Time has great endeavors by man to harness chemistry in his quest to improve life and the environment.

KAWAGUCHI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO,. LTD. was established in 1937 and succeeded in domestic Japanese production of organic rubber chemicals.

For more than sixty years, the Company has contributed incessantly to the growth of the Japanese rubber industry as a leading manufacturer specializing in organic rubber chemicals.

Rubber chemicals had been the indispensable additives used in the manufacture of these rubber products. The Company’s others contributions to chemical development have been largely in supplying significant product in the fields of plastic additives, monomer stabilizers, photo chemicals and intermediates.

Besides being a leading manufacturer of rubber chemicals, the company has also a significant role in other fields with our in-house know-how and outstanding technologies developed over many years since its establishment in 1937. We have been developing and refining particularly the market needs for a wide range of compounds which contains the “S” atom in its chemical formulae. Parallel to this development, the company has strived to concentrate on the business of custom production of agro and pharmacy intermediates, all enhances by our original synthesis and process technology.

In recent years, ecological imbalance threatening human life on this planet has generates much social awareness leading to more stringent and severe regulations to protect life against environmental pollution and resource contamination.

In efforts to contribute to the care of the environment, we are pouring our energies into developing environmental friendly chemicals such as metal scavengers.

KAWAGUCHI is aiming at he accomplishment of more severe quality assurance systems under ISO-9001 in our quest to satisfy customer’s needs and requests. We continue our efforts to keep our customers inform and updated on our corporate endeavors through flexible thinking and prompt response.
 
Yoshitaka Yamada
President