Asahi Kasei

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Asahi Kasei

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legal form KK
ISIN JP3111200006
founding 1931
Seat Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
JapanJapan 
management Hideki Kobori
Number of employees 34,670
sales 2,042 billion yen
Branch chemistry
Website www.asahi-kasei.co.jp
As of March 31, 2018

Asahi Kasei KK ( Japanese 旭 化成 株式会社 , Asahi Kasei Kabushiki kaisha , English Asahi Kasei Corporation ), listed in the Nikkei 225 , is a Japanese chemical company. The company employs around 35,000 people who generated sales of 16 billion euros in the 2018 financial year. Asahi Kasei manufactures basic chemicals, plastics and synthetic fibers, pharmaceuticals, building materials, prefabricated houses, styrene-butadiene rubber and microporous films for lithium batteries, but also electronic components such as D / A converters since 1980 .

The forerunner of Asahi Kasei ( Nobeoka Ammonia Fiber ) was the first Japanese company to manufacture ammonia in 1922, which was used to manufacture Bemberg silk . In 1931 Asahi Kasei was founded from this. In 1957 the production of polystyrene and in 1959 of synthetic fibers began. In 1967, Asahi Kasei opened up with the production of lever - aerated concrete a new business. In 1992 the pharmaceutical company Toyo Jozo was taken over. In April 2020, Asahi Kasei started producing green hydrogen in Japan.

The company is headquartered in Tokyo with offices in Osaka , the People's Republic of China , the United States and Germany . Akira Yoshino , who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 for his work on lithium-ion batteries, is head of the laboratory in Japan .

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The subsidiary ZOLL Medical Corporation (named after the inventor of the pacemaker Paul Maurice Zoll ) manufactures medical devices for defibrillation , cardiopulmonary resuscitation and ventilation .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annual Report 2018 .
  2. ↑ akm.com/jp/en/products/audio, Audio D / A Converters, accessed on June 9, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Homes | Products | Asahi Kasei. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ History of Growth | About Asahi Kasei | Asahi Kasei. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ automobil-produktion.de of April 21, 2020, alkali water electrolysis plant - Asahi Kasei starts producing green hydrogen , accessed on June 9, 2020.
  6. ↑ automobil Konstruktions.industrie.de/KEM Konstruktions from October 9, 2019, interview with Nobel Prize winner Akira Yoshino from Asahi Kasei about e-mobility , accessed on June 9, 2020.
  7. ^ Company Overview - Asahi Kasei - ZOLL Medical. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .

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