Ube Kosan
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3158800007 |
| founding | 1942 (1897) |
| Seat |
Ube , Yamaguchi Prefecture , Japan Minato , Tokyo , Japan |
| management | Yuzuru Yamamoto (President and CEO) |
| Number of employees | 10,764 |
| sales | 641.7 billion yen (€ 5.1 billion) |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.ube-ind.co.jp |
| As of March 31, 2016 | |
Ube Kōsan KK ( Japanese 宇 部 興 産 株式会社 , Ube Kōsan Kabushiki kaisha , English Ube Industries, Ltd. ) is a Japanese chemical company based in Ube and the Minato district of Tokyo .
history
The company has its origins in the silent company of the Okinoyama coal mine ( 沖 ノ 山 炭 鉱 , ~ tankō ) founded in 1897 , the silent company of the Ube Shinkawa ironworks ( 宇 部 新 川 鉄 工 所 , ~ tekkōjo ) from 1914, the Ube Cement Seizō KK ( 宇 部 セ メ ン ト 製造 株式会社 , "cement production Ube") from 1923 and the Ube Chissō Kōgyō KK ( 宇 部 窒 素 工業 株式会社 , “nitrogen production Ube”) from 1933, which merged in 1942 to form Ube Kōsan .
In 2002 Ube built a factory for aluminum wheels in Sarnia (Canada), which was closed again in 2009 after losses.
In 2003 the crop protection business was sold to SDS Biotech , a subsidiary of Shōwa Denkō .
Chemical plant Ube
Ube power plant
Ube Kōsan private road
Products
Ube's most important business area, Chemicals & Plastics, with 35% of sales, includes the production of synthetic rubber as well as caprolactam and laurolactam for the polyamides PA 6.6 (nylon) and PA 12 . This is followed by cement production with 33%. The specialty chemicals sector , which accounts for only 10% of sales, includes the production of polyimides , the herbicide Beflubutamide , the fungicide Diflumetorim (together with Nissan Chemical Industries ), the acaricide pyrimidifene (together with Sankyo ), Purelyte electrolytes and microporous polyolefin film for lithium Ion accumulators , high-purity catechol and bis (hydroxylammonium) sulfate as well as silicon carbide fibers. The pharmaceutical sector generates 11% of profit with only 2% of sales. Power generation accounts for 11% of sales.
Individual evidence
- ^ Message from the President
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2016 ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 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.
- ^ History
- ^ Ube Industries Completes Aluminum Wheel Factory in Canada , May 13, 2002
- ↑ Ube Industries Announces Dissolution of North American Wheel Manufacturing Operations ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2016 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. , February 6, 2009
- ↑ SDK's Subsidiary Acquires Ube's Agrochemicals Business January 8, 2003
- ↑ Electrolytes “Purelyte” ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ Polyolefin microporous film UPORE® ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2016 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.
- ↑ Annual Report 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , P. 11
