Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Founded by Toshikazu Terasaki as a sole proprietorship

Satoshi Terazaki founded Sanyo Densen Kogyosho under private management

Renamed to Sanyo Electric Wire Industry Co., Ltd. and became a corporation

Changed the company name to Sanyo Densen Kogyo KK. Became an incorporated organization

Established: December 22, 1948

Received manufacturing license for insulated wires under the Electrical Appliance Control Regulations No. 2 and 121

Acquired a manufacturing license for insulation wires based on Article 2 (121) of the electric equipment regulation

Established a new Toda Factory in Kizawa, Toda City, Saitama Prefecture

Established a new factory, Toda Plant, in Kizawa, Toda City, Saitama Prefecture.

Expanded and renovated Toda Factory and relocated the sales department from the head office

Relocated the sales department from the main office in accordance with additions and modifications to the Toda Plant

Newly established Urawa Plant with company housing in Bessho, Urawa City.

Renamed to Sanyo Denko Co., Ltd. and increased capital to 10,000,000 yen

Changed the company name to Sanyo Denko Co., Ltd. Increased the capital to 10 million yen

Traffic Safety and Nuisance Research Institute, railway vehicle materials. Passed combustion testing and flame-retardant testing

Participated in the development of cold-resistant polar cables for the South and North Poles

Participated in development of cold-resistant arctic cables for the South and North Poles

Participated in the Sea Topia project through the development of deep-sea measurement cables

Participated in development of deep sea measuring cables, called the Seatopia Plan.

Succeeded in development of high-tension cables for vessels.

Ultra-high-speed surveillance camera cables were installed on the US Space Shuttle Challenger

Our ultra-high-speed monitoring camera cables were installed in the Space Shuttle “Challenger” in the United States.

Hiroyuki Terasaki was appointed as President

Hiroyuki Terazaki assumed the post of President.

Obtained UL standards and started custom production of UL cables

Certified by the UL standards and started build-to-order manufacturing of UL cables.

Collaboration on the development of cables for hybrid vehicles

Cooperated for development of hybrid vehicle cables.

Capital increased to 10,400,000 yen

Increased the capital to 10.4M yen.

Development of high-tension cables for window cleaning robots: adopted at Tokyo International Forum and JR Kanazawa Station new station building

Developed high-tension cables for window-cleaning robots.

Adopted in buildings of the Tokyo International Forum and the Japan Railway’s new Kanazawa Station.

High-strength cables adopted for train warning systems such as JR East Japan

Our high-tension cables were adopted by the East Japan Railway Company to be used for warning devices in trains.

Implementation of production, sales, and accounting management systems to achieve speedy manufacturing management

Introduced production / sales / accounting management systems to implement speedy management for manufacturing.

Development and sales of the Sunluma series of lighting cables

Developed and released a series of light fixture cables, “SAN-Lumina.”

Acquired two patents related to high-strength electric wire cords

Seismic reinforcement work carried out on part of the Toda factory buildings

Jun Kobayashi assumes the position of president

Obtained two patents on high-tension resistant wire cord.

Jun Kobayashi assumed the post of President.

Development and sales of the multi-point temperature sensor integrated with cables, Sansa-Remo: obtained two patents related to identification technology using braided wires

Developed and released of cable-integrated multi-point temperature sensor “SAN-Thermo”.

Obtained two patents on identification technology using braided wires.

Keisei Igawa assumes the position of president

Michinari Ikawa assumed the post of President.

Capital reduction carried out in December (capital stock 10 million yen)