Meiji Seika Pharma Co. Ltd. is gearing up to strengthen its production capacity for injection-administered antibacterial drugs. Holding the top share of Japan’s antibacterial market, and continuing to operate at...
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Kuraray Targets Significant Growth in Sales of Dental Materials by 2020
Kuraray Co. Ltd. (TYO:3405) is targeting roughly 30 percent growth in its dental materials business by 2020, planning to achieve this goal through subsidiary Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc. With dental...
Drug Price Revisions Drive Divide in Q1 Health Care Results for Chemical, Material Firms
Revisions made to Japan’s national drug pricing in April have driven a wedge between the health care business results of chemical and material producers for April–June. Four out of nine...
University of Tsukuba Discovers New Method to Regenerate Heart Muscle With Gene Injection
A research group led by Professor Masaki Ieda of the University of Tsukuba has discovered that the TBX6 gene can directly regenerate cardiovascular tissue when injected into cardiac fibroblasts. Previous...
Mitsui Chemicals Plans European Clinical Research for Sepsis Testing Technology
Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (TYO:4183) is looking to expand R&D efforts overseas with its new testing technology for sepsis, a severe infectious disease. This comes as part of a plan to...
Takagi Seiko Targets Growth With Production of Needle-Free Injector Parts
Takagi Seiko Corp. (TYO:4242) is aiming to leverage its precision molding technologies to expand its business in the medical device field. These efforts have already seen the Toyama Prefecture-based company...
Yokogawa Accelerates Technological Developments in Life Innovation Business
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (TYO:6841) is moving to accelerate its development of technologies geared toward business expansion in the pharmaceutical, food and health care sectors. The Japanese electrical engineering company has...
Mitsubishi Chemical Goes on Front Foot in Medical Materials
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. is embarking on a charge in medical materials. In the area of medical compounds, Mitsubishi Chemical has developed a novel cyclic block copoylmer (CBC). Given that cyclo-olefin...
Toray Develops Blood-Purifying Fiber Adsorbent With Application in Preventing Respiratory Failure
Toray Industries Inc. (TYO:3402) has developed a fiber adsorbent for purifying blood, able to selectively eliminate activated leukocyte cells and cytokine proteins that lead to respiratory failure. It is a...
Kaneka Eyes Major M&A Deals in Health Care Sector
Kaneka Corp. (TYO:4118) is considering M&A deals in the health care sector, with one worth as much as 20 billion yen ($181.9 million). Under the company’s medium-term business plan, Kaneka...
Teijin Works to Expand Orthopedic Implant Business
Teijin Ltd. (TYO:3401) is expanding its business operations both domestically and overseas for orthopedic medical devices, with this including artificial joints and other medical implants. To this end, the company...
Chemical and Material Manufacturers Eye Sustainable Growth in Health Care Sector
Chemical and material manufacturers are focusing their efforts in on the health care sector, seeing here little risk of fluctuation effects and as such expecting sustainable growth over the medium–long...
Fujifilm Takes Steps to Bolster Medical Device Business in Middle East, North Africa
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (TYO:4901) is taking steps to bolster the development of its medical device business in the Middle East and North Africa. In addition to delivering 230 portable medical...
Solvay Targets Japan’s Health Care Sector With Super Engineering Plastics
Belgian-based Solvay SA, which controls a number of subsidiaries in Japan, is looking to claim new space in the Japanese health care sector using a range of super engineering plastics....
METI: Japanese Health Care Market to Reach Scale of 33 Trillion Yen by 2025
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) recently made its first forecast for the size of Japan’s domestic health care industry in 2025. Having analyzed the industry by looking...
Interview: Denka CEO Manabu Yamamoto Talks Business Angles Coming for New Management Plan
Denka Co. Ltd. (TYO:4061) could be said to have a favorable hand given how economic trends are aligning with the company’s areas of business. CEO and President Manabu Yamamoto recently...
DSM Eyes Global Expansion for Personalized Nutrition Business
Royal DSM is embarking on the global expansion of its personalized nutrition business, which tailors advice on nutrition and health management to each individual. The company has recently partnered with...
Interview: Teijin CEO Jun Suzuki Talks Developments Under New Medium-Term Management Plan
Teijin Ltd. (TYO:3401) is rounding out the first year of its medium-term management plan for fiscal 2017–2019, titled “Always Evolving.” CEO and President Jun Suzuki recently took some time out...
Philips to Build IoT-Based Health Care Network in Japan
Royal Philips NV will begin putting efforts into the construction of a health care network that utilizes IoT. A new business here will be led by Philips Japan Ltd., the...
Cabinet Office Settles on Outline for New Bio-Innovation Strategy
The Japanese Cabinet Office’s Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) recently put together an overview for its strategy in bio-innovation. The council hopes to bring the baseline of Japan’s...
