1983
| Tohoku Tosoh Chemical Co., Ltd. established
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1985
| Tosh Electronics Co., Ltd. established, sputtered hard disk production
begins
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1986
| Tosoh Susteel (PPS) production begins
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1987
| Company name changed to Tosoh Corporation
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| | U.S. joint venture firm TosoHaas established for sale of chromatography
materials
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| | Aspartame plant in the Netherlands (Holland Sweetener Company)
completed
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1988
| Acquisition of Specialty Metals Division of Varian Associates now Tosoh
SMD, Inc.
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| | Tosoh acquires equity interest in Industrial Resins (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
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1989
| Founding of Tosoh America, Inc.
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| | Establishment of Tosoh Medics, Inc.
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| | Ownership of NSG USA, Inc. transferred to Tosoh
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| | Equity participation in Weiss Scientific Glass Blowing Co., Inc.
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1990
| Tosoh/Shin-Daikyowa merger
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| | Tosoh Belgium established
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| | Equity participation in Eurogenetics
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1992
| Establishment of Nippon Silica Glass Europe
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| | Equity participation in General Chemical (Soda Ash) Partners
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1993
| Tosoh SMD completed a new focused factory
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1994
| Holland Sweetener Company quadruples capacity of aspartame plant
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| | Acquisition of outstanding equity in Eurogenetics N.V., now Tosoh Bioscience,
N.V.
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| | Establishment of Philippine Resins Industries, Inc., a joint venture company of
Tosoh, Mitsubishi Corporation, Bank of the Philippine Islands and Mabuhay
Vinyl Corporation
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1995
| Tosoh SMD Korea, Ltd. established
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| | P.T. Satomo Indovyl Polymer established
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| | Acquisition of Cryco Quartz, Inc. and Cryco Twenty-Two, Inc.
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1996
| Tosoh SMD Singapore Pte. Ltd. established
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| | Equity participation in Taiyo Vinyl Corporation
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| | Completion of Tosoh's second VCM plant
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| | Opening of NSG Europe's factory in England
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1997
| Establishment of Tosoh SMD Taiwan, Ltd.
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| | Establishment of Tosoh Asia Pte. Ltd.
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1998
| Tosoh America relocates to Ohio
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2000
| Acquired:
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| | 100% interest in Nippon Silica Glass Co., Ltd., now Tosoh Quartz Corporation
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| | 100% interest in Tosoh Akzo, now Tosoh Finechem
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| | Remaining 50% from Rohm and Hass in TosoHaas, now wholly owned Tosoh
Bioscience LLC
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| | Tosoh SET, Inc.
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