Nippon Fine Chemical

Nippon Fine Chemical Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells fine chemical, cosmetic, and industrial chemical products in Japan and internationally. It operates through Functional Products and Environmental Hygiene Products segments. The company offers cosmetic ingredients such as skin care, makeup, hair care and personal care products; natural oils and fats for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, industrial, and feed additive applications; and phospholipids used in pharmaceutical raw materials, presome, cholesterol, liposome, and other lipids. It also offers fine chemicals, which includes solar cell hole transport material, monomers for plastics and acid chlorides, alpha hydroxy fatty acid ester, hard and anit fog coating agents, and fatty acid amides; and hygiene products such as commercial detergents, medicinal soaps, disinfectants, and sanitizers. In addition, the company offers Neutron, a lubricant for plastics; and rents real estate properties. The company was formerly known as Nippon Camphor Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Nippon Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. in 1971. Nippon Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1918 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.