History
- March 1936
- Established Shinko Seikeisyo in Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture, and started production of gypsum molds for Banko ware.
Soumatsu Suzuki, Founder
- March 1956
- Changed to a corporate organization and established Shinko Modeling Co., Ltd.
- March 1958
- New manufacturing factory completed
- January 1964
- Worked on the wall hangings for the Tokyo Olympic model
Olympic model wall hanging
- September 1967
- Company name changed to Shinko Porcelain Co., Ltd.
- 1969–
- Produced vases, tableware, and candle holders
- 1973-74
- Full-fledged shift from the production of vases, our former main product, to the production of glove formers
Our manufacturing site where vase and glove formers coexisted
- December 1974
- Established Nichiron Chemical Co., Ltd. and started production of work gloves.
- July 1987
- Established our local corporation Shinko Ceramics Taiwan Co., Ltd. as a manufacturing factory of glove formers in Taichung City, Taiwan..
- August 1988
- Nichiron Chemical Co., Ltd. changed its name to Shinko Ceramics Co., Ltd.
- Complete shift from pottery products to rubber glove formers
- November 1988
- Established our local corporation SNKO CERAMICS (M) SDN. BHD. in Klang, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia
- April 1989
- Our first manufacturing factory in Klang, Malaysia, began its operations with an annual production capacity of 50,000 formers
- August 1992
- A second manufacturing factory was built in Brannan Industrial Estate in Selangor, Malaysia
Handprints stamped in 1992
Our chairperson making prints of his hands on a wall
- December 1993
- Established our local corporation Shanghai Shinko Ceramics Enterprise Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China, and acquired a business license
- April 1995
- Shanghai manufacturing factory in China, started operations
Shanghai manufacturing factory
- August 1996
- Merged with Shinko Porcelain Co., Ltd. to form Shinko Ceramics Co., Ltd.
- April 1997
- New company building completed
- May 1998
- Phase two of construction of the Shanghai manufacturing factory in China, completed
- December 1999
- Malaysia manufacturing factory acquired ISO9002: 1994
- 2000
- Malaysia manufacturing factory acquired ISO9001: 2000
- April 2001
- Established the clay manufacturing factory Shanghai Seiko Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China, and developed our own brand clay
- November 2004
- Expanded the second Brannan manufacturing factory in Malaysia and integrated it with the Klang manufacturing factory; annual production capacity was 600,000 formers
Malaysia manufacturing factory
- December 2004
- Closed Shinko Ceramics Taiwan Co., Ltd. in Taichung, Taiwan
- June 2005
- Shanghai manufacturing factory in China acquired ISO9001: 2000
- 2005
- Established dry box ceramic former mass production system at Shanghai manufacturing factory in China
- March 2006
- 50th anniversary of the company (70 years in business)
- 2008
- Malaysia manufacturing factory acquired ISO9001: 2008
- 2010
- Annual production capacity of one million formers at the Malaysia manufacturing factory
- July 2011
- Shanghai manufacturing factory in China acquired ISO9001: 2008
- May 2015
- Changed the name of the Malaysia manufacturing factory to SHINKO CERAMICS (M) SDN. BHD.
- May 2015
- Annual production capacity of 500,000 formers at the Shanghai manufacturing factory in China
- March 2016
- Malaysia manufacturing factory expanded to establish a production system of two million formers per year
- July 2018
- Established a raw materials manufacturing factory in Malaysia
- January 2022
- Completion of second factory in Japan