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1938 Incorporates with capital of \4 million to manufacture metallic magnesium, caustic soda and hydrochloric acid.
1939   Starts producing metallic magnesium and caustic soda at the Shibukawa Plant.
1945  

Ceases producing metallic magnesium and starts manufacturing inorganic chemicals with caustic soda as the main product line.
1950   Launches production of trichloroethylene.
1951   Lists stock on the over-the-counter market.
1952   Begins producing perchloroethylene.
1956   Starts producing cyclohexanone.
1960   Opens Osaka sales office(branch office now).
1961   Lists stock on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
1962   Opens Nagoya sales office.
1963   Lists stock on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
1964   Commences producing cyclohexylamine.
1965   Inaugurates Mizushima Plant.
Begins producing dicyclohexylamine.
1967   Starts producing 1,1,1-trichloroethane and vinylidene chloride.
1968   Opens the Fukuoka sales office.
1970   Introduces first hydrofluoric acid electrolysis technologies to Japan.
Launches production of sodium hypochlorite.
1971   Begins producing sulfur hexafluoride and aluminum chloride.
1977  

Commences producing reprographics carriers.
1978  

Initiates production of N-phenylcyclohexylamine.

1979   Begins production of magnetic alloy powders and iodine pentafluoride.
1981   Starts producing carbon tetrafluoride.
1983   Launches production of trifluoromethane and ties up with Höganäs AB of Sweden to produce spherical magnetite carriers.
1984   Commences producing octafluoropropane.
1986   Commences production of tungsten hexafluoride.
Completes switchover at Shibukawa and Mizushima plants to new ion-exchange membrane cell method of electrolytic caustic soda production from mercury cell method.
1987   Initiates production of nitrogen trifluoride and begins marketing Kanden F-Torr series of waste gas treatment equipment.
1988   Starts producing ferrite carriers and magnetite for pigments.
1989   Begins producing silicon tetrafluoride and hexafluoroethane.
Initiates sales of Kanden Dry chlorinated solvents for drying agents.
1995   Obtains ISO 9002 certification for five fluorochemical products at the Shibukawa Plant.
1997   Begins producing chlorine trifluoride.
Installs new hydrofluoric acid electrolytic equipment at the Mizushima Plant.
Starts producing lithium hexafluorophosphate.
1998   Obtains ISO 9002 certification for the Mizushima plants.
1999   Obtains ISO 14002 certification for the Mizushima plants.
2000   Obtains ISO 9001 certification for the Shibukawa and Mizushima plants.
Establishes Kanto Denka Korea Co.,Ltd.
2002 Establishes Taiwan Representive Office.
2004 Establishes Taiwan Kanto Denka Co.,Ltd .
2005 Ceases producing magnetic alloy powders.
Shibukawa Plant withdraws from soda electrolyte business, which is transferred to a single-factory system at the Mizushima Plant.
Begins marketing hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene and fluoroethylene carbonate.
2010 Begins marketing Monofluoromethane, Carbonyl fluoride and Carbonyl sulfide.
2011 Establishes Kanto Denka Kogyo(Shanghai)Co.,Ltd.