This article showcases our top picks for the best Japanese based Chemical companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Chemical industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Japanese Chemical Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Kyulux
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kyulux researches, develops, and manufactures organic electroluminescence (organic EL) material.
GORYO Chemical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
GORYO Chemical is the only manufacturer specializing in fluorescent dyes in Japan.
BONAC
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
BONAC specializes in research and development of nucleic acid medicines.
JITSUBO
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
JITSUBO aims to be a Peptide Lowest Cost Producer by continuously improving core technologies by incorporating all the latest technologies.
Asahi Kasei
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Asahi Kasei provides solutions based in chemistry and materials science to a range of markets, including fibers, chemicals,
TRINUS Japan
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
TRINUS is a Daiwa Securities, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Accenture, and Linkers Corporation’s CSO & CFO.
NanoMist Technologies
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
NanoMist techonologies utilizes nano-meter-size “mist” generated by irradiation of MHz ultrasound.
TECHNO SYSTEM Japan
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Techno Systemis prepare the infrastructure necessary for everyday life
ASM
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
ASM is a material science company that commercializes ‘Slide-ring materials’ (SRM), a polymeric material with movable cross-links.
Ac-Planta
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Ac-Planta provides research, development, manufacture, and sales of agrochemicals.
Nakayama Amorphous
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nakayama Amorphous is a manufacturer of amorphous alloy-based products intended to create materials that support social infrastructure.
Sumitomo Chemical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. is a Japanese company that produces and markets various types of chemicals.
Teijin
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Teijin is a chemical, pharmaceutical and information technology company.
Kao Corporation
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kao Corporation is a chemical and cosmetics company, developing consumer product business that targets general consumers.
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation.
Asahi Kasei Pharma
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Asahi Kasei Pharma is a specialty pharmaceutical firm with a global presence by focusing on the development of new world-class drugs.
Kaneka
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kaneka is a Japanese international chemical manufacturing company.
Shin-Etsu Chemical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Shin-Etsu Chemical provides key materials and technologies people’s daily lives as well as to the advance of industry and society.
ITOCHU Chemical Frontier
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
ITOCHU Chemical Frontier is a chemical manufacturing company.
Kuraray
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kuraray offers commercializing synthetic rayon and produce synthetic fiber-based on original Japanese technologies.
Showa Denko
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Showa Denko is a Japanese chemical engineering firm.
Tosoh
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Tosoh engages in the manufacture and sale of basic chemicals, petrochemicals, fine chemicals, and specialty products.
Lintec Corp.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Lintec Corp. develops, manufactures, and sells pressure-sensitive adhesive materials in Japan and internationally.
Mitsui Chemicals
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Mitsui Chemicals provides various technologies and materials for automotive, electronics and information, life, and packaging industries.
Idemitsu Kosan
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Idemitsu Kosan is a petroleum company that operates oil platforms, refineries and produces petroleum, oils, and petrochemical products.
Ube Industries
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Ube is group made up of some 140 companies that cover a diverse range of business activities, including many companies that are industries.
Nippon Shokubai
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nippon Shokubai is a chemical manufacturing company.
Kureha Corporation
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kureha Corporation is a global specialty products company.
Denka Co.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
The Denka Group, of which DENKI KAGAKU KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA forms the central core.
KISCO
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
KISCO specializes in the sales of pharmaceutical products and semiconductor devices.
Taiyo Holdings Co.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Taiyo Holdings manufactures and distributes solder resist chemicals for printed wiring boards (PWBs) and others.
NOF CORPORATION
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
NOF CORPORATION is a chemicals company based out of 4-20-3, EBISU, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
Nippon Kayaku
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nippon Kayaku is an industrial explosives manufacturer.
Kansai Paint
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kansai Paint manufactures and sales all types of paints.
Adeka
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Adeka is a manufacturer of chemical and food products.
Takasago Internationalrporation
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Takasago International Corporation is a chemical company located in Kamata.
Tokuyama
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Tokuyama Group leverages its highly advanced chemical technologies to provide society with a wide range of materials for products.
Mitsubishi Rayon
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Mitsubishi Rayon is a Japanese textile company that manufactures chemicals, plastics, and fibers.
Daikin Industries
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Daikin Industries is a multinational air conditioning manufacturing company.
DFC
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
The conventional organic synthesis method uses a plurality of solutions in a container to adjust the temperature and agitate, but has
OOYOO
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
OOYOO is a Tech venture, which researches and development of gas separation membranes for carbon dioxide, hydrogen, etc.
NIT Consultant
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
NIT Consultant specializes in IT services and developing AI & robotics applications for the chemical industry.
Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sanwa Kagaku Kenkyusho is a company that provides total health solutions through diabetes treatment.
Chori
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Chori specializes in the textile, chemical, and machinery businesses.
Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha is a chemical manufacturing company specializes in the titanium dioxide, agrochemical and pharmaceutical.
OKAYA & CO.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
OKAYA & CO. engages in the sale, exporting, and importing of products in a multifaceted manner via the global network of the Okaya Group.
Nippon Paint Surf Chemicals
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nippon Paint Surf Chemicals is providing surface treatment service for food & beverage, automobiles, and steel industries.
Hitachi SC
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Hitachi SC is an IT solution provider specializes in the chemical, process and materials industries.
AltFlow
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
AltFlow aims to provide originally developed flow synthesis technology, especially flow micro technology for synthetic flow chemistry.
Sekisui Plastics
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sekisui Plastics is a plastics solution company that manufactures the expanded plastic particles.
Sakai Chemical Industry
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sakai Chemical Industry is a chemical product company.
Kobe Material Testing Laboratory
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
KMTL is a specialized specimen manufacturer and provides services into materials testing and chemical analysis.
Nippon Chemical Industrial
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nippon Chemical Industrial is a production and export of electronic materials, organic chemicals and agricultural chemicals.
Nihon Parkerizing
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nihon Parkerizing is a technology based company in the field of surface modification technology.
Nihon Tokushu Toryo
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nihon Tokushu Toryo manufactures automobile components and paints.
Shell Japan
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Shell Japan is establishing business opportunities in the areas of liquid natural gas, new energies, chemicals and technology.
Hodogaya Chemical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Hodogaya Chemical is a chemical manufacturing company such as dyes, intermediates, and resins.
Cataler
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Cataler produces exhaust gas purification catalysts, catalyst materials and chemical solutions for the automotive industry.
Toagosei
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Toagosei is a chemical company produces in the cyanoacrylate adhesives.
Sumitomo Riko Company
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sumitomo Riko Company is a manufacturer of rubber and resin products for automobile use.
Central Glass
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Central Glass is a manufacturer of glass products and chemical products.
Polymatech Japan Co., Ltd.
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Polymatech Japan aims to adapt to the ever-more diversified needs in the electronic field.
Sumitomo Seika Chemicals
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Sumitomo Seika Chemicals is a chemical manufacturing company.
Kumiai Chemical Industry Co
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kumiai Chemical Industry is a chemical manufacturing company.
DKS
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
DKS is a surfactants and other industrial chemicals company.
Japan Pest Control Association
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Japan Pest Control Association is a non-profit organization that provides health, labor and welfare services.
Biofermin Pharmaceutical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Biofermin Pharmaceutical manufactures pharmaceutical products and markets them through chemical industries.
Nitta Gelatin
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nitta Gelatin is a producer of gelatin and collagen products.
Asahi Chemical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Asahi specializes in thermosetting resin fabrication and injection molding, as well as paint and finished-goods assembly.
Labotech
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Labotech works on environmental analysis such as air survey, water quality survey, soil & waste survey, development of automatic analyzer
Konoshima Chemical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Konoshima Chemical is a building materials, chemicals and ceramics manufacturing company.
Harima Chemicals Group
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Harima Chemicals Group is a chemical manufacturing company.
Manual
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Manual specializes in oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation related to domestic and overseas plant construction fields.
Fumakilla
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Fumakilla engages in the manufacture and sale of insecticide products, household items, gardening items, and business items.
S.T. Corporation
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
S.T. Corporation is a manufacturer of deodorizers and air fresheners, mothproofing agents, gloves, dehumidifiers and other products.
SDS Biotech
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
SDS Biotech is a manufacturer of agricultural chemicals, industrial biocides and public health products.
Showa Denko – Aluminium Business
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Showa Denko – Aluminium Business is a producer of functional chemicals and industrial materials.
Kh Neochem
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
KH Neochem is a petrochemical products manufacturing company.
Shoko
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Shoko is a chemical, synthetic resins, and metals manufacturing company.
Nippon Soda
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nippon Soda is a chemical company whose products include chemicals, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.
Hokko Chemical Industry
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Hokko Chemical Industry engages in crop protection products business.
Nisshin Kasei
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nisshin Kasei is a chemical trading company that supplies various raw materials to major chemical manufacturers in Japan and abroad.
Cota
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Cota is a manufacturer and seller of hair cosmetics and quasi-drugs for beauty salons.
Toyo Gosei
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Toyo Gosei is a manufacturer and seller of chemical products.
MHI Solution Technologies
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
MHI Solution Technologies designs and manufactures chemical and mechanical equipment.
Nicca Chemical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nicca Chemical engages in manufacturing and sales of surfactants for the textile chemicals.
Kawasaki Kasei Chemicals
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kawasaki Kasei Chemicals specializes in the manufacture and supply of various chemical products for many industrials projects.
Fuso Chemical
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Fuso Chemical manufactures fruit acid and its salts.
Daiichi Kigenso Kagaku Kogyo
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Daiichi Kigenso Kagaku Kogyo engages in the manufacture, sale, research and development of zirconium compounds and inorganic compounds.
OAT Agrio
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
OAT Agrio provides research and development, manufacture and sale of agrochemicals and fertilizers.
Emori
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Emori engages in wholesale of chemical materials & electronics components, development & distribution of software.
Arakawa Chemical Industries
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Arakawa Chemical Industries manufacture and sales of chemicals for paper manufacturing, intermediate materials for electronic materials.
Uyemura
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Uyemura engages in the manufacture and sale of surface finishing materials and machinery.
Nihon Plast
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Nihon Plast is a manufacture, repair, and sale of synthetic resins and die-cast metal molds and machinery.
Kanto Denka Kogyo
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Kanto Denka Kogyo is a manufacturer of chemicals, special gas and battery materials.
Aica Kogyo
Crunchbase Website Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Aica Kogyo is a chemical manufacturing company.