Moves Head Quarters to Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
80th Anniversary
Established SATO SHOJI (VIETNAM) CO., LTD. and made it our subsidiary
Established Nagoya-steel stock center
Established SATO SHOJI KOREA CO.,LTD. and made it our subsidiary
Established SATO CHEMIGLASS CORPORATION and made it our subsidiary
Established Fukushima second coil center

Established UCHIDA-SATO TECH (THAILAND) CO.,LTD. and made it our subsidiary
Established SOGABE (SUZHOU) GEAR REDUCER CO.,LTD.
Established SATO SHOJI (SHENZHEN) CO.,LTD. and made it our subsidiary
Acquired ISO14001 certification at all our offices in Japan

Established YUASA SATO (THAILAND) CO.,LTD.
Established PT.SATO-SHOJI INDONESIA and made it our subsidiary

Established Kansai-steel stock center

Established SATO TECHNO SERVICE (THAILAND) CO.,LTD.
Established DAITO KOGYO CO.,LTD. and made it our subsidiary

Established SATO SHOJI (VIETNAM) CO., LTD. HANOI BRANCH
Established SATO SHOJI SHANGHAI CO.,LTD. CHANGZHOU BRANCH
Established SATO-SHOJI INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED and made it our subsidiary

Established SATO CHEMICAL GLASS (SUZHOU) CO.,LTD.
Established PS DEVICE & MATERIAL INC.

Established SATO-SHOJI (CAMBODIA) CO.,LTD. and made it our subsidiary
Established SATO SHOJI (GUANGZHOU) CO.,LTD. and made it our subsidiary
Relocation Kanagawa coil center

Established FUJI JIDOSHA KOGYO CO.,LTD. and made it our subsidiary

Established SATO SHOJI ASIA PACIFIC PTE.LTD. and made it our subsidiary

Established POLYHOSE SATO SHOJI METAL WORKS PRIVATE LIMITED

Made HANSHIN SPECIAL STEEL CO., LTD. our subsidiary

Listed Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market

Transitioned from a company with a board of auditors to a company with an audit and supervisory committee

Made INOUE MATERIAL Co., LTD. our equity method affiliate