Daicel Corporation

About

Daicel Corporation engages in the materials, medical/healthcare, smart, safety, and engineering plastics businesses in Japan and internationally. The company offers medical/healthcare products, including BELLOCEA S7, a spherical cellulose acetate particle; FLAVOCELL S-Equol; Urolithin A; polyglycerols; konjac ceramide; excipients for foods; chiral columns and reagents; and Actranza lab, as well as separation and analytical services. It also provides performance films, solvents for electronic materials, cycloaliphatic epoxies, polymers for photoresists, optical lenses, and caprolactone derivatives; functional films and materials used in smartphones, PCs, TVs, and in-vehicle displays, polymers and solvents; and lenses used in VR, smartphones and various sensors. In addition, the company offers airbags inflators, pyro-fuses, and gas generators for seat belt pretensioners; acetic acid, acetic acid derivatives, acetate tow, ketene / diketene derivatives, cellulose acetate for LCD optical films, amines, and 1,3-butylene glycol; and reverse osmosis membrane and ultrafiltration membrane products, as well as water treatment systems. Further, it provides Engineering plastics comprising polyacetal, polybutylene terephthalate, polyphenylene sulfide, liquid crystal polymer, and cyclic olefin copolymer; AS resin, acetate plastics, water-soluble polymers, and barrier films for packaging; ABS resins, various polymer alloys, plastic compounds; Polyamide-12 and PEEK resin; and various molded containers. The company's products are used in transportation, electronics, medical care, personal care, everyday life, and environment and energy applications. The company was formerly known as Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd. and changed its name to Daicel Corporation in October 2011. Daicel Corporation was incorporated in 1919 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.