Kureha Company Description

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 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, 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.