Daicel

Daicel Corporation
株式会社ダイセル
Public KK
Traded as TYO: 4202
Industry Chemical
Founded (September 8, 1919 (1919-09-08))
Headquarters Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0011 (Osaka head office)
Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8230 (Tokyo head office), Japan
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Misao Fudaba
(President and CEO)
Products
Revenue

Increase JPY 443.7 billion (FY 2014)

(US$ 3.69 billion) (FY 2014)
Profit

Increase JPY 31.2 billion (FY 2014)

(US$ 260 million) (FY 2014)
Number of employees
 10,173 (as of March 31, 2015)
Website Official website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Daicel Corporation (株式会社ダイセル Kabushiki gaisha Daiseru) is a chemical company based in Japan. It operates business in celluloid technologies, organic chemicals, high-performance chemicals, polymers and pyrotechnic devices. The company's products include cellulose acetate, tow for cigarette filters, high-performance chemicals, engineering plastics like liquid crystal polymers (LPCs), resin compounds, and automotive airbag inflators.[3]

The company formed under the name of Dainippon Celluloid Company from a 1919 merger of eight regional celluloid manufacturers and changed its name to the present one in 1966.[4] Its first subsidiary, Fuji Photo Film, was set up in 1934 to produce nitrocellulose film.[5] Eventually this company became Fujifilm.

References

  1. ↑ "Corporate Data". Daicel Corporation. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Company Profile". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Company Profile". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Saito, Mari (November 5, 2014). "Recalls, uncertainty to push air bag maker Takata to wider loss". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ Fred Aftalion (January 1, 1991). A History of the International Chemical Industry. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 206, 317. ISBN 0-8122-8207-8.

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