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| 1933 | Established by Terukichi Kikuchi to manufacture ingredients for bacterial culture media |
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| 1952 | Kyokuto Pharmaceutical Industrial Co., Ltd. is reorganized as a Japanese Corporation |
| 1962 | Fuchu plant in Fuchu City, Tokyo, is completed |
| 1965 | RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis) test is begun to sell for the first time in Japan |
| 1972 | Culture media for mycobacterium susceptibility test (based on the micro-titer method) is begun to sell |
| 1974 | Hiroshi Kikuchi take up President's post with the company |
| 1979 | “Vitalmedia,” a prepared plated media series is begun to sell |
| 1982 | SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co., Ltd. invested capital in |
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| 1983 | Sialic acid test based on the enzymatic method—the first of its kind worldwide—is begun to sell |
| 1987 | “ASF media,” a serum-free culture media, is begun to deal in collaboration with Ajinomoto |
| 1988 | Takahagi plant is completed; all production and research capabilities are concentrated in Takahagi |
| 1989 | “Premedia,” based on dry-granule technology, is begun to sell |
| 1991 | “MTX-LDH,” a microtoxicity test, is begun to deal in collaboration with RIKEN “SIB prepared plated media” is begun to sell for O157 detection US subsidiary company KPI is established |
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| 1992 | “DDH Mycobacterium” and “DDH Legionella,” both based on a gene-based test method, are begun to sell as the first products of their kind in the world |
| 1993 | “Medi-ace TPLA,” for the detection of TP (Treponema pallidum) antibody, is begun to deal for automated analysis; it is now the market leader in this assay field in Japan |
| 1997 | ASTY (Antifungal Susceptibility Testing for Yeast) is begun to sell |
| 1999 | Head office building in Nihonbashi Kobuna-cho, Tokyo, is completed |
| 2000 | Takahagi plant achieves ISO9001 certification “Myco-acid,” for mycobacterium testing, is begun to sell |
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| 2001 | Marketing begins for eBioscience research reagents .“Broth MIC NTM” for detecting NT mycobacterium commercialized as first product in the world) |
| 2002 | “Broth MIC NTM,” for drug-sensitivity test of NT mycobacterium, is begun to sell as the first product of its kind in the world |
| 2003 | “Kyokuto Opto-panel” is begun to sell as a drug-sensitivity test for general microorganisms |
| 2005 | Takahagi plant achieves ISO13485 certification as QMS for medical devices Operations for PRONES, an EPR system, are initiated |
| 2007 | “Q-Line Kyokuto Legionella”, the first immunochromatographic test kit product, produced at Kyokuto Takahagi plant expanded; can now produce over 22 million plates of prepared culture media annually Takahagi plant achieves ISO14001 certification |
| 2008 | “CT-RMAC prepared plate media” is begun to sell for O26 detection |
| 2009 | “Color Cardina prepared plate media” is begun to sell “DD Checker series”, contact plates, are begun to sell for food testing |