{"id":55,"date":"2021-10-14T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sassanwa.co.jp\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2022-12-01T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T05:23:41","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sassanwa.co.jp\/en\/company\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/th>1895<\/td>Koroku Hirose founded Hirose Trading in Osaka specializing in sales of mineral oil and Shimizu-style rice hullers<\/td><\/tr>
<\/th>1906<\/td>Hirose Trading started dealing byproducts (tar, pitch) of city gas production for use as road pavement materials which was produced by Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. (Now Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.)<\/td><\/tr>
<\/th>1930<\/td>Started selling tar and pitch to Kokusan Hiryo KK<\/td><\/tr>
July<\/th>1931<\/td>Kansai Carbide Sales Co., Ltd. established, with Hirose Trading taking part 
Koroku Hirose II) and Takashi Ueda spin off a new business from Hirose Trading, dedicated to sales of carbide for melt-cutting<\/td><\/tr>
November<\/th>1937<\/td>Koroku Hirose II jointly established Sanwa Trading within the Osaka branch of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. under joint investment (capital of 3,000 yen) with Shinichi Hayashi , Takeo Yamada and Takashi Ueda. 
In 1938, the headquarters was moved to Osaka<\/td><\/tr>
November<\/th>1946<\/td>Started selling high pressure gases<\/td><\/tr>
April<\/th>1948<\/td>Sanwa Trading undertakes personnel associated with carbide companies that were closed after World war\u2161, and was reorganized as Sanwa Trading Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr>
September<\/th>1951<\/td>Established the Ogaki Branch.<\/td><\/tr>
July<\/th>1954<\/td>Invested to Shinwa Gas Souchi Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr>
August<\/th>1954<\/td>Started distribution of a gas cutting equipment of Tanaka Engineering Works Ltd. (Now Nissan Tanaka Corporation)<\/td><\/tr>
July<\/th>1959<\/td>Did capital investment to Ibigawa Acetylene Co., Ltd. (Now IBIDEN CHEMICAL Co., LTD)<\/td><\/tr>
September<\/th>1960<\/td>Started dealing carbon gouging rods produced by Ibigawa Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.(Now IBIDEN CO., LTD.)<\/td><\/tr>
May<\/th>1965<\/td>Started On-site acetylene gas plant #1 (our system) at Hitachi Zosen Corporation Innoshima Plant.
Established the Hiroshima branch.<\/td><\/tr>
April<\/th>1967<\/td>Started welding material sales transferred from Osaka Sanso Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Now  Air Liquide Japan Ltd.)<\/td><\/tr>
April<\/th>1971<\/td>Established the Tokyo branch.<\/td><\/tr>
February<\/th>1973<\/td>Started dealing printed circuit boards produced by Ibigawa Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (Now IBIDEN Co., Ltd.)<\/td><\/tr>
August<\/th>1973<\/td>Started on-site acetylene gas plant at  Hitachi Zosen Corporation Ariake Plant; established the Ariake Branch<\/td><\/tr>
July<\/th>1974<\/td>Started dealing ceramic fibers produced by Ibigawa Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.(Now IBIDEN CO., LTD.)<\/td><\/tr>
October<\/th>1981<\/td>Increased capital to 50 million yen<\/td><\/tr>
June<\/th>1986<\/td>Moved the headquarters to 1-10 Shinmachi, Nishi-ku, Osaka<\/td><\/tr>
November<\/th>1986<\/td>Established Kashima blanch.<\/td><\/tr>
July<\/th>1991<\/td>Celebrated the 60th anniversary and name changed to SAS SANWA Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr>
November<\/th>1994<\/td>Established RENAISSANCE SAS SANWA LIMTED, Hong Kong<\/td><\/tr>
July<\/th>1997<\/td>Donated a replica of Terracotta Warriors(Praying for recovery from The Great Hanshin Earthquake) to the Kobe Oji Zoo and received a letter of appreciation from the mayor of Kobe.<\/td><\/tr>
March<\/th>2006<\/td>Moved the headquarters to its present location (1-4-12 Itachibori, Nishi-ku, Osaka-shi)<\/td><\/tr>
March<\/th>2007<\/td>Moved the Tokyo Branch to its present location (5-9-10 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo)<\/td><\/tr>
June<\/th>2007<\/td>Acquired Bicycle Racks equipment business from Yokohama YK Pvt. Ltd.<\/td><\/tr>
November<\/th>2007<\/td>Certified ISO9001 and 14001 (JQA-QMA13435, JQA-EM5963)<\/td><\/tr>
March<\/th>2008<\/td>Established the Ogaki Branch at 5-7 Motoima, Ogaki-shi, Gifu.<\/td><\/tr>
July<\/th>2011<\/td>Established the Northern Japan Sales Office in Sendai-shi, Miyagi. <\/td><\/tr>
September<\/th>2014<\/td>Established SAS SANWA India Private Limited in Gurugram, India 
Established gas tanks for ISGEC Hitachi Zosen and started supplying gases (O2, Ar, Co2)<\/td><\/tr>
July<\/th>2021<\/td>90th anniversary of the company’s founding<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* Kashima Branch & Sendai Branch are merged Tokyo Branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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