History
SANWA HISTORY
A walk-through of the history of Sanwa Group. (approx. 2 min.)
1950's
| 1956 | Established Sanwa Shutter Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (President: Manji Takayama), a predecessor of this company, in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. |
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| 1959 | Established Sanwa Shutter Co., Ltd. with branches in Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya and Fukuoka. |
1960's
| 1961 | Established Sanwa Shoji Co., Ltd. |
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| 1963 | Merged three Group companies and established Sanwa Shutter Corporation. Relocated headquarters to Tokyo. Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
| 1968 | Listed on the Second Section of the Osaka Securities Exchange. Relocated headquarters to Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. |
| 1969 | Established Sanwa Door Industrial Co., Ltd. |
Products
1970's
| 1970 | Listed on the First Section of both the Tokyo and Osaka Stock exchanges. |
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| 1974 | Merged Sanwa Door Industrial Co., Ltd. Entered into technical tie-up with Overhead Door Corporation (U.S.A). Relocated headquarters to Shinjuku Mitsui Bldg., Tokyo. |
Products
1980's
| 1981 | Toshitaka Takayama becomes President. |
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| 1982 | started 24-hour service. |
| 1984 | Began sales of facades for stores by Showa Front Sales Co., Ltd. (now Showa Front Co., Ltd.) |
| 1986 | Established SANWA SHUTTER (HK) LTD. in Hong Kong. |
| 1987 | Established Sanwa Exterior Co., Ltd. |
| 1988 | Changed fiscal year end to March 31. Established An-Ho Metal Industrial Co., Ltd. in Taiwan. |
Products
1990's
| 1990 | Acquired stake in automatic door company Showa Kensan Co., Ltd. |
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| 1992 | Established Sun Metal Co., Ltd. in Thailand. |
| 1996 | Okinawa Sanwa Shutter Corporation began sales after being split off from Okinawa Regional Business Division. Established Sanwa USA Inc. and acquired Overhead Door Corporation, a leading U.S. manufacture of garage doors and commercial doors. Established PT. Sanwamas Metal Industry in Indonesia. |
| 1999 | Acquired 100% of the shares of Tajima Junzo Seisakusho Co., Ltd., (renamed Sanwa Tajima Corporation) the top brand of stainless steel architectural materials. |
Products
2000's
| 2000 | Established Sanwa Tajima Corporation as a stainless steel product sales company, and integrated it with the sales division of Tajima Junzo Seisakusho Co., Ltd. Transferred Sanwa Exterior Co., Ltd.'s sales operations to Sanwa Shutter Corporation and its production operations to Sanwa Exterior Niigata Plant Co., Ltd. |
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| 2003 | Acquired Novoferm, Europe's second-largest manufacturer of doors and shutters. With this acquisition, Sanwa Shutter established a presence in Europe, as well as Japan and the United States. Acquired 100% of the shares of Venix Co., Ltd., strengthening the partition business. |
| 2004 | Occurrence of fatal accident involving an automatic revolving door manufactured by Group company Sanwa Tajima Corporation. Established an internal office on Corporate Social Responsibility to oversee risk management, legal compliance and environment-friendly policies. Start of Safety and Quality Inspection Week. |
| 2005 | Established "Safety Pledge Day" (March 26) Entered into comprehensive business alliance with Hochiki, a leading fire detection and disaster-prevention equipment company in Japan. Acquired 100% of the shares of Tajima Metal Work Co., Ltd., strengthening sales of stainless steel products. |
| 2006 | Sanwa Shutter celebrated its 50th anniversary. Established Shanghai Baochan-Sanwa Door Co., Ltd., a joint venture with Baosteel Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Baosteel, in Shanghai to manufacture and sell overhead doors, rolling shutters and sheet shutters. |
| 2007 | The Sanwa Group adopts holding company system. Sanwa Shutter Corporation changed its trade name to "Sanwa Holdings Corporation", and the operating company succeeded the trade name "Sanwa Shutter Corporation". |
| 2008 | Sanwa Holdings agreed to establish a joint-venture company, Vina-Sanwa Company Liability Ltd., with the Vietnamese construction and trading company Vinaconex Corporation. Sanwa Holdings acquired 100% of the shares of Hayashi Kogyo Co., Ltd., a steel door manufacturing company. |
| 2009 | Overhead Door Corporation, our consolidated subsidiary, acquired the door businesses of Wayne Dalton Corporation. |
2010's
| 2011 | Overhead Door Corporation acquired an automatic door sales, installation, and maintenance business from Automatic Door Enterprises, Inc., an automatic door distributor in the U.S. Domestic partition business (Venix) and sales operations of automated door business (Showa Kensan) integrated into Sanwa Shutter Corporation. Overhead Door Corporation acquired 100% of the shares of Creative Door Services Ltd., strengthening the door services business in North America. |
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| 2012 | Overhead Door Corporation acquired Door Control, Inc., strengthening the automatic door services business. Overhead Door Corporation acquired Advanced Door Automation, LLC., strengthening the automatic door services business. |
| 2013 | Overhead Door Corporation acquired Texas Access Controls Inc., strengthening the automatic door services business. |
| 2014 | Acquired 100% of the shares of Sanwa Electronics Engineering Co., Ltd. Novoferm acquired Alpha Deuren International B.V.(Neth), strengthening the industrial door business. ODC acquisition of Horton Automatics of Ontario, strengthening Automatic door service business. |
| 2015 | Acquired the door business of Mitaka Kogyo and established Sanwa Mitaka Co.,Ltd. |
| 2016 | Shifted from a "company with an Audit & Supervisory Board" to a "company with an Audit & Supervisory Committee". Novoferm Group acquired all of the shares of Norsud Gestion SAS of France. |
| 2017 | Acquired additional shares of Novoferm UK Limited and made it awholly owned subsidiary. Acquired the pertition business of Nihon Spindle Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and established Sanwa Spindle Co.,Ltd. (renamed Sanwa System Wall Co., Ltd.,) |
| 2018 | Novoferm Group acquired Bolton Gate Services Ltd., strengthening the service business in the UK. Establishment of Osaka Plant of Sanwa System Wall. |
| 2019 | Acquired Robust AB (Sweden)to expand our presence in the UK and Scandinavia Acquired LIXIL SUZUKI SHUTTER CORPORATION (renamed SUZUKI SHUTTER CORPORATION) |
2020's
"Taifu(wind-resistant) Guard"
| 2021 | Acquired Won-Door Corporation, a leading horizontal sliding door company of USA. Nofoverm Group acquired Manuregion S.A.S., a distributor of industrial products in France. |
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| 2022 | Moved from the TSE 1st section to the TSE Prime market Acquired AUB (Hong Kong), the first M&A in Asia |
| 2023 | Acquired Door Control, Inc. and Door Concepts, Inc. ,automatic door service and installation company of USA. Established Sanwa Facade Laboratory Corporation and inherited the facade business of Sanwa Tajima Corporation through an absorption-type company split |