- CEO
- Osamu Noma
- Full Time Employees
- 176
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: specialty
- Address
- 4-4-6, Uzu Wakayama WA Japan 641-0043
- IPO Date
- Feb 1, 1963
- Business
- Sugai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (TSE:4120) manufactures and sells fine chemicals, including active ingredients and intermediates for agrochemicals; intermediates for pharmaceuticals; functional chemicals; dyestuffs and pigments; and surfactants. Its pharmaceutical intermediates support the production of circulatory system agents such as antithrombotics, antihypertensives, and lipid-lowering drugs; respiratory system agents including asthma medications; antimicrobial and antiviral agents; cancer treatments for colon cancer; and central nervous system agents for intractable genetic diseases. The company's agrochemical offerings encompass active ingredients and intermediates for fungicides targeting rice blast, fruit rust, and vegetable clubroot; insecticides and miticides for crops and garden use; herbicides for soybeans, rice, peanuts, and lawns; and veterinary pharmaceuticals for flea and tick treatments in pets; while functional chemicals serve optical and electronic materials, super-heat-resistant resins, epoxy resin monomers for LED encapsulation, skin-whitening cosmetics via vitamin C derivatives, and fragrance intermediates; and surfactants function in cleaning, emulsification, paints, agrochemicals, inks, disinfection, and static prevention.
Founded in 1928 and incorporated in 1952 with headquarters in Wakayama, Japan, the company operates production sites in Wakayama and Fukui, research institutes in Wakayama and Fukui, and sales offices in Osaka and Tokyo, exporting over 50% of its products to customers worldwide through a "one product, one customer" contract manufacturing model leveraging proprietary organic synthesis technologies.
In recent years, Sugai Chemical has focused on developing original products to meet sophisticated market demands, invested in equipment at its Fukui site in 2019, transitioned to the Standard Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2022 amid market reorganization, and earned recognition as a "Youth Yell" company by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in 2022 for youth employment initiatives; it also advanced sustainability efforts, including ISO 14001-2015 certification across sites in 2016 and a shift to LNG fuel at Fukui in 2017.