Company History
| 2018 | Acquisition of shares of SunPine AB | |
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| 2016 | Sunpine's Tall Oil Rosin production facility in Sweden operated in full swing. Annual manufacturing capability of Tall Oil Rosin reached 20,000 tons. | |
| 2015 | Sunpine's Tall Oil Rosin production facility in Sweden started trial run. Lawter is an investor in this business. | |
| 2014 | Takasago-Iho Solar Power Plant is completed in Takasago, Hyogo | |
| Completion of Nanoparticle Factory at Kakogawa Plant | ||
| LAWTER invested in a tall oil rosin production business in Sweden. | ||
| 2012 | Trade name changed to Harima Chemicals Group, Inc. (holding company) Business matters taken over by newly established Harima Chemicals, Inc. |
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| The Establishment of Harima Chemicals (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. | ||
| 2011 | LAWTER Inc. established its headquarters in Chicago, USA. | |
| Production start at Dongguan Hanghua Harima Paper Chemicals Co., Ltd. | ||
| Acquired rosin base resin (IAR) business of Momentive Specialty Chemicals, Inc to establish LAWTER. | ||
| 2009 | Dec. | Harima made Xinyi Rihong Plastic Chemical Co., Ltd., its owned subsidiaries. |
| Oct. | Harima made Nippon Filler Metals. Ltd. its owned subsidiary. | |
| 2008 | Dec. | Taking over of Georgia-Pacific Chemicals' rosin sizing agents business. (by Harima's subsidiary Plasmine in the US) |
| 2007 | Feb. | Established Harimatec Czech, s.r.o. (Czech Republic) |
| 2006 | Jun. | ISO 14001 certification achieved (Ibaraki Plant) |
| 2005 | Jul. | Established Nanning Harima Chemicals Co., Ltd. (currently LAWER – Nanning) (China) |
| Mar. | Harima launched the biomass power generation system utilizing a by-product as fuel, produced from tall oil distillation. | |
| 2004 | Jun. | ISO 14001 certification achieved (Tokyo Plant) |
| 2003 | Dec. | Established Harimatec Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia) |
| Sep. | Established Harimatec Inc. (USA) | |
| Feb. | Established Harimatec Hangzhou Co., Ltd. (China) | |
| 2002 | Aug. | Completion of electronic materials production facility at Kakogawa Plant |
| Apr. | ISO 14001 certification achieved (Fuji Plant) | |
| 2000 | Jun. | ISO 14001 certification achieved (Kakogawa Plant) |
| 1999 | Jun. | ISO 9001 certification achieved by entire company |
| 1997 | Nov. | Celebrated 50 years in business |
| Oct. | Established Hangzhou Hanghua-Harima Paper Chemicals Co., Ltd. (China) | |
| 1996 | Apr. | Harima obtained a sole ownership of Plasmine Technology to make Plasmine a fully owned subsidiary. |
| 1990 | Sep. | Relisted on first section of the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges |
| Apr. | Name changed to Harima Chemicals, Inc. | |
| Mar. | Harima invested in US-based Plasmine Technology, Inc. | |
| 1989 | Mar. | Listed on the second section of the Tokyo stock exchange |
| 1985 | Nov. | Listed on the second section of the Osaka stock exchange |
| 1983 | Mar. | Shorai Foundation for Science and Technology founded |
| 1980 | Feb. | Established Harima USA, Inc. (America) |
| 1974 | Aug. | Established Harima do Brasil Indústria Química Ltda. (Brazil) |
| 1973 | Aug. | Completion of world's first tall oil closed-system plant |
| 1972 | Jan. | Harima M.I.D., Inc. founded |
| 1958 | Oct. | Completion of Japan's first tall oil distillation plant |
| 1952 | Jan. | Trial production of tall oil begins |
| 1947 | Nov. | Harima Chemicals Industries, Inc. founded (in present-day Kakogawa, Hyogo prefecture) |