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Business Description
Daicel Corp (Daicel) is a chemical company with expertise in celluloid manufacturing technologies. The company’s product portfolio includes spherical cellulose acetate particles, ceramide, excipients for foods, analytical/purification/synthesis/formulation services, separation membrane modules, ultra-low-density foam products, polyplastics, polyplastics-evonik, acetic acid and derivatives, cycloaliphatic epoxies and ketene derivatives, among others. It caters to the requirements of various industries including transportation, electronics, medical care, personal care, and environment and energy, among others.
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R&D Overview
Daicel has undertaken several R&D initiatives across various business segments. In the Medical and Healthcare Business, the company is developing unique materials and technologies in the healthcare field, including the development of BELLOCEA, spherical cellulose acetate particles made from natural raw materials. In the Smart Business, the company is conducting R&D targeting the display and opto fields and the IC/semiconductor field. In the Safety Business, the company is developing technology that generates energy instantly, safely, and reliably. In the Materials Business, the company is working to improve the quality and productivity of cellulose derivatives. In the Engineering Plastics Business, the company is promoting further sophistication of its value-providing business, targeting markets where future growth in engineering plastics is expected. In the Other Businesses, the company is developing separation membranes and membrane equipment systems. The R&D units of Daicel include the Research Center, Business Creation Headquarters, Production Headquarters Production Technology Center, Biomass Innovation Center, and Inorganic Composite Packaging Research Institute. These units are responsible for managing the company's R&D activities, including industry-academia collaboration, business creation, process and technology development, biomass innovation, and the development of new materials for a smart society. In FY2025, the company spent JPY25,931 million, which as a percentage of revenue stood at 4%, and grew 10.9% YoY.
Business Segments
Overview
The segment provides high-performance plastics with excellent mechanical strength, heat resistance, chemical resistance and other properties useful in various facets of modern life from automobiles, household appliances and electronic devices, to aircraft and packaging of food and medical products. The substitution of engineering plastics for metal parts contributes to weight reduction and miniaturization of products, improved safety, and reduced manufacturing costs. Major products include COC, PBT, POM, PPS, LCP, coating films, packaging containers and water-soluble polymer.
Performance
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Overview
Provides solutions in response to global scale needs with technology cultivated via material business. Business units include Acetyl BU and Chemical BU. The main products of Acetyl BU are acetic acid and derivatives, cellulose acetate, and acetate tow. The Chemical BU’s main products are cycloaliphatic epoxies, caprolactone, ketene derivatives, and alkylamines. Major products include Cellulose acetate, Acetate tow, Acetic acid, Acetic acid derivatives, Alicyclic-epoxy-resin and Caprolactone derivatives.
Performance
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Overview
It is engaged in research for the prevention of dementia, develops materials and introduces services that target the improvement of intestinal flora, specializes in the production and sale of premium raw materials for the cosmetics industry. Offers solutions related to pharmaceutical development, including the creation of columns (specifically chiral columns) that effectively separate the necessary components of drugs, as well as the development of a novel drug delivery device. It consists of two business units Cosmetic ingredients and Functional food material. Cosmetic ingredients offer moisturizer, surfactant, texture improver, thickner and binder of fibers and powders. Functional food material offers urolithin A, konjac ceramide, enzyme-treated mandarin orange powder, flavocell and lactobionic acid, among others. Major products include equol, polyglycerin, Konjac ceramide, High-purity chiral reagents and orally disintegrating tablets. In FY2023, the segment’s capital expenditure stood at JPY2,693 million, which increased 133.2% YoY.
Performance
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Overview
Provides membrane separation system products, defence-related products, transportation warehousing and advanced water treatment systems and household products.
Performance
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Overview
It offers safety and security solutions through expertise cultivated in the vehicle safety field. It provides pyro-fuses and automobile airbags inflators (gas generation devices) as safety systems for use in products such as electric vehicles, transmission systems, renewable energy storage and robots. Major products include micro gas generators, pyro-fuses and airbag inflators for automobiles.
Performance
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Overview
It offers various solutions for the electronics market such as functional films and materials used in PCs, smartphones, TVs and in-vehicle displays; solvents and polymers used in the semiconductor manufacturing process and lenses used in smartphones, VR and various sensors. Major products include solvents for electronic materials, optical lens, organic semiconductor devices, printed electronics materials, Photoresist materials, tri-acetate cellulose(TAC) for optical films and high-performance optical films.
Performance
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Geographical Segments
Target Markets
China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea
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Target Markets
Germany, Poland, France, the US and Mexico
Performance
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