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Tokuyama Corporation

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Native name
  
株式会社トクヤマ

Industry
  
Chemicals

Headquarters
  
Japan

Type
  
Public KK

Founder
  
Katsujiro Iwai

Founded
  
16 February 1918

Tokuyama Corporation httpswwwtokuyamacojpengmalaysiapjimgimg

Traded as
  
TYO: 4043 Nikkei 225 Component

Key people
  
Kazuhisa Kogo (President)

Stock price
  
4043 (TYO) JP¥ 538 -20.00 (-3.58%)31 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer

Subsidiaries
  
Shanghai Tokuyama Plastics Co., Ltd.

Tokuyama Corporation (株式会社トクヤマ, Kabushiki-gaisha Tokuyama) is a Japanese, Tokyo-based chemical company and the worlds fourth largest silicon manufacturer.

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The company was founded as Nihon Soda Kogyo Co., Ltd., a producer of soda ash in 1918 by Katsujiro Iwai. It changed name in 1936 to Tokuyama Soda Co., Ltd. and in 1994 to its present name. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a component of the Nikkei 225 stock index.

The company operates across Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, United States, and Germany.

Chemicals business

  • Soda ash and calcium chloride
  • Chlor-alkali and vinyl chloride products: caustic soda (liquid, flake), propylene oxide, vinyl chloride monomer
  • New organic chemicals: isopropyl alcohol

    • Cement business

  • Portland cement: ordinary, early-strength, medium-heat
  • Recycling services
  • Fresco Giclee

    • Specialty products business

  • Electronic materials: polycrystalline silicon
  • Fumed silica
  • SHAPAL products: aluminum nitride (powder, granules)
  • IC chemicals and the cleaning system: high purity chemicals for electronics manufacturing, positive-type photoresist

    • Life & amenity business

  • Fine Chemicals: photochromic dye materials, hard coating solutions for plastic lenses, pharmaceutical bulk ingedients, amino radical protectants
  • Microporous film: polyethylene porous film
  • Dental materials

    • Source

    References

    Tokuyama Corporation Wikipedia
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