Daicel

Daicel Corporation
株式会社ダイセル
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 4202
IndustryChemical
Founded(September 8, 1919; 105 years ago (1919-09-08))
Headquarters
Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0011 (Osaka head office)
Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8230 (Tokyo head office)
,
Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Misao Fudaba
(President and CEO)
Products
RevenueIncrease JPY 412.83 billion (FY 2019) (US$ 3.95 billion) (FY 2019)
Increase JPY 4.98 billion (FY 2019) (US$ 47.63 million) (FY 2019)
Number of employees
11,606 (2019)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Daicel Corporation (株式会社ダイセル, Kabushiki gaisha Daiseru) is a chemical company based in Japan. It operates business in celluloid technologies, organic chemicals, high-performance chemicals, polymers and pyrotechnic devices. The company's products include cellulose acetate, tow for cigarette filters, high-performance chemicals, engineering plastics like liquid crystal polymers (LPCs), resin compounds, and automotive airbag inflators.[3]

The company formed under the name of Dainippon Celluloid Company from a 1919 merger of eight regional celluloid manufacturers and changed its name to the present one in 1966.[4] Its first subsidiary, Fuji Photo Film, was set up in 1934 to produce nitrocellulose film.[5] Eventually this company became Fujifilm.

As of early 2020, Daicel owned a majority stake in Polyplastics. By the end of 2020, Daicel purchased the remaining minority stake from Celanese and attained 100% ownership of Polyplastics.[6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Corporate Data". Daicel Corporation. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "Company Profile". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Company Profile". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  4. ^ Saito, Mari (November 5, 2014). "Recalls, uncertainty to push air bag maker Takata to wider loss". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  5. ^ Fred Aftalion (January 1, 1991). A History of the International Chemical Industry. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 206, 317. ISBN 0-8122-8207-8.
  6. ^ Moore, Stephen (July 22, 2020). "Daicel Acquires Celanese Share in Polyplastics". PlasticsToday. Retrieved April 10, 2024.
  7. ^ Research, Zacks Equity (October 13, 2020). "Celanese Wraps Divestment of Stake in Polyplastics to Daicel". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved April 10, 2024.
  8. ^ Hartmann, Jens. "CELANESE: Sale of Polyplastics share to Daicel completed / Investments in Asian compounding". Plasteurope.com. Retrieved April 10, 2024.