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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 conducts research and development to strengthen existing businesses and create new ones, balancing near-term commercial opportunities with longer-term growth themes. A company-wide committee and stage-gate system support centralized management of research themes and focused allocation of resources. Research teams also work with production and engineering functions to move projects from exploration toward commercialization. Initiatives span medical devices and healthcare, safety technologies, smart and electronic materials, engineering plastics, cellulose-based materials, and new materials for power devices and next-generation communications. Daicel also develops analytical methods and an AI technology infrastructure to support research and business creation. The Corporate Division conducts basic research and R&D aimed at creating new businesses, with its R&D expenses allocated across reporting segments. The business units and SBUs conduct R&D in their respective fields. The Medical Business Development Department develops medical devices using energy-control technology. Daicel Mirise develops products addressing societal and customer challenges and an AI infrastructure intended to support R&D and business creation. A company-wide committee and stage-gate system oversee theme selection and resource allocation. The company identifies four R&D-related facilities or centers: the Solution Center, the Inorganic Composite Packaging Laboratory, the Evaluation and Analysis Center, and the Business Accelerator Center. In FY2026, the company spent JPY25,559 million, which as a percentage of revenue stood at 4.4%.
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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