| Years |
Item |
| April 1941 |
Four wholesalers designated by Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. were merged to establish Igeta Steel Pipe Sales Co., Ltd. for handling mainly steel tubes and pipes. |
| March 1944 |
Company name was changed to Igeta Steel Pipes Co., Ltd. to handle not only all products manufactured by Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., but also general iron and steel products, steel castings and forgings, special steel products, nonferrous metal products, machinery and a wide variety of industrial materials, with an emphasis on steel tubes and pipes. |
| October 1962 |
Company name was changed to Sumikin Bussan Kaisha, Ltd. and the company was merged with Yamamoto Kogyo Co., Ltd., which handled a variety of iron and steel products as one of the wholesalers affiliated with Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. and the new company made a start as a trading firm directly and exclusively affiliated with Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. |
| November 1967 |
Company was merged with Masutani & Co., Ltd., which handled the products manufactured by the Kokura Steel Works of Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., in order to strengthen the company's sales base. |
| April 1993 |
Company was merged with Itoman Corporation and succeeded to the trade rights to textiles and foodstuffs. Stocks of the company were registered as OTC(over-the-counter) supervised issues of the Japan Securities Dealers Association. |
| December 1994 |
Registration of stocks was changed from OTC supervised issues to OTC listed issues of the Japan Securities Dealers Association. |
| December 1996 |
Stock shares were approved to be listed on the First Section of the Osaka Securities Exchange. |
| December 2006 |
Stock shares were approved to be listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Securities Exchange. |
