Company Profile
Shin-Etsu Chemical provides infrastructure, electronics, and functional materials in Japan. Its operations are structured into Electronic Materials. Its portfolio also includes Living environment basic materials, Functional materials, Processing, trading and technical services segments It offers polyvinyl chloride resin, caustic soda, methanol, chloromethanes, and polyvinyl alcohol, and semiconductor silicon, rare earth magnets, semiconductor encapsulating materials, LED packaging materials, photoresists, photomask blanks, and synthetic quartz products.
It also sells silicones, cellulose derivatives, silicon metal, synthetic pheromones, vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer, liquid fluoroelastomers, pellicles, and silicon anode material for lithium-ion batteries.
Additionally, it is involved in the processed plastics. Its portfolio also includes export of technologies and plants, export and import of products, and engineering activities. Incorporated in 1926 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Shin-Etsu Chemical was formerly known as Shin-Etsu Nitrogen Fertilizer Co., Ltd. before rebranding in 1940.