Tosoh
customer magazine
Tosoh Corporation is a Japanese chemical company established in
1935. It comprises more than 130 companies worldwide and a mul-
tiethnic workforce in excess of 11,000 people. During the company’s
2014 fiscal year - from April 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014 - the Tosoh
Group generated net sales of US$ 7.5 billion. The company makes
and sells an astounding 1,500 products. And that doesn’t include the
various grades of those products or the over 10,000 additional parts
that go into Tosoh’s bioscience diagnostic systems.
In short, Tosoh supplies a multitude of industries with the finished
products and with the raw materials to manufacture the products
that have revolutionized and made possible modern civilization. Look
around you. It is almost impossible to find a manufactured item that
does not include something from Tosoh. Paper cups, computers, hy-
brid cars, homes, solar panels, office buildings, highways, commu-
nication networks, drinking water, clothes, shoes, pharmaceuticals,
printer inks, cell phones, watches. Even, for some people, teeth —
made from Tosoh’s superceramic, zirconia.
Central to this productivity and product omnipresence is Tosoh
Corporation’s main manufacturing hub, the Nanyo Complex. It is loca-
ted in the Yamaguchi Prefecture on Honchu Island in western Japan.
This sprawling complex is nothing less than a self-contained city with
its own power generation plants, port and shipping, and, of course,
manufacturing facilities.
NANYO COMPLEX
THE HOME OF TSKgel & TOYOPEARL
Tosoh Bioscience GmbH is a fully owned subsidiary of Tosoh Corporation, the manufacturer of all OUR TSKgel,
TOYOPEARL and EcoSEC products. Many of our customers know our brands better than our company which
reflects the high reputationandqualityof the products. We decided to take the opportunityof our 25thanniversary
in Europe to provide some insights into Tosoh Corporation’s Japan-based Nanyo Complex and the long and proud
history of our parent company.
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25 YEARS IN EUROPE
79 YEARS IN JAPAN
