History

April 1968

Established as a joint-venture by Ebara Corporation(28% of capital), Ebara Infilco (27% of capital), and The Udylite Coporation (45% of capital) with total capital of 100 million yen mainly manufacturing and selling surface treatment chemicals and machines

October 1970

Established Fujisawa Plant in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture

April 1978

Established Research and Development Center inside Fujisawa Plant

December 1999

Established Taipei Branch in Taiwan

April 2000

Moved plant from Fujisawa to Joetsu of Niigata Prefecture

July 2003

Established EBARA-UDYLITE (SHANGHAI) TRADING CO., LTD. in Shanghai, China

December 2003

Became independent by MBO

September 2004

Established Guangzhou office under Shanghai subsidiary

October 2004

Established Korean office in Siheung City, South Korea

August 2005

Upgraded Korean office to Subsidiary

December 2005

Listed on the second section of Tokyo Stock Exchange

November 2006

Established Ebara-Udylite (Asia-Pacific) Co., Ltd in Chonburi prefecture, Thailand

February 2007

Established Ebara-Udylite America, S.A. DE C.V. in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, holding 51% of the whole shares

March 2007

Listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange

March 2007

Established Taiwan Ebara-Udylite Co., Ltd in Taipei, Taiwan

March 2007

Established subsidiary in Hanoi City, Vietnam

April 2007

Moved Research and Development Center from Fujisawa to Kawasaki of Kanagawa Prefectur

June 2007

Established subsidiary in Gunpo-si Gyeonggi-do, Korea

January 2008

Established a joint venture in India, holding 40% of whole shares

October 2008

Started to use the Communication name of JCU and new corporate mark

January 2009

Established a subsidiary in Shenzhen, China

March 2010

Acquired the chemical and equipment department for PCB manufacturing business from Ebara Densan Ltd.

July 2011

Established PT. JCU INDONESIA in Indonesia (consolidated subsidiary)

November 2011

Moved the headquarters to Higashiueno 4-chome, Taito-ku, Tokyo

October 2012

Changed the Company name to JCU CORPORATION

November 2012

Established JCU AMERICA, S.A. DE C.V. in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (consolidated subsidiary)

July 2014

Established Mexico Plant in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

November 2014

Acquired additional shares of PROGRESSIVE JCU CHEMICALS PVT. LTD., Changed the company name to JCU CHEMICALS INDIA PVT. LTD. (consolidated subsidiary)

November 2014

Established Cheonan Plant in Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

November 2014

Established JCU INTERNATIONAL, INC. in Michigan, USA (consolidated subsidiary)

December 2014

Established Ha Nam Plant in Ha Nam Province, Vietnam

July 2015

Established SAKURAROKU SPRING SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL TRADING CO., LTD. in Shanghai, China (consolidated subsidiary)

November 2017

Established JCU SURFACE TECHNOLOGY HUBEI CO., LTD. in Hubei, China (consolidated subsidiary)

June 2018

Established Sorapuchi Farm Corp. in Takikawa City, Hokkaido, Japan (consolidated subsidiary)