The founder of GSI Creos Daisaku Hayashi utilized his vast experience in the raw silk trade and far-reaching connections in the United States to begin purchasing raw silk as the Japanese agent for the US silk importer Van Straaten and Havey, Inc. He succeeded in supplying Van Straaten and Havey with large volumes of raw silk sourced from leading silk suppliers from across Japan. “D. Hayashi Shoten” was inaugurated in 1931 and an office was opened in New York in the United States in 1933, and this marked the start of GSI Creos as a company.

In 2001, we changed our company name to the current name “GSI Creos Corporation.”
This name was created by combining the acronym for “global sophisticated intelligence” with “Creos,” which is a synthesis of the three words “create,” “reorient,” and “Eos,” the Greek goddess of dawn. This expresses that just as the goddess of dawn brings light at daybreak, our global, sophisticated professional human resources create new products and businesses, and covert dreams into reality. 
Furthermore, during the same year, we entered the nanotechnology business. We had discovered special carbon nanotubes through technologies that were being used for the products of our Industrial Products Division, and began the application and development of these. 
Also, in addition to our existing local subsidiaries in “New York, the United States” and “Shanghai, China,” we established ones in “Shenzhen, China,” “Seoul, South Korea,” “Jakarta, Indonesia,” and “Bangkok, Thailand.” This expanded our activities worldwide, and has been further accelerating our global development.