Nippon Kayaku Co Ltd ADR (NPKYY)

Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. develops, manufactures, and sells functional chemicals, pharmaceuticals, safety systems, and aggro products in Japan and internationally. It operates through Mobility and Imaging Business Area, Fine Chemicals Business Area, and Life Sciences Business Area segments. The mobility and imaging segment provides airbag inflators, micro gas generators for seatbelt pretensioners, squibs, It also offer liquid crystal display parts, projector parts, x-ray analysis equipment parts; the fine chemicals offers epoxy resin, maleimide resin, epoxy resin hardener, reactive flame-retardant resin, acrylic ester, UV-curable resin for resist, liquid and dry film resist, LCD and semiconductor cleaner, sealant for liquid crystal displays, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, such as laminator, remover, mounter, UV irradiation machine; In addition it provides pigments for inkjet printers, dyes for inkjet textile printing, industrial inkjet inks, materials for image sensors, dichroic dyes for photochromic glass, near-infrared absorbers, dyes for textiles and paper, colorants for resins, thermal imaging, colorants, pigment derivatives; catalyst such as, catalyst for acrylic acid production, acrolein, and methacrylic acid; the life science segment, includes anti-cancer agents, biological preparations, circulatory system agents, photodynamic diagnostic agents, in vitro diagnostic medicines, intravascular embolization materials, pharmaceutical active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates, food additives, health food ingredients, food quality preservatives, cleaning and disinfecting agents, and aggro products, such as insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, acaricides, epidemic prevention insecticides, soil fungicides, animal repellents. The company was formerly known as Nihon Kayaku Seizou Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. in 1945. Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1916 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.