Company Profile
Adeka provides chemicals, food products, and life science businesses. The company offers polymer additives, such as antioxidants, UV absorbers/hindered amine light stabilizers, nucleating agents/clarifiers, metal deactivators/additives for filled polymers, flame retardants, epoxy type stabilizers/lubricants/processability improvers/water dispersion type stabilizers.
Its portfolio also includes plasticizers/PVC stabilizers, and photo/thermal curing materials, initiators, polymerizable materials, resist materials, thermal paper materials, semiconductor materials, and circuit materials. Its chemical products also include water borne, epoxy, low chlorine epoxy, and urethane resins.
Its portfolio also includes surface specialties, such as general-purpose and functional surfactants, functional cosmetic ingredients, lubricant additives, and base materials for lubricants, propylene glycol, peroxygen chemicals, metal soaps, and inorganic chemicals, and inducing sealing materials
Civil engineering and construction materials. The company provides its chemical products to electronics and IT, plastics and rubber, personal care, industrial, liquid crystal display, automotive, and building and construction industries
Paints, coatings, and adhesives industries, as well as food products, such as margarines, shortening products, oils and fats for chocolate, frying oil, whipped cream, mayonnaise, and others.
It also engages in the design, construction and construction management of equipment plants, equipment maintenance, logistics, warehousing, vehicle leasing, real estate, insurance agency, etc. Incorporated in 1917 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Adeka was formerly known as Asahi Denka Co., Ltd. before rebranding in May 2006.