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Corporate profile

As of April 4,2022

Company name

GOO Chemical Co., Ltd.

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Representative

Haruki Fujimura, President & Representative Director

Established

November 1953

Capital

¥100 million

Sales

¥6,730 million (Year ended March 31, 2022)

Head Office location

58 Ijiri, Iseda-cho, Uji City, Kyoto 611-0043
TEL: +81-774-46-7777
FAX: +81-774-43-3552

Sales offices

Hokuriku Sales Office (Komatsu City, Ishikawa Pref.)

Factories

Headquarters, Factory (Iseda-cho, Uji City, Kyoto)
Fukui Factory (Mikuni-cho, Sakai City, Fukui Pref.)
Shiga Factory (Hino-cho, Gamou-gun, Shiga Pref.)

Business

Manufacture and sale of specialty chemical industrial products (Oiling agents and sizing agents for textiles, resin for the electronics industry, resin for cosmetics, other industrial resins, etc.)

Number of Employees

236

History

November 1953

Establishes GOO Chemical Co., Ltd. in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto City for the manufacture and sale of chemicals, oil products and agricultural processing products for the chemical industry, industrial application and agriculture
Also opens Hokuriku Branch Office in Nomi-gun, Ishikawa Pref.

June 1958

Transfers Hokuriku Branch Office to Doiharamachi, Komatsu City, Ishikawa Pref. and upgrades it to sales office

November 1959

Starts research into acrylic acid ester sizing agent for synthetic fiber

April 1964

Starts research into resin for cosmetics

June 1967

Transfers Head Office and factory to Uji City, Kyoto Pref. (current location)

May 1971

Concludes technical licensing agreement for the company's synthetic sizing agents with Taiwan-based Eternal Chemical Co., Ltd. (technical tie-up continues to this day)

August 1979

Starts research into chemical agents for the electronics industry

February 1983

Establishes GOO Unyu Co., Ltd. as a subsidiary (currently a consolidated subsidiary) in Uji City, Kyoto Pref.
(Changes name to GOO LOGISTICS Co., Ltd. in January 1993)

October 1986

Transfers Hokuriku Sales Office to Arakida-machi, Komatsu City, Ishikawa Pref. (current location)

August 1987

Constructs electronic materials technical center at Head Office to research chemical agents for the electronics industry

June 1988

Opens Tokyo Branch Office in Chuo-ku, Tokyo

December 1991

Transfers Tokyo Branch Office to Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

October 1992

Constructs Fukui Factory in Mikuni-cho, Sakai City, Fukui Pref.

November 1996

Lists shares on Kyoto Stock Exchange

March 1999

Constructs Shiga Factory in Hino-cho, Gamou-gun, Shiga Pref.

July 2000

Obtains quality assurance standard ISO 9002 certification at all business locations

November 2000

Changes name of Tokyo Branch Office to Tokyo Sales Office

March 2001

Lists shares on Second Section of Osaka Securities Exchange (currently Second Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange following market integration)

August 2003

Obtains ISO 9001 certification (2000 edition) (all business locations)

March 2004

Obtains ISO 14001 certification at Shiga Factory

December 2010

Transfers Tokyo Sales Office to Kaji-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (current location)

September 2013

Starts operation of gas-engine co-generation system

July 2015

Reconstruction of the Fukui Factory Office ridge

December 2016

Establishes joint venture EMINENT MATERIALS CORPORATION P.O in Taiwan

March 2018

Constructs Plant No.5 at Fukui Factory

August 2019

Obtains ISO 14001 certification in all business locations.

November 2021

Constructs New Headquarters / R&D  building

February 2022

Constructs Plating Additive Plant at Fukui Factory

March 2022

Closes Tokyo Sales Office

April 2022

Lists shares on Standard Market of Tokyo Stock Exchange following market restructure

April 2022

Delists shares from Standard Market of Tokyo Stock Exchange

July 2023

Relocates Hokuriku Sales Office to the Fukui factory

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