Company Outline

Company Outline

Head Office 〒541-0051
Osaka Tiger Bldg. 5F, 3-4, 4 Chome, Bingo Machi, Chuo-ku, Osaka CityMAP
Telephone 81-6-6231-3771
FAX 81-6-6231-1988
Established 25-Oct-50
Representative Seiji Miyake
Capital 100,000,000 yen
Number of employees 180
Business sites 11 sites in Japan
Affiliated companies 7
Overseas joint venture 1
List of Officers Chairman and Representative Director Takao Murayama
President and Representative Director Seiji Miyake
Senior Managing Director Rui Murayama General Manager of Purchasing Department
Director Kazushige Ikubo Tokyo Branch Office Manager
Director Hiroyuki Tanaka Wakayama Branch Office Manager / Chugoku Shikoku Branch Office Manager
Reference Banks Shoko Chukin Bank, Osaka Branch
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Bingo Cho Branch
Kansai Mirai Bank, Honmachi Sales Department
Kitakyushu Bank

History

1950 October Ichiro Torii and his staff established Seiwa Shokai Co., Ltd. in Yokobori, Higashi Ward, Osaka City.
They started a wholesale business, dealing in various organic fertilizers.
1952 January Constructed a compounding factory in Fujiidera City, Osaka.
1953 August Concluded a business alliance with Tokyo Trading Co., Ltd. (the current Mitsubishi Corporation) to purchase raw materials and sell products.
1958 November Constructed their No. 2 Fujiidera factory for the purpose of manufacturing chemical fertilizers.
1960 October Constructed the Moji factory in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka.
Started integrated production of superphosphate lime, chemical fertilizers, and compounded fertilizers.
Company name changed to the current Seiwa Fertilizer Ind., Co., Ltd.
1969 October Constructed their Wakayama factory in Nanko, Wakayama City(moved the 2nd Fujiidera factory to this location).
1971 September With a capital infusion of 20 million yen when Mitsubishi Corporation joined the business, their capital was increased to 60 million yen.
1974 December An additional 40 million yen increased their capital to 100 million yen.
1975 May Constructed their Kyushu factory in Mizumaki Machi, Onga Gun, Fukuoka(moved the Moji factory mixed-fertilizer production facility to this location).
1980 February Constructed a fertilizer manufacturing plant in Iwaki City, Fukushima.
1987 March Constructed a rental building in Fujiidera City, Osaka. (The Fujiidera Daiichi Factory was moved to the Wakayama Factory site, and its former site was used as the site of the new rental building).
September The Headquarters was moved to the current location.
1988 September Established a joint venture in Qingdao, China and started producing compounded fertilizers there.
1989 August The trading department was established as a full-fledged trading operation when the trading and organic fertilizer businesses were transferred to the parent company.
1996 July Established a joint venture in Guizhou, China where production of fused phosphate was started.
2003 July The former Moji factory and the former Kyushu factory were relocated and merged, and began operation as a new Kyushu factory in Wakamatsu Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka.
Constructed a liquid fertilizer manufacturing plant in Takahashi City, Okayama, and equipment was transferred from the Wakayama factory.
2015 October The Trading Department was reorganized into an Overseas Business Headquarters in line with the expansion of the export business, no longer limited to trading with China.
2018 July Established the Tokyo branch as a new base for the overseas business headquarters.