Company History
 C・・・Company related
 A・・・Award-related
 P・・・Product-related 


1956 C Established

1958 P Starts production of contact lenses (first in Japan).

1964 P Starts production of coated lenses (first in Japan).

1965 P Starts production of color-coated lenses.

1970 C Establishes plastic division. Tokai Seimitsu Industrial Co., Ltd. is incorporated.

1973 P Develops glass lens multi-coating technology.

1979 P Starts production of CR-39 multi-coated lenses (first in Japan).

1988 P Starts production of AR coated lenses.

1993 P Starts production of cast-molding lenses.
         P Starts production of polarized beam splitters.

1995 P Starts production of 1.60 lenses.

1997 P Starts production of 1.67 lenses.

1998 C Incorporates TSL Co., Ltd. as a sales company.

2000 C Obtains ISO9001.
         P Starts the sale of 1.74 lenses (first in the world).

2001 P Starts the sale of 1.67 progressive lenses with original design.

2002 P Starts production of super hydrophobic lenses.

2004 P Starts production of ITO film.

2005 A Receives the Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute Director Award.

2006 A Approved as an Aichi Quality Company

2007 P Develops optical resin with antireflection by micromachining (moth eye) (first in the world).
         C Obtains ISO14001.

2008 A Selected as "300 of Japan Dynamic Monozukuri SMEs"by METI.
         P Starts the sale of 1.74 both-sided aspherical lenses.

2009 P Starts the sale of heat resistant lenses.
         P Starts the sale of 1.67 polarized lenses.

2010 P Starts the sale of 1.55 photochromic/polarized lenses.
         P Starts the sale of 1.60 polarized lenses.

2011 P Starts the sale of 1.74 polarized lenses (first in the world).

2012 P Starts the sale of functional lenses for blue light cut.

2013 P Starts the sale of functional anti-fog lenses.

2014 P Starts the sale of lenses blocking UV by over 99% at 400nm.