Eight major Japanese chemical companies have released their financial results for the April–June quarter of 2018. While all saw increases in revenue, only three saw a rise in operating profit....
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Sekisui Chemical Ramps up Efforts in Electrical and Electronic Materials
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) is boosting its electronics business through its High-Performance Plastics (HPP) Company. For fiscal 2017, the HPP Company posted record-high profits for the fifth year in...
UMI Invests in Film Deposition Equipment Manufacturer AMTI
Universal Materials Incubator Co. Ltd. (UMI), a public–private fund with members including major Japanese chemical firms, recently announced that it invested last month in Advanced Materials Technology Inc. (AMTI), a...
Sekisui Chemical Makes Push With Automotive Materials
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) is looking to expand its lineup of recently developed products in the area of automotive materials. The company aims to make 120 billion yen ($1.09...
Chemical Giants Achieve Record Profits for Fiscal 2017
Japan’s chemical industry has now seen all of its major players release their business results for fiscal 2017. And with petrochemical market prices at a high and price spreads growing,...
Sekisui Chemical Plans Sixfold Production Increase for Film-Type LiBs
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) announced on April 23 that it will increase its production capacity of film-type lithium-ion secondary batteries (LiBs) for residential use. With the Japanese government’s feed-in...
Sekisui Chemical Plans Chinese Research Base for Interlayer Films
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) is planning to establish a research center in Shanghai, China, in the near future to work with interlayer films for laminated automotive glass. The center...
Sekisui Chemical Looks to Grow Business for Biorefineries
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) is aiming to grow its business for biorefineries, which use biotechnology to produce chemical products. As part of this initiative, the chemical giant will utilize...
Interview: Sekisui Chemical President Teiji Koge Talks Company Strategy, Outlook
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) has been active over the last year in its efforts to prepare for a shifting economical and demographical landscape. President Teiji Koge recently sat down...
Sekisui Chemical Plans Boost to European Production of Interlayer Film
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) announced on Jan. 25 that it will expand its production of automotive interlayer film in the Netherlands. This includes plans to install a new production...
Sekisui Chemical Plans Major Investment Into Film-Type LiB Production
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) has revealed plans to invest billions of yen (1 billion yen = $8.87 million) over the next several years into the mass production of film-type...
Sekisui Chemical Turns Garbage Into Ethanol
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) recently announced that it has established technology for highly efficient ethanol production from municipal solid waste. The process sees waste converted to gas and then...
Japan’s Major Chemical Manufacturers Post Record Profits in First-Half Results
All of Japan’s major chemical manufacturers have posted record highs on a net profit basis with their respective midterm settlement of accounts for September 2017. And with each of these...
Sekisui Chemical to Mass-Produce Wedge-Shaped Interlayer Film for HUDs in Netherlands
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) plans to mass-produce a wedge-shaped interlayer film for a head-up display (HUD) in automobile windshields to display texts, diagrams and other visual cues. The company...
Japan’s Best Path Forward to Survive the Global Chemical Industry’s Changing Tides – Part 8
The birth of DowDuPont Inc. raises questions as to what developments we can expect to see now in what is something of a final frontier in terms of company realignments...
Sekisui Chemical to Boost Cross-Linked High-Expansion Polyolefin Foam Production
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) plans to increase its global production of cross-linked high-expansion polyolefin foam, which offers outstanding flexibility and insulation performance. The firm intends to expand production capacity...
China Seeks to Become Powerhouse for Smart Cars – Part 2
China is in hot pursuit of next-generation car development, with not only automakers rushing to develop the next generation of smart cars but the information and communications technology (ICT) sector...
Sekisui Chemical to Invest 20B Yen in Automotive Glass Interlayers and Raw Material
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO: 4204) will invest 20 billion yen ($182 million) to expand production of automotive glass interlayers and their raw material, polyvinyl butyral (PVB). Sekisui Chemical is...
Major Chemical Companies Achieve Soaring Profits on Back of Favorable Petrochemical Market – Part 1
Major Japanese chemical companies have released their financial results for the fiscal year ending March 2017, with each reporting an increase in net profit. Tosoh Corp. (TYO:4042) and Mitsui Chemicals...
Sekisui Chemical to Acquire Polymatech Japan
Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4204) announced plans on April 25 for an acquisition of Polymatech Japan Co. Ltd., a Saitama-based supplier of heat dissipation materials that incorporate silicone, by August...
