History

1900

Established Rising Sun Oil Company
(Began transportation of petroleum products by Uyeno Group)

1948

Changed company name from Rising Sun Oil Company to Shell Oil Company

1963

Established Shell Kagaku Seihin Hanbai

1964

Established Nippon Teepol

1967

Established Shell Kagaku

1968

Changed company name from Shell Kagaku Seihin Hanbai to Shell Kosan

1970

Opened Kakegawa Plant

1979

Established Yuka Shell Epoxy

1983

Opened Himeji Chemical Terminal

1985

Merged Shell Oil Company and Showa Oil to form Showa Shell Sekiyu

1987

Established Shell JSR Elastomers
Opened Yokohama Chemical Terminal

1991

Opened Tsukuba Laboratory

1992

Merged Shell Kosan and Shell Kagaku etc. to form Shell Japan

1995

Opened Kashima EPS Plant

1996

Office relocation to Daiba Frontier Building

1999

Established Japan Chemtech, which is 70 percent owned by Uyeno Group and 30 percent owned by Shell Japan

2001

Changed company name from Shell Japan to Shell Chemicals Japan accompanying business integration with Shoseki Kasei, which is chemical products sales company of Showa Shell Sekiyu

2018

Changed company name to Oxalis Chemicals depending on takeover its entire shares by Uyeno Group

2019

Merged Oxalis Chemicals and Japan Chemtech to form new “Oxalis Chemicals”

2020

Office relocation to Kasumigaseki Building

2023

Singapore Branch opened