Shōwa Denkō
| Shōwa Denkō
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3368000000 |
| founding | 1939 |
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Tokyo , Japan
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| management | Hideo Ichikawa ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 10,234 |
| sales | 848.1 billion yen (about € 6.76 billion) |
| Branch | Chemistry, electronics, aluminum |
| Website | http://www.sdk.co.jp/ |
| Stand 2013 | |
Shōwa Denkō KK ( Japanese 昭和 電工 株式会社 ; English Showa Denko KK ) is a Japanese chemical company that is listed in the Nikkei 225 .
Shōwa Denkō was founded in the 1930s by Mori Nobuteru as part of the Mori Group through the merger of Shōwa Hiryō (fertilizer) and Nippon Denki Kōgyō (electronics) and was originally mainly active in the manufacture of fertilizers ( ammonium sulfate ). Today the company generates its sales through chemicals, aluminum smelting and electronics. With the takeover of GMM Group in November 2016 and ILAG Industrielack AG in 2019, Shōwa Denkō is aiming for a strategic further development of the coating materials division.
Products
Showa Denko provides, inter alia, the bio - Polyester polybutylene succinate (PBS), HPLC columns ( Shodex ), hard disk platter , and rare earth forth.
Scandals
- In the 1948 Shōwa-Denkō scandal , it became known that the company had paid bribes to public officials in order to obtain government loans. The scandal contributed to the overthrow of the coalition government of Prime Minister Ashida Hitoshi .
- In 1964 the company for the contamination of river water was treated with methyl mercury compounds blamed the outbreak of Niigata Minamata disease had led.
- 1989 tryptophan scandal: After the conversion of the production of the amino acid tryptophan to a new genetic engineering technique led to many unexplained diseases with eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome , which later on contamination with 1,1'-ethylidene bis (tryptophan) could be attributed .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Financial Results 2013
- ↑ 2009 Financial Results (Consolidated) ( Memento from April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Showa Denko Acquires GMM Group, Non-stick Coatings Manufacturer | News Releases | SHOWA DENKO KK Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Showa Denko to Acquire ILAG Group, Global Non-stick Coatings Manufacturer | News Releases | SHOWA DENKO KK Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ :: Showa Denko HD Singapore ::. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Showa Denko's Patents for Rare Earth Magnetic Alloys. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Sick on prescription. L-tryptophan: healthy business with unhealthy pills ( memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the TIME of October 18, 1991
- ↑ Kunio A. Yamaoka, Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Ghen Inuo, Ichiro Saito, Jean-Pierre Kolb, Koichiro Fujita, Sadao Kashiwazaki: 1,1'-Ethylidenebis (tryptophan) (peak E) induces functional activation of human eosinophils and interleukin 5 production from T lymphocytes: Association of eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome with al-tryptophan contaminant . In: Journal of Clinical Immunology . tape 14 , no. 1 , January 1994, pp. 50-60 , doi : 10.1007 / bf01541175 ( PDF ).
