A borosilicate glass vial,
one of our first products.
View of completed
Silicone Technology Center at Isobe Plant.
July 1960
Newly completed lab facilities
at the Silicone-Electronics Materials
Research Center.
April 1991
Production begins at Freeport Plant,
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America.
February 2003
Production begins
at Shin-Etsu Silicones (Thailand).
April 2004
Newly completed lab facilities
at the Silicone-Electronics Materials
Research Center.
February 2016
We experimented with direct sales
of POLON-T beginning in Dec. 1954.
In those days, sandwich boards were
a common form of advertising.
(Shot in city of Takasaki,
Gunma Prefecture)
Shin-Etsu Silicone's product family
Established a complete production system
from raw materials to finished products
by the acquisition of Simcoa Operations,
which is a manufacturer of silicon metal
in Australia.
February 1996
Production begins at Zhejiang
Shin-Etsu High-Tech Chemical in China.
May 2003
Production begins
at Shin-Etsu Silicone (Nantong).
January 2013
Newly completed lab facilities
at the Shin-Etsu Molding Technical Laboratory.
September 2017