Company Profile
Nippon Shokubai provides the manufacture and sale of chemical products in Japan and globally. It operates in two segments: Materials Business and Solutions Business. The Materials Business segment manufactures and sells acrylic acids, acrylates, superabsorbent polymers, ethylene oxides, ethylene glycols, ethanolamine, maleic anhydride, process catalysts, MMA monomers and polymers, and chemicals.
The Solutions Business segment manufactures and sells polymers for concrete admixtures, glycol ether, secondary alcohol ethoxylates, water soluble polymers, intermediates for pharmaceuticals, electronic information materials, iodine compounds, resins for adhesives/paints, ethyleneimine derivatives, processed adhesive products, and automotive catalysts
De-NOx catalysts, dioxins decomposition catalysts, equipment for waste gas treatment, wet air oxidation catalysts, and materials for batteries Acrylic esters, maleimides, cyclic amides, initiators. Its portfolio also includes water-based, solvent based and soluble polymers, inorganic and organic composite fine particles, and liquefied gas and fuel cell materials.
Additionally, it produces and markets industrial materials, civil engineering and construction materials made of synthetic rubber latex or acrylic emulsion as base Acrylic emulsion and fine products. Incorporated in 1941 and headquartered in Osaka, Japan, Nippon Shokubai was formerly known as Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd. before rebranding in 1991.