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Chemicals & Electronics

About Business

The Chemicals & Electronics Division conducts business in three fields—automotive materials, chemicals, and electronics—to contribute to stakeholders who are responding to major environmental changes such as the recent movement toward realizing a decarbonized society, the movement toward realizing a new mobility society, and geopolitical changes.

In the automotive materials business, the division is concentrating on globally establishing battery supply chains for local production for local consumption in anticipation of growing battery demand. From the perspectives of decarbonization and circular economy businesses, the division is creating a car-to-car recycling system through recycler PLANIC Co., Ltd., in which it has invested. Furthermore, it aims to contribute to the development of optics for use in next-generation automobiles by applying its vehicle-lamp optical lens technologies.

In the chemicals business, the division handles a wide range of chemical products, such as detergent raw materials, sanitary materials, and packaging materials, and strives to expand its business even further by leveraging its well-advanced sales network. Regarding the production and sales of the important resource iodine, of which the division has the largest share in the global market, the division is strengthening its value chains through activities such as the manufacture and sale of iodine compounds. Toyotsu PET Recycling Systems Co., Ltd. started full-scale operations in October 2022, and the division will contribute to raw material recycling and conversion by recycling plastic resources and promoting the widespread use of plant-derived biomass plastics.

In the electronics business, the division which has some largest electronic device companies, is Japan’s largest trader of electronic devices and supplies electronic devices and software globally. With keen foresight when it comes to changing technologies, the division is developing technologies for environment-conscious vehicles and developing electronic devices and services for connected cars. It is also readying advanced infrastructure and developing and commercializing new services for a society that will be based on autonomous driving. The division is not only globalizing networking businesses that connect people and products but also strengthening business creation by combining know-how, functions, and technologies for realizing a smart society. By converging the domains of electronic devices and ICT, it is also contributing to the provision of new value and the achievement of a sustainable society.

Iodine production plant (Chile)
Electronics manufacturing service
Main Products & Services
Automotive Materials Global implementation of integrated functions ranging from the procurement of raw materials to parts processing, sales, logistics, and molding, and the provision of customer-oriented technology, expansion of the battery supply chain in the next mobility field, manufacturing entity operation and global implementation in the optical field, and development of the circulation business in the carbon neutrality and circular economy fields
Chemicals Sales of a wide range of products and raw materials including detergents, sanitary materials, packaging materials, solvents, and inorganic chemicals (iodine, phosphorous, etc.), operation of manufacturing businesses for these products, handling of industry-leading biochemicals, and operation and development of the plastic recycling business
Electronics Sales of electronics components incorporated into vehicles, consumer electronics, information and communications devices, and industrial equipment, development and sales of software, global rollout of information and communication technologies (ICT) services, and development of the connected services business
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Initiatives to Solve Social Issues

  • Strive for the elimination of traffic casualties and contribute to the creation of a safe and comfortable mobility society
  • Contribute to the development of a recycling-based society by transforming waste into resources for manufacturing

Initiatives in the Automotive Materials Business

Initiatives in the Chemicals Business

Initiatives in the Electronics Business

Feature
  1. 1To respond to what is said to be a once-in-a-century profound transformation in the automotive industry, we are using our wide-ranging knowledge in the automotive materials business as a strength to provide functions that integrate processes from product development and design to production as well as technology that has our customers in mind. In the electronics business, we sell products that have the strengths of state-of-the-art, high-performance semiconductors and embedded software technology, design and develop modular products, and are engaging in the connected services business to contribute to the realization of a safe and comfortable mobility society.
  2. 2We are accelerating our initiatives related to decarbonization and circular economy businesses to maintain sustainable growth with society. In the chemicals business, we handle industry-leading biochemicals and are operating and developing the plastic recycling business. In the electronics business, we are responding to the electrification of automobiles by reinforcing our power semiconductor and engineering functions.

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