1905 H.R. Williams Mill Supply, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, is founded by Harry Richards Williams.

1909 American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) Champaign, Illinois, is established.

1911 Herman Meyer, of Seattle, Washington was documented as operating the first U.S. soybean crushing facility to obtain oil and meal. The soybeans were imported from Manchuria by the Albers Brothers Milling Co. and sold to Mr. Meyer who operated his small hydraulic press, later named Pacific Oil Mills.

1914 Universal Oil Products Co. (UOP), Des Plaines, Illinois is established.

1915 Elizabeth City Oil and Fertilizer Co., Elizabeth City North Carolina, became the second U.S. crusher and the first to crush American-grown soybeans. At that time, North Carolina was USA's leading soybean producing state.

1917 Takai Tofu & Soymilk Equipment Co., Ishikawa-ken, Japan is established. It was in 1957 when Takai developed their automatic tofu production system.

1919 Chicago Heights Oil Manufacturing Co., Chicago Heights, Illinois became the first company to crush soybeans grown in the corn belt for oil and meal.

1921 Riceland Foods, Little Rock, Arkansas, is founded.

1921 Tirtiaux, Fleurus, Belgium, establishes the first margarine factory in Belgium. In 1973 S.A. Fractionnement Tirtiaux is founded for the manufacture and commercialization of the fractionation system.

1922 A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Decatur, Illinois builds the first U.S. plant constructed solely for crushing soybeans.

1923 Piatt County Cooperative Soy Bean Company, Monticello, Illinois became the first U.S. solvent extraction soybean processor, using benzol as a solvent.

1924 Eastern Cotton Oil Co., Norfolk, Virginia, becomes the first continuous solvent extraction soybean plant in the U.S. using a Bollman extractor imported from Germany.

1925 Prater Pulverizer Company, Cicero, Illinois, is established by Ralph Prater. Now known as Prater industries, Inc., they have remained family owned with 3rd generation R. Scott Prater now serving as President.

1926 Clofine Dairy & Food Products Inc., Linwood, New Jersey, is founded by Charles Clofine. It was 1985 when grandson and current president Larry Clofine was helping a customer develop a kosher alternative with a longer shelf life, that he first formulated their spray dried tofu.

1929 The National Soybean Growers' Association becomes the American Soybean Association.

1934 Archer Daniels Midland Company, Chicago, Illinois, successfully started America's first 150-ton-per-day continuous hexane solvent extractor for soybeans. Eight months later, The Glidden Co. of Chicago, purchased an identical solvent extraction plant. But Central Soya, Decatur, Indiana, surpassed both companies in 1937 by purchasing a 275-ton-per-day capacity solvent extractor.

1936 The Chicago Board of Trade, establishes a soybean futures market.

1936 U.S. Regional Soybean Industrial Products Lab., Urbana, Illinois, is established as a joint effort of the USDA and the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. It is now know as the National Soybean Research Laboratory.

1936 Behlen Manufacturing Co., Columbus, Nebraska, is established

1940's Prater Pulverizer Company, Cicero, Illinois, develops the "Blue Streak Dual Screen Pulverizer" establishing a new standard for ground soy meal.

1944 Rotex Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, celebrates 100 years in business. Rotex screeners were first introduced in 1921, providing separating and cleaning capacities of up to 20,000 BPH.

1946 Extraction De Smet, Antwerp, Belgium is established. De Smet developed the continuous solvent extractor for edible oilseed extraction which later became adapted to birth modern sugar diffusion, wool scouring and recovering of fats from animal by-products.

1947 The First Issue of the Soybean Bluebook is published by the American Soybean Association.

1949 The Ontario Soybean Growers' Marketing Board, Chatham, Ontario, Canada, is established.

1950 The Chicago Board of Trade adds a soy oil futures market.

1951 N. Hunt Moore & Associates, Memphis, Tennessee, is established.

1952 Divine Engineering, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is founded by Howard Divine.

1953 Vitasoy, markets the first bottled soymilk in Hong Kong.

1953 Maschinenfabrik Reinartz GmbH & Co., KG, Neusis, Germany, celebrates 100 years in business. Originally founded in 1853.

1953 Fa. L.I. Frank, Twello, Netherlands, celebrates their 200th anniversary. Established in 1753 by Fa. Wed. W. Miedendorp, a Colonial goods trader, the company became Fa. L.I. Frank in 1826. It was the 1950s when they began specializing in the production of soy products.

1954 An original patent was awarded to UOP for the food-grade antioxidant Butylated Hydroxyanisole also known as BHA.

1955 Sweet Manufacturing Co., Springfield, Ohio, is founded.

1955 Krupp Extraktionstechnik GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, celebrates 100 years in business. Founded in 1855 by engineer G.J. Koeber as G. Koeber's Elsenhutte, they began in 1870 with the manufacture of palm oil production machinery. Renamed in 1910 to HEB then later to Krupp, the company was to patent and build the first carousel extractor for the continuous extraction of oilseeds in 1953.

1956 The United States Congress passes Public Law # 480 which helped The Soybean Council of America establish international offices.

1957 Takai Tofu & Soymilk Equipment Co. develops the automatic tofu production system.

1957 Association of French Oilseed Producers, Paris, France, (CETIOM) is established.

1958 National Association of Oil Industries & Edible Fats, Mexico City, Mexico is established.

1960 Borton Inc., Contractors & Engineers, Hutchinson, Kansas, is established.

1962 The Japan Oilseed Processors Association, Tokyo, Japan is Established.

1962 The National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, celebrates its 100th anniversary.

1963 Continental Grain, Chicago, Illinois, Celebrates 150 years in business, The successor of a firm started in 1813, the company has grown from a grain trading business to a global agribusiness company.

1967 The Canola Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada is established.

1967 Tirtiaux, Fleurus, Belgium, establishes the first palm oil dry fractionation plant in Colombia.

1968 The first 100 bushel per acre soybean yield is recorded.

1969 Nosawa & Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan celebrates 100 years in business as an international trading company.

1969 Ferrell-Ross, Bluffton, Indiana, celebrates its 100th anniversary.

1969 The American Soybean Association reports for the first time that over half of the United States Soybean crop for the year has been exported.

1973 The International Soybean Program (INTSOY), Urbana, Illinois, is established.

1975 BAR N.A., Inc. Seymour, IL, is founded by Ramlakhan Boodram. Specializing in the manufacture of small oil expellers and related equipment, the company introduced their first low cost dehuller make in the U.S. in 1989.

1977 Zone Devices, Inc. Novato, California, is founded.

1977 Bean Machines, Inc., Mill Valley, California, is founded. The company manufacturers a USDA approved, sanitary stainless steel hammermill grinder.

1977 Riley Equipment, Inc., Vincennes, Indiana, is established as a manufacturer of dry bulk material handling equipment for the processing industry.

1978 Crown Iron Works, Minneapolis, Minnesota, celebrates 100 years in business. The company supplies steel for the first Minneapolis "skyscraper" in 1885, as well as steel girders and iron for WWI ships and bridges in 1912-17. Their first Crown Solvent Extraction 25 ton per day solvent extraction plant is built in 1948.

1978 The American Soybean Association moves its headquarters to St. Louis, Missouri.

1978 SunRich, Inc., Hope, Minnesota, is established.

1978 Alfa Laval Separation AB, Tumba, Sweden celebrates their 100th anniversary. In 1878, Gustaf de Laval secured a patent for a continuous centrifugal separator. He established a trading firm in cooperation with Oscar Lamm, that became AB Separator in 1883. Now Alfa Laval Separation AB, the company is known worldwide for their patented Alfa discs and has become a world leader in separation process technology.

1980 Island Tofu Works is founded by Peter Golbitz and Sharyn Kingma in Bar Harbor, Maine and begins production of tofu, soymilk and soysage.

1981 American Health & Nutrition Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, is established.

1981 Then National Sunflower Association, Bismarck, North Dakota, is founded.

1984 The Soyfoods Association of America, San Francisco, California, is founded.

1985 The Core Team, Hammond, Louisiana, is established.

1985 ProSoya Inc., Ottawa, Canada is founded. Their SoyaCow SC20 is patented in 1990.

1985 Island Tofu Works becomes Soyatech, Inc., an R&D and consulting company.

1987 Soyatech, Inc. begins publication of  Soya Newsletter.

1988 Anderson International Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, celebrates their 100th anniversary, Founded by Valerius Demetrius Anderson, the company boasts two major inventions: The Expeller® Press, the first continuous mechanical method of extracting oils and fats for the vegetable oil and animal fat industries, and the Expander-Extruder-Cooker™, the first mechanical and continuous cooking device, which brought dry dog and cat foods to the U.S. marketplace.

1988 Soytech, Inc., purchases publishing rights to Soya Bluebook from the American Soybean Association, publishes its first edition.

1989 The Government of Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food celebrates 100th anniversary.

1989 Millbank Technology (N.Z.) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, is established. They become the first extruder manufacturer to employ atmospheric steam preconditioning with its range of single high shear extruders, allowing high capacity, quality processing without the need for drying after extrusion.

1990 The Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council is established.

1991 The United Soybean Board, Chesterfield, Missouri, is founded with U.S. Soybean producers national checkoff funds.

1992 The Canadian Oilseed Processors Association, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is established.

1992 The National Biodiesel Board, Jefferson City, Missouri, is established.

1993 Sanders Equipment Company, Elmhurst, Illinois, is established.

1994 Louisville Drying Machinery, Louisville, Kentucky, celebrates 100 years in business. Founded in 1894, the company began in the distillery business as a manufacturer of drying machinery for spent grains.

1994 Soyatech, Inc. begins publication of  Bluebook Update newsletter.

1995 ProSoya Inc. forms the Soyfood Alliance with Canadian dairies. The program later receives sponsorship from the Canadian government.

1995 The Soya Bluebook becomes Soya Bluebook Plus, adding sunflowerseed, canola, rapeseed, palm, palm kernel, cottonseed and corn. The total number of companies represented in the directory reaches 2,300. Soyatech, Inc. adds Soya Bluebook Plus Online, and internet-served version of the Soya Bluebook Plus and Bluebook Update.

1996 Riceland Foods, Little Rock, Arkansas, celebrates its 75th anniversary.

1996 Soyatech, Inc. publishes the 1997 Soya Bluebook in September, 1996, celebrating 50 years of coverage of the world oilseeds industry and continues its expansion by adding peanut and coconut. The total number of companies listed in the directory reaches nearly 3,000.

1997 The Soya Bluebook celebrates its 50th anniversary.