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Corporate history

1889

A.R.Brown, McFarlane&Co., Ltd. Established in Glasgow, UK.

1949

A.R.Brown, McFarlane&Co., Ltd. Opened Tokyo branch.

1950

Exclusive representativeship in Japan of Dow Corning,silicone Resin granted.

1957

Exclusive representativeship in Japan of UK Atomic Energy Authority, Radio Chemical Center (Radioisotope) granted.

1959

Commenced import of Electorodynamic & hydraulicdynamic vibration test machine.

1966

Participated in Environment Test Machine business as a representative of AVCO, USA.

1969

Exclusive representativeship of Chase Corp., USA granted.

1970

Bokusui Brown Co., Ltd, established.

1973

Participated in Laboratory-ware and Biotechnology field as exclusive representativeship of Wheaton Industry, USA.

1979

Tokyo head office moved to present location.

1982

Participated in Specialty & Fine Chemical field as representativeship of Arizona Chemical, USA, Koch Chemical USA, The Shepherd Chemical USA.

1985

Opened a liaison office in New York.

1988

Opened Nagoya Sales office.

1989

Capital increased to 50 million yen.
Osaka sales office moved to present location and become Osaka branch.
Celebration ceremony of 40th anniversary.
Exclusive representativeship in Japan of Lansmont Corp. USA and IST Inc. USA granted.

1990

BBK-Gurney established in Brighton, UK. UK liaison office opened.

1992

Technical Center established.

1995

Company renamed AR BROWN Co., Ltd.

1997

Capitalized in HOJYO PTE LTD. Singapore.

2000

Celebration ceremony of 50th anniversary.

2001

Started dealing in the digital video monitoring system to enter into security field business.

2006

KES・Environment Management System Standard Step2 approval.

2008

Nagoya sales office become Nagoya branch.

2010

Celebration ceremony of 60th anniversary.
Osaka sales office moved to present location.
Nagoya sales office moved to present location.

2011

AR BROWN (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in China.

2014

AR BROWN(THAILAND)Co.,Ltd. was established in Bangkok.

2017

Head office moved to present location.

2018

ARBROWN India Trading Private Limited was established in India.

2019

AR BROWN KOREA Co., Ltd. was established in Seoul.

2020

Capital increased to 70 million yen.

2022

FB Automation Co.,Ltd. became a group company of AR Brown Co.,Ltd.

2024

Misho Co.,Ltd. became a group company of AR Brown Co., Ltd.

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