Tosoh Looks to Capture Environmental Demand for Ethyleneamines and Other Products
Tosoh Corp. (TYO:4042) will focus its efforts on capturing environment-related demand in its ethyleneamine and amine compounds business. The company…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma to Expand Regenerative and Cellular Medicine CDMO Operations
Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co. Ltd. (TYO:4506) and Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4005) plan to expand their CDMO facilities for regenerative…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
SCEJ Works in Community Partnership to Restructure Shunan Complex
In the bid to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the City of Shunan in Yamaguchi, Japan, has launched the Shunan…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Targets Optical Resins Toward Use in VR, Automotive Applications
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co. Inc. (MGC; TYO:4182) is looking to have its optical resins business work on market development for…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
Ethylene Production Falls 10.3% for June, Down 7% for First Half of 2016
Ethylene production for June 2016 suffered a year-on-year drop of 10.3 percent, to 446,200 tons, according to production records of…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
Japan Polypropylene to Shut Down Slurry PP Facility at Goi Plant
Japan Polypropylene Corp. has announced that it will shut down one of the polypropylene (PP) facilities at its Goi plant…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
Teijin looks to Enter Market for Automotive Lithium-Ion Battery Separators
Teijin Ltd. (TYO:3401) plans to roll out separators for automotive lithium-ion secondary batteries (LiBs). The new separators will most likely…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
Mitsubishi Chemical Boosts Korean Production of MAA for Concrete Admixture
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. is set to increase its production of methacrylic acid (MAA) in South Korea, raising its annual Korean…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
Tokuyama Targets Sales of 50B Yen in Health Care Field
Tokuyama Corp. (TYO:4043) is looking to grow its health care business, which consists of dental materials, active pharmaceutical ingredients, diagnostic…… Please subscribe to read the full story.
Toray Executive VP Koichi Abe Talks R&D Processes, New Technologies
The Chemical Daily recently conducted a round of interviews with the heads of R&D divisions of major Japanese chemical companies. For this installment, we talked with Koichi Abe, executive VP, representative member of the board and chief technology officer of…
