Nippon Soda
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3726200003 |
| founding | 1920 |
| Seat |
Chiyoda , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
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| Number of employees | 2,664 |
| sales | 142.7 billion yen (€ 1.13 billion) |
| Branch | Chemical industry |
| Website | www.nippon-soda.co.jp |
| As of March 31, 2016 | |
Nippon Sōda ( Japanese 日本 曹 達 株式会社 , Nippon Sōda kabushiki kaisha , English Nippon Soda Co. Ltd. , short: Nissō ( 日 曹 )) is a Japanese chemical company .
The company began producing sodium hydroxide using chlor-alkali electrolysis in 1920 . Today Nippon Sōda owns sodium carbonate plants in Nihongi ( Jōetsu ), Takaoka , Mizushima ( Kurashiki ) and Chiba ( Ichihara ). Nippon Sōda also manufactures phosphorus oxychloride , calcium hypochlorite and the controversial thermal paper developer D-8 . Among the products also include polybutadiene oils, fungicides iminoctadine triacetate ( Befran ), thiophanate-methyl ( Topsin-M ) and cyflufenamid ( Vegas ), and the insecticides acetamiprid ( Mospilan ), tebufenozide ( Romdan ) and the acaricide hexythiazox ( Nissorun ) . The Düsseldorf subsidiary Nisso Chemical Europe is responsible for the sale of pesticides in the EU.
Nippon Sōda formed the core company of the Nissō group , which was broken up after the war .
In 2011, the French Alkaline SAS and its subsidiary Métaux Spéciaux (MSSA) were taken over.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History
- ↑ a b Executives
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2016
- ↑ Svenja Beller: chemistry receipt . In: Greenpeace magazine . No. 5 , 2012 ( online - free full text).
- ↑ Agrochemicals ( Memento of the original from February 17, 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.
- ^ Acquisition of French Chemical Manufacturer Alkaline SAS
