Company
History
| October 1968 | Establishment of Showa Diamond Chemical K.K. (50/50 JV between Showa Denko K.K. and Diamond Shamrock) |
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| December 1968 | Open Yokohama Works |
| September 1969 | Start Daconil Technical (chlorothalonil) production at Yokohama Works |
| May 1975 | Open Minori Agricultural Experiment Station in Ibaraki-Prefecture |
| July 1983 | Transfer of agricultural chemical business from Showa Denko, and change company name to SDS Biotech K.K. |
| Open Tokyo Research Laboratory in Tokyo | |
| August 1983 | Open Osaka Sales Office, Fukuoka Sales Office and Sapporo Sales Office |
| December 1984 | Open SDS Biotech K.K. Philippine Representative Office in Manila (currently in Davao City), Philippines |
| March 1985 | Capital withdrawal of Diamond Shamrock from SDS Biotech |
| June 1986 | Capital participation of Sandoz Group in SDS Biotech |
| July 1988 | Open Sendai Sales Office |
| September 1991 | Open Tsukuba Research & Technology Center (former Tokyo Res. Lab.) in Tsukuba Science City |
| April 1995 | Open SDS Biotech K.K. Seoul Branch in Seoul, Korea |
| April 1998 | Showa Denko's acquisition of all the common shares in SDS Biotech owned by Novartis |
| May 2000 | Showa Denko's acquisition of all the remaining stocks of SDS Biotech (100% subsidiary of Showa Denko) |
| March 2005 | Separation from Showa Denko by way of management buyout |
| December 2008 | Listed on JASDAQ Securities Exchange |
| December 2009 | Listed on Second Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange |
| June 2011 | Company converted to a consolidated subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. through a tender offer of shares |
| September 2012 | Consolidated the sales and marketing function in Japan into the Company's head office in line with reorganization on an individual product group basis (Closed each sales office) |
| January 2013 | Acquired India-based SDS Ramcides CropScience Pvt. Ltd. (former Sree Ramcides Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.) as a consolidated subsidiary |
| March 2014 | Capital participation of SDS Biotech K.K. in Jiangsu Xinhe Agrochemical Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Xinyi Taihe Chemical Co., Ltd. |
| July 2015 | Open SDS (Shanghai) Biotech Co., Ltd. in China |
| May 2018 | Transferred all shares in India-based SDS Ramcides CropScience Pvt. Ltd. |
| Aug 2021 | A wholly owned subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. through a share exchange |
| July 2022 | Business integration with Idemitsu Kosan Agricultural Biotechnology Products Business Division |
| April 2025 | A wholly owned subsidiary of Idemitsu Agrilife Holdings Co., Ltd. |