Corporate Information
History
- TFFormer Teijin Fibers Ltd.
- NIFormer Nissho Iwai Corp.
- TSFormer Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd.
| 1869 TS | Takemura Tobee Shoten (Kyoto City) opened its Osaka branch, which began to trade raw cotton, cotton yarns and cotton fabric |
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| 1902 NITF | Iwajiro Suzuki founded Suzuki & Company in Kobe |
| 1912 NI | Bunsuke Iwai founded Iwai & Company |
| 1918 TF | Teikoku Rayon Co., Ltd. founded |
| 1918 TS | Takemura Tobee Shoten changed its name to Takemura Shoten Co., Ltd. |
| 1928 NI | Suzuki & Company founded a new company in the name of Nissho Company |
| 1936 TS | Takemura Mengyo Co., Ltd. was founded |
| 1943 NI | Iwai & Company changed its name to Iwai Sangyo Company Ltd. |
| 1952 TSTF | Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. was founded and began to sell rayon, staple fibers and textiles made of them |
| 1953 TS | Upon taking over Tosabori Sangyo Co., Ltd., Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. succeeded to its brokerage business in the Osaka Chemical Fiber Exchange / Upon taking over Sanyo Kosan Co., Ltd., Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. succeeded to its lumber sawing, casemaking and construction material production businesses |
| 1954 TS | Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. succeeded to the operation of the textile trading section of Nozaki & Co., Ltd. and set out on its textile export business |
| 1958 TFTS | Teikoku Rayon Co., Ltd. started producing Tetoron at the Matsuyama Factory |
| 1960 TS | Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. and Takemura Mengyo Co., Ltd. merged to form Takemura Teisho Co., Ltd. |
| 1962 TFTS | Teikoku Rayon Co., Ltd. changed its name to Teijin Ltd. |
| 1964 TS | Takemura Teisho Co., Ltd. changed its name to Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. |
| 1968 NI | Nissho Company and Iwai Sangyo Company Ltd. merged to make a new debut as Nissho Iwai Corporation |
| 1975 NI | Nissho Iwai Textile Co., Ltd. was founded |
| 1980 NI | Nissho Iwai Iryou Co., Ltd. was founded |
| 1982 NI | Nissho Iwai Textile Materials Corp. was founded |
| 1990 TS | Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. took over its four subsidiaries, i.e., Teisho Kikai Hanbai Co., Ltd., Okayama Teisho Co., Ltd., Kansai Teisho Tent Hanbai Co., Ltd. and Kanto Teisho Tent Hanbai Co., Ltd. |
| 1993 NI | Nissho Iwai Iryou Co., Ltd. changed its name to Nissho Iwai Apparel Co., Ltd. |
| 2000 NI | Nissho Iwai Textile Materials Corp. and the Textile Department of Nissho Iwai Corporation transferred their respective goodwill to Nissho Iwai Apparel Co., Ltd. |
| 2001 NI | Nissho Iwai Apparel Co., Ltd. consolidated Nissho Iwai Textile Co., Ltd. |
| 2001 NI TS | Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. and Nissho Iwai Apparel Co., Ltd. merged to form NI Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. |
| 2002 TF | Teijin Fibers Ltd. founded |
| 2012 TF NI TS | N.I. Teijin Shoji Co., Ltd. and an apparel SBU of Teijin Fibers Ltd. merged to form Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd. |
| 2017 | In April, Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd. consolidated the polyester fibers business of Teijin Limited's High Performance Fibers Business Unit. |
| 2021 | In April,Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd.took over its subsidiary,Toho Textile Co., Ltd. |
