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Responding to market needs with state-of-the-art
facilities
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Located within the company's factory in Iwaki,
Fukushima Prefecture, Research Center hosts Kureha's core research
facilities. These laboratories are the scene for research into materials
in a number of key business areas, including the development and improvement
of industrial products in a variety of forms, such as raw materials
and processed products, the development and evaluation of agrochemicals,
such as fungicides, and the development of product manufacturing technologies.
In each area Kureha continues to work on both the specialty products
and the manufacturing technology that is required by the changing
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Exterior view of the Research
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Sythetic experimentation of
agrochemicals |
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Creativity is the source of pharmaceutical
development
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Kureha conducts research and development
in the pharmaceuticals area, based on life science research, at its
Biomedical Research Laboratories in Shinjuku. The anti-cancer agent
Krestin, Kureha's first pharmaceutical medicine, was developed
based on the company's food processing, preservation and evaluation
technologies. In addition, Kremezin, the therapeutic agent
for chronic kidney disease was developed through the utilization of
activated carbon technology to enable medical use of adsorptive carbon.
Furthering Kureha's trend of developing pharmaceutical products based
on unique ideas and concepts, the company is now working on a new
medical development employing immunology and adsorption as its key
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Exterior view of the Biomedical
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Designing molecular structures |
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Development of original technologies for
food packaging
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Kureha's unique food packaging technologies
are developed at Polymer Processing & Products Research Laboratories in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture. In order to create packaging materials
suited to our evolving needs, this facility conducts research and
evaluation on foods to be packaged, supports the company's customer
packaging technologies, and develops and evaluates packaging materials
and solutions. Kureha's high barrier lamination material, Besela,
with its high quality oxygen barrier, was created at this facility
following persistent efforts to create a barrier technology able to
maintain the taste of the food to be wrapped, while at the same time
preserving it safe. |
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Exterior view of the Polymer Processing &
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Measuring the oxygen permeability
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