History
The history and progress of the Kurita Group
1950s
Founding and commercialization of water treatment
1949
Founded initially as a Water Treatment Chemicals business(boiler water treatment chemicals) and boiler cleaning business.
1951
Entry into the water treatment facilities business.
Established the Boiler Water Supply Laboratory in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, western Japan.
1953
Development of chemical cleaning technology for boilers.
1957
Expansion into the wastewater treatment systems.
1958
Expansion into the cooling water treatment chemicals.
Start-up of maintenance service business.
Expansion into the amenity field.
1959
Established a chemical cleaning operations company (predecessor of the former Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.)
1960s
Established the role as a “water department store” managing the comprehensive water treatment business
1961
Expansion into the wastewater treatment chemicals.
Established a water treatment facility maintenance and service company (predecessor of the former Kurita Technical Service Co., Ltd.).
Established a water treatment equipment and products company (predecessor of Kurita Creation Co., Ltd.)
1962
Established Research Center in Yokohama City, Kanagawa near Tokyo.
1963
Established an overseas division in Kurita Water Industries Ltd.
1965
Expansion into pulp and paper, petrochemical process treatment chemicals.
Built the first lazy river pool in the world to an outdoor leisure facility.
1966
Established a water treatment chemicals manufacture company(predecessor of Kurita Chemical Manufacturing Ltd.).
1967
Built the first wave pool in Japan to an outdoor leisure facility.
1970s
Contributing to environmental conservation as an environmental company
1971
Expansion into the steel process treatment chemicals.
1972
Assembled the largest reverse osmosis membranes demineralizers in the world.
Expanded business into the field of civil engineering-related chemicals.
1973
Entry into the electronics industry.
1974
Established the joint venture Hansu Co., Ltd. in South Korea.
1975
Deployment of sewerage business.
Established a water treatment facility operation and maintenance service company (predecessor of Kuritaz Co., Ltd.).
Established Kurita do Brazil LTDA, our first overseas group company.
1977
Received first order for the ultra-pure water production system using wastewater reclamation.
1978
Established Kurita (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
1979
Established Kurita Sogo Service Co., Ltd.
1980s
The rise of the electronics industry and advances in Ultrapure water production Technology
1982
Development of a deodorant for wastewater.
1985
Development of automobile paint booth chemicals.
Relocated Research Center to Atsugi City, Kanagawa, near Tokyo.
Established a water treatment chemicals company specifically targeting the Kanto area (predecessor of Kurita Kanto Ltd.).
1986
Start-up of tool cleaning business for semiconductors.
Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment Systems developed.
Established PT Kurita Indonesia.
Es (predecessor of Kuritatablished a water treatment chemicals company specifically targeting the Kansai area Kansai Ltd.).
1987
Established Kurita (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.
1988
Established Hansu Technical Service Ltd.
1989
Established Kurita Europe GmbH.
Established Goshu Chemical Co., Ltd (predecessor of Kurita-GK Chemical Co., Ltd.).
1990s
Contributing to solving Environment problems by making full use of water treatment Technology
1991
Launch of soil and groundwater remediation services.
1992
Established the world's highest level water-containing element trace analysis technology.
1994
Development of heavy metal treatment chemicals for fly ash in waste incinerators.
1995
Established Kurita Water Industries (Dalian) Co., Ltd.
1996
Established Kurita America, Inc.
1997
Merged Kurita Water Industries Ltd. and Kurita Technical Service Co., Ltd.
1998
Development of functional rince water manufacturing equipment for electronic material cleaning processes.
Assembled a demonstration facility for dry methane fermentation processing, reclaiming and creating energy from waste.
Acquired an equity stake in Hansu Technical Service Ltd.
Established the Business and Technology Development Center (predecessor of the former Kurita Global Technology Center) in Nogi-machi, Tochigi, northern Tokyo.
2000s
Started Pure water supply business as a new business
2001
Established Land Solution Inc.
Established Kuritec (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
2002
New service business: Pure water supply business launched for an LCD panel manufacturer in Singapore.
2003
Realization of 100% reclamation and recycling of wastewater in LCD panel manufacturers.
Established Kuritec Service Co., Ltd.
Established Kurita Analysis Service Co., Ltd.
2004
Established Kurita Water Industries (Suzhou) Ltd.
2006
Acquired Miyoshi Industries Co., Ltd. as a group company.
2009
Launch of ultra-pure water supply service at a large LCD complex.
Enhanced range of treatment chemicals for reverse osmosis membranes.
2010s
Accelerating expansion and globalization of service business
2012
Obtained NSF*
certification for water
treatment chemicals for
reverse osmosis
membranes.
*An international third-party certification
organization for protecting and
improving global human health.
Relocated head office to Nakano-ku, Tokyo.
2013
Launch of S.sensing, a water treatment management service, optimizing water treatment in real-time with sensing technology.
Established With Kurita Ltd.
2014
Development of boiler water treatment chemicals for scale dispersion and removal effects.
2015
Acquired the water treatment chemicals business from a European company, established as a group company (predecessor of Kurita Europe GmbH).
2016
Merged group companies in Europe as Kurita Europe GmbH.
2017
Start-up of selling wastewater treatment system, using Anammox microorganisms, for a large flow rate and low nitrogen concentration.
Established Kurita R&D Asia Pte. Ltd.
Acquired the American water treatment company Fremont Industries, LLC (predecessor of Kurita America, Inc.) as a group company.
Acquired the Korean water treatment company Hansu Co., Ltd. as a group company.
2018
Start-up of operating a vertical dry methane fermentation facility for energy reclamation and creation from waste.
Acquired Fracta Inc. as a group company.
2019
Assembled a water reclamation technology demonstration system for the International Space Station’s Japanese Experiment Module (KIBO).
Acquired the American water treatment company U.S. Water Services, Inc. as a group company.
Acquired the American and British water treatment companies Avista Technologies, Inc. and Avista Technologies (UK) Ltd. (predecessors of Kurita UK Ltd.) as a group company.
2020s
Developing new solutions to resolve a wide range of issues
2020
Merged group companies in America as Kurita America, Inc.
Acquired the American tool cleaning company Pentagon Technologies Group, Inc. as a group company.
2021
Development of AIoptimized operation of water treatment solutions for reverse osmosis membranes equipment.
Merged Kurita Water Industries Ltd. and Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.
Acquired the Middle Eastern water treatment chemicals company Kurita AquaChemie FZE and Kurita AquaChemie Saudi Arabia Co. as a group company.
Acquired the Canadian water treatment chemical company Keytech Water Management as a group company.
Established Kurita Europe Technology Center.
2022
Established Kurita Innovation Hub.
2023
Developed a used diaper separation and treatment system.
