Kureha Company Description

Kureha Corporation manufactures and sells functional materials, specialty chemicals, and plastics in Japan and internationally.

It 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 renal failure, agricultural and horticultural fungicides, caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorite, monochlorobenzene, para-dichlorobenzene, and ortho-dichlorobenzene.

The Specialty Plastics segment offers household plastic wraps, garbage bags for kitchen sink, plastic food containers, cooking paper, PVDF fishing lines, polyvinylidene chloride films, multilayer heat-shrinkable films, and auto-pack machinery for food packaging.

The Construction segment provides civil engineering and construction contracting business, 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.

The company was incorporated in 1944 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Kureha Corporation

Country	Japan
Founded	1944
Industry	Specialty Chemicals
Sector	Materials
Employees	4,217
CEO	Yutaka Kobayashi

Contact Details

Address: 3-3-2 Nihonbashi Hamacho Tokyo, 103-8552 Japan
Phone	81 3 3249 4666
Website	kureha.co.jp

Stock Details

Ticker Symbol	4023
Exchange	Tokyo Stock Exchange
Stock Type	Common Stock
Fiscal Year	April - March
Reporting Currency	JPY
ISIN Number	JP3271600003
SIC Code	2821

Key Executives

Name	Position
Yutaka Kobayashi	Chief Executive Officer
Kazushige Tsurutani	Head of Investor Relations