Showa Denko (SDK) (Tokyo: 4004) has decided to raise prices of its high-purity gases for electronics which are used for production of semiconductor integrated circuits and other electronic materials. Specifically, SDK will raise prices of high-purity gases for electronics by 20% or more as from delivery on January 1, 2022. High-purity gases for electronics are […]
The hydrogen will be liquefied, and will be transported seaborne to the hydrogen discharging terminal on Kobe Airport Island Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (referred to as J-POWER) announced on 1 Feb 2021, commencement of hydrogen production from the coal gasification and hydrogen refining facility in the Japan-Australia Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project. The […]
Jointly with Fortescue Metals Group in Australia and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Iwatani Corporation (head office: Osaka and Tokyo; president: Hiroshi Majima; capital: 35 billion yen) announced that they will start consideration to operationalize green hydrogen production, liquefaction, and import to be performed jointly with Fortescue Metals Group (hereinafter, “Fortescue”), an Australian mining company, and Kawasaki […]
GaN and AlN devices has received the 2020 Industry Award from The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (“TNSC”) (President:Kenji Nagata) announces that its MOCVD equipment division for advanced GaN and AlN devices has received the 2020 Industry Award from The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science. This award […]
Shanghai Showa Chemicals Co., Ltd. (SSC), a Chinese subsidiary of Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) (TOKYO: 4004), established a branch in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China, and started operation of the branch in December 2020, aiming to strengthen its business to sell and distribute high-purity gases for electronics in China. The new branch is SSC’s third business […]
Iwatani Corporation (Head Offices: Osaka and Tokyo, President: Hiroshi Majima, Paid-in Capital:35 billion yen) has begun a study into the production of green hydrogen, liquefaction, and import, with the goals of launching business with Australian power company Stanwell and building a large-scale hydrogen supply chain in the future. In this study, Iwatani plans to produce […]
Establishing technology contributing to the spread of 5th-generation mobilecommunications systems The Air Water Group is promoting a “New Functional Materials Development Project” aimed at creating new value through close collaboration that it has underscored with a “realignment and integration” strategy for pooling technologies, products and ideas from both inside and outside of the Group. Under […]
In October 2020, Nippon Gases Iberia*1, a group of European operating companies, switched to 100% renewable energy-derived electricity using the Green Power Certificate*2 for the first time in the industrial gas industry for the electricity required in the manufacturing process of medical gases, industrial gases, and food gases in accordance with the European Environmental Improvement […]
Extension of term and expansion of consigned companies for NEDO renewable energy system technology development project in Namie town, Fukushima Prefecture Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Head Office: Kawasaki, Kanagawa; President and CEO: Mamoru Hatazawa; hereinafter “Toshiba ESS”), Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (Head Office: Sendai, Miyagi; President: Kojiro Higuchi; hereinafter “Tohoku Electric Power”), […]
Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (“TNSC”) hereby announces that it will start sales of the CM-100 large-scale liquid nitrogen program freezer for cell cryopreservation bags from April 2020. TNSC, the only liquid nitrogen type cryopreservation container manufacturer in Japan, has commercialized many related devices up until now. Approximately 300 units of one of those, a small […]