- Business
- Shofu Inc. (7979.T), a Japan-based company founded in 1922 and headquartered in Kyoto, manufactures and sells dental materials and equipment worldwide, operating primarily in the dental segment alongside smaller nail care and industrial materials businesses; its core products encompass abrasives, diamonds and carbides, cements, preventives, restoratives including bioactive composites, packable and flowable composites, glass ionomers, and sealants; dental ceramics, indirect composites, porcelain systems such as Vintage PRO, Halo, ZR, and MP, artificial teeth like Veracia and Endura, CAD/CAM materials for crowns, bridges, dentures, and implants; rotary instruments, polishers including Brownie, Greenie, Supergreenie, and Ceramisté series, prosthetics, adhesives like Super-Bond, instruments, waxes, articulators, and acrylic materials, with sales and subsidiaries spanning the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, China, Singapore, Brazil, India, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The company changed its name from Shofu Dental Mfg. Co., Ltd. to Shofu Inc. in 1983 and listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2012; recent developments include enhanced business alliances and capital participation with Mitsui Chemicals Inc. and Sun Medical Co., Ltd. in 2020, enabling initiatives such as the 2023 launch of Super-Bond dental adhesive in Brazil through a three-way partnership, alongside ongoing expansion via new subsidiaries like SHOFU Products Vietnam Co., Ltd. in 2020 and SHOFU Dental Brasil and India entities in 2017.