Harima Chemicals Group Inc (Harima) manufactures and sells a wide range of resins, tall oil products, paper-producing chemicals, and electronic materials.

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Harima aims to focus on creating new product value that contributes to building the future and transforming research results and technologies into marketable products. The company fosters a research environment that encourages originality through talent development and corporate vitalization, with educational training opportunities, international exchanges, and overseas dispatch programs. Harima promotes cross-industry and industry-academia-government interaction to develop talent for the next generation of technologies. The company strives to develop new materials and technologies around core technologies, including pine chemical technologies, resin synthesis, emulsification and dispersion technologies, and metal-joining technologies. Harima actively incorporates leading-edge technology into the development of new, eco-friendly products with energy and resource-saving properties. The company has launched a specialized team to integrate material informatics to boost productivity and speed in R&D. The R&D units of Harima include the Central Research Laboratory in Japan, which focuses on R&D of paint resins, paper chemicals, and electronic materials, and the Tsukuba Research Laboratory in Japan, which focuses on R&D of ink resins, adhesive resins, synthetic rubber emulsifiers, various tall oil products, and new-age electronic materials. The R&D units of Harima are in Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and Argentina. These units are responsible for maintaining close cooperation to quickly and accurately grasp the diverse needs of the global market and promote research and development activities that lead to solving customer problems. Harima has research and development bases in Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and Argentina. Harima is working on several new product developments across various fields, including pine chemicals, functional resins, papermaking chemicals, electronic materials, and advanced technology. The company has acquired technology through the acquisition of Henkel's solder business, which is being combined with its own technology for new product development. In FY2025, the company spent JPY2,782 million on R&D, which as a percentage of revenue stood at 2.7%, and grew 2.8% YoY.