Company Profile

Kureha Corporation manufactures and sells functional materials, specialty chemicals, and plastics in Japan and internationally. The company operates through five segments: Advanced Materials, Specialty Chemicals, Specialty Plastics, Construction, and Other Operations. The Advanced Materials segment offers polyphenylene sulfide, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), processed polyglycolic acid products, carbon fiber, and bead-shaped activated carbon products. The Specialty Chemicals segment provides therapeutic agents for chronic kidney disease, agricultural and horticultural fungicides, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorite, monochlorobenzene, para-dichlorobenzene, and ortho-dichlorobenzene. The Specialty Plastics segment offers household plastic wraps, drain bags for kitchen sinks, plastic food containers, cooking sheets, PVDF fishing lines, polyvinylidene chloride film, automatic filling and sealing machines for food packaging. The Construction segment provides civil engineering and construction contracting, and construction supervision services. The Other Operations segment offers industrial waste treatment and environmental processing facilities; physiochemical analysis, measurement, testing, and inspection services; and transportation and warehousing, and medical services. It serves to various application such as agriculture, fishery, medical and welfare, energy, infrastructure, transportation, construction industry, automobile, daily necessities, packaging materials, home appliances, interior, and factory. The company was incorporated in 1944 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.