Founded as Abe Industries Co., Ltd. in Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, by ABE Ichiro, former President and Chairman of the Board, mainly copy printing (blueprinting, positive printing, and tracing design drawings)
1950
Established Film Processing Division, mainly microfilm processing
1953
Restructured and renamed company Abe Industrial Photo Co., Ltd.
1955
Established Maruei Printing Co., Ltd. as Offset Printing Division, in Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo (President and CEO ABE Ichiro)
1962
Built new printing plant in Kohoku-ku, Yokohama
1967
Built new building for Head Office in Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku
1968
Merged Abe Industrial Photo Co., Ltd. with Maruei Printing Co., Ltd. and renamed company Abe Photo Printing Co., Ltd.
1970
Established Planning and Designing Division
Established Color Printing Division
1971
Established Abe Publishing Ltd. as Publishing Division
1973
Established Computer Designing Division, mainly electric wiring design of printed circuit boards
Established CTS (computerized typesetting system) Division
1975
Opened Yokohama Operating Center
1976
Established Bookbinding Division
1978
Established Software Development Division
1982
Built new building in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, to unify all typesetting divisions
1983
Built new building for Head Office at present premises
1984
ABE Shuichi appointed as President and CEO
Established Manual Designing Division, mainly technical writing
1988
Opened Hamamatsu Operating Center
Opened Nagoya Operating Center
1989
Established Digital Color Pre-press Division
1991
Built new printing plant in Chonan, Chiba, relocated and unified printing, bookbinding and delivery lines from Yokohama
Opened Osaka Operating Center
Opened Yamanashi Operating Center
1995
Established a subsidiary in Singapore
1997
Established Digital Contents Division
2001
Renamed company Abeism Corporation
Established Abeism Hong Kong Co., Ltd., a subsidiary in Hong Kong
2002
Established Abeism Vietnam Co., Ltd., a subsidiary in Hanoi, Vietnam
2005
Built printing plant in Hanoi, Vietnam
Opened Itabashi Operating Center
2007
Built new building in Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya for Nagoya Operating Center
2014
Established Abeism Hanoi Co., Ltd., a second subsidiary in Hanoi, Vietnam, for Manual Designing Division
2016
Built new building in Tajimi, and opened Chubu Operating Center