Kureha
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | 1944 |
| Seat |
Chūō , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
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| management | Yutaka Kobayashi |
| Number of employees | 4,080 |
| sales | 148.1 billion yen (€ 1.17 billion) |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.kureha.co.jp |
| Stand 2013 | |
KK Kureha ( Japanese 株式会社 ク レ ハ , Kabushiki kaisha Kureha , English Kureha Corporation ) is a Japanese chemical company, which began in 1944 as a chlor-alkali electrolyzer Kureha Kagaku Kōgyō KK ( 呉 羽 化学 工業 株式会社 , "chemical production Kureha"). Shortly thereafter, the production of polyvinylidene chloride (PVdC) began. In the late 1960s were carbon fibers and 1972. beaded activated carbon ( english bead-shaped active carbon ) is added. In 1977 the cancer drug Polysaccharide-K (Krestin) was brought onto the market. The company was given its current name in 2005.
Products
The company polymers such as polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and Polyglycolide (PGA) as the crude product as well as plastic packaging, such as Krehalon - shrink film (common in fresh meat) and artificial casings made of polyvinylidene chloride (PVdC) ago. Kureha also produces plant protection products: Flupoxam and, together with American Cyanamid, metconazole .
In addition to the manufacture of chemical products, Kureha is also active in plant construction, for example chlor-alkali electrolysis cells etc. as well as the manufacture of carbon fibers and electrodes. Kureha has a 50.1% stake in the KBMJ joint venture , which manufactures electrodes for lithium-ion batteries ( Carbotron ).
Locations
Kureha currently has plants in Iwaki , Omitama ( Ibaraki Prefecture ) and Tamba ( Hyōgo Prefecture ).
literature
- Kazuma Gotoh, Mariko Maeda, Aisaku Nagai, Atsushi Goto, Masataka Tansho, Kenjiro Hashi, Tadashi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ishida: Properties of a novel hard-carbon optimized to large size Li ion secondary battery studied by 7Li NMR . In: Journal of Power Sources . tape 162 , no. 2 , November 2006, p. 1322-1328 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jpowsour.2006.09.001 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Results for the Year ended March 31, 2014
- ↑ BAC - Bead-shaped Activated Carbon
- ^ History
- ↑ Product History
- ↑ Business Report 2013
- ↑ KBMJ: Anode material for LIB: CARBOTRON
- ↑ CARBOTRON P ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
