- CEO
- Hiroshi Majima
- Full Time Employees
- 11,332
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Conglomerates
- Address
- 6-4, Hommachi 3-chome Osaka Japan 541-0053
- IPO Date
- Sep 21, 2020
- Business
- Iwatani Corporation (IWTNF) engages primarily in the integrated energy and industrial gases sectors; it supplies liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for household, commercial, and industrial uses including propane gas, portable gas cooking stoves such as Cassette-Feu and MIHARI gas leak alarms, and hydrogen energy solutions encompassing hydrogen refueling stations, liquefied hydrogen production plants, and fuel cell technologies like the Mahoroba hydrogen fuel cell ship; in industrial gases, it provides high-pressure gases, specialty gases, helium from facilities such as Osaka Helium Center and Tokyo Helium Center, and dry ice; the Materials segment offers electronic materials for displays and batteries, functional films, stainless steel, aluminum, special high alloys, plastics including bio-PET resins and PET resins, chemicals, ceramics, agri-bio products, and metals; the Machinery segment delivers semiconductor manufacturing equipment, welding robots via partnership with Yaskawa Electric, machine tools, sheet metal machinery, pumps, compressors, furnaces, and environmental equipment. Founded on May 5, 1930, and incorporated on February 2, 1945, the company maintains headquarters at the Osaka Head Office in Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan, and the Tokyo Head Office in Minato-ku, Tokyo; it operates 51 offices with 47 domestic and 4 overseas sites, supported by 11,859 consolidated employees as of March 31, 2025, and generates consolidated net sales of 883.011 billion yen. Iwatani conducts business predominantly in Japan across industrial, residential, automotive, electronics, healthcare, and food sectors, with international operations in the Americas, Europe, Asia including China, Southeast Asia, and Australia for gas distribution, materials trading, and hydrogen projects. Recent developments include the 2024 acquisition of shares in Cosmo Energy Holdings Co., Ltd., establishing it as an equity-method affiliate to advance hydrogen infrastructure and sustainable fuels like SAF from cooking oil and CCS initiatives; completion of the hydrogen fuel cell ship Mahoroba and Kobe Training Facility in 2024; a September 2025 collaboration with Toyota Tsusho and Eurus Energy for onsite low-carbon hydrogen production at Aichi Steel; equity and debt financing in Caremag SAS in March 2025 for rare earth diversification; plans for two new liquefied hydrogen plants in Kawasaki and Toyota City by 2027 with 50 billion yen investment; relocation of the Tokyo Head Office in June 2025; and a 4-for-1 stock split effective September 27, 2024.