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Company History
(as of April 1, 2010)
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Former Nikko Shoji |
Former Cactus Chemicals |
| 1948 |
Establishment of Toho Shoji Co., Ltd. as a designated company for sale of copper manufactured by Nippon Mining Co., Ltd. (now known as JX Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.) |
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| 1949 |
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Establishment of Tokyo Sanso Co., Ltd. for sales of sulfuric acid and other chemical products |
| 1979 |
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Renamed Cactus Chemicals Co., Ltd. |
| 1983 |
Corporate name changed to Nikko Shoji Co., Ltd. |
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| Present Nikko Shoji |
October 1,
1997 |
Amalgamation of Nikko Shoji Co., Ltd. and Cactus Chemicals Co., Ltd. to form the new company Nikko Shoji Co., Ltd. |
| August 2001 |
Established Nikko Metals Shanghai Co., Ltd. in Shanghai (5% owned by present Nikko Shoji) |
| January 1, 2006 |
Established Nikko Shoji Taiwan Co., Ltd. in Taoyuan, Taiwan (consolidated in April 2008) |
| June 26, 2006 |
Established Shenzhen Nikko Shoji Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, China (70% owned by present Nikko Shoji) |
| April 1, 2007 |
Absorbed Nikko Metal Plating Co., Ltd. |
| April 2007 |
Established Materials Service Complex Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (40% owned by present Nikko Shoji) |
| April 2008 |
Group companies of Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. in Taiwan were integrated into Nikko Metals Taiwan Co., Ltd. (15% owned by present Nikko Shoji) |
| April 2010 |
Established Vietnam Representative Office |
| JX Group (Former Nippon Mining Holdings Group) |
| December 1905 |
Fusanosuke Kuhara opened Hitachi Mine |
| April 1929 |
Nippon Mining Co., Ltd. was established |
| November 1992 |
Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd. was established succeeding mining and metals business from Nippon Mining Co., Ltd. |
| December 1992 |
Nippon Mining Co., Ltd. and Kyodo Oil Co., Ltd. merged to create Nikko Kyodo Co., Ltd. (now, Japan Energy Corporation) |
September
2002 |
Japan Energy and Nippon Mining & Metals jointly established Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc. as their holding company |
| April 2010 |
Establishment of JX Holdings, Inc., through the business integration of Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc. and Nippon Oil Corporation |
| July 2010 |
The core member companies of JX Holdings, Inc. are JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation. |
Nikko Shoji is core trading company in the JX Nippon Mining & Metals Group |
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