History

1964

Chlorella Industry Co., LTD. founded

1964

Completion of the Toyoda factory

1967

Presented in “The 12th annual meeting of the National Defense Medical Society; Changes in body weight and incidence rate of the common cold in the 1966 training squadron by chlorella”*

1971

Completion of the Kyushu factory

1973

Presented in “The 20th conference of The Japanese Society of Nutrition and Dietetics; The impact of chlorella on diabetic patients”*

1977

Completion of the Kyushu factory product center

1977

Completion of the Secondary Kyushu factory

1981

Presented in “The 40th conference of The Japanese Cancer Association; Anti-tumor effect of chlorella and its mechanisms” *

2002

Presented in “The 5th conference of The Japanese Society for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Chlorella promotes the excretion of dioxin”*

2007

Kyushu factory becomes GMP certified by the Japan Health and Nutrition Food Association

2009

Presented in “The Japanese Biochemical Society; Suppressive effect on cognitive memory disorder in Alzheimer’s disease model mice by long-term chlorella administration”

2010

Presented in “The 2010 conference of The Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry; The effect of chlorella extract (BCEx) on the absorption and excretion of methyl mercury”* Registered on third-party certification program for the safety of health foods (chlorella extract, chlorella powder)

2013

Relocation of company head quarters

2014

Obtained HALAL certificate (Japan Halal Association)
50th anniversary

2016

Changed the name of the Kyushu factory to “Kyushu Chikugo factory” to celebrate its 45th anniversary.

2018

Certified as one of 2018 Leading Companies in the Heath and Productivity Management Initiative (Nippon Kenko Kaigi)

Conferences presentations shown in this table are illustrative examples selected from over 680 presentations that we have made in medical, pharmaceutical, and nutritional science related conferences.