- CEO
- Tatsuo Nakasaki
- Full Time Employees
- 856
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: major diversified
- Address
- Nichirei Akashi-cho Bldg. Tokyo TY Japan 104-0044
- IPO Date
- May 18, 1962
- Business
- Toho Chemical Industry Company, Limited (4409.T) manufactures and sells surfactants, specialty chemicals, resins, and industrial chemicals primarily for daily consumables, civil engineering, rubber and plastics, machines and energy, and electronic information materials industries in Japan and internationally; its core products include surfactants for shampoos, body soaps, detergents, textiles, agricultural pesticides, and pharmaceuticals; de-foamers, sizing agents, and wet-strength resins for pulp and paper; polymeric dispersants, foaming agents, and shrinkage reducers for concrete; anti-static and anti-fogging agents, emulsifiers for synthetic rubber and resins for plastics; brake fluid bases, metalworking fluids, crude oil demulsifiers, and lubricant additives for energy and transportation; as well as resins for semiconductors, fine cleaning agents, and solvents for electronic materials. Founded in 1938 and headquartered in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, the company operates production facilities including the Chiba, Oppama, Kashima, and Yokkaichi plants in Japan, with consolidated subsidiaries such as Toho Chemical Industry Shanghai Co., Ltd. in China, Toho Huaiji Chemical Co., Ltd. and Toho Huizhou Chemical Co., Ltd. in Guangdong Province, China, and Toho Chemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd.. Recent developments encompass the acquisition of ISO 45001 occupational health and safety certification in March 2024, expansion of electronic information material purification facilities at the Chiba Plant in 2019 and construction of a new resin factory there in December 2021, merger with subsidiary Toho Chemical Warehousing Co., Ltd. in July 2020, production facility expansions at Toho Chemical Industry Shanghai Co., Ltd. in August 2020, transition to the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market in April 2022, and ongoing R&D for high-functional fine chemicals across its four major product lines.