Vision/Mission
Nicca Chemical is the leading supplier of surfactants and cosmetics mainly for industrial professionals in Japan. We make our best effort to create value for customers all over the world. We aim to be chosen as a “global best” group by improving people's wellbeing, maintaining a clean global environment and contributing to society through our business activity.
Business Description
Our company offers the products and know-how to our customers as a base in surface agents, in various fields such as textile chemicals, metalworking, pulp & papermaking, cleaning, hair products, and many others. We have been responding to customers’ needs on a global scale since the 1960s from our headquarters in Fukui prefecture, in the heart of Japan, and our overseas bases in eight countries.
Background
Because Japan is one of the leading textile production centers in the world, it was in textile chemicals, which are indispensable to the textile industry, that we first started growing our business. We developed innovative textile chemicals to lead the industry. Based on the technology and experience gained in textile chemicals, we then branched out into other fields – metals, papermaking, pharmaceuticals, cleaning and cosmetics. While continuing to expand in our key technology, surfactants, Nicca Chemical has steadily grown into an all-round chemical company.
Products/Services
We offer various ranges of surfactants for many industrial fields.
Textile chemicals:
Oiling, scouring, bleaching, chelating and dispersing, penetrant, antifoam, carrier, in-bath quality improver, leveling, oligomer control, agent for printing, antistatic, water and oil repellent, soil-release finishing, flame retardant, softener, deodorant, etc.
Specialty chemicals:
Addition agent for painting, agent for latex and plastic, treatment agent for drainage water, etc.
Pulp & paper:
Deinking, bulking and opacifying, dryer releasing, felt cleaning, softening, flame retardant, etc.
Dry cleaning and professional cleaning agents:
Agents for laundry, wet system, dry cleaning, linen supply, dust control, etc
Cosmetics and pharmaceutical products (sold exclusively in salons):
Hair care, hair color, perm, scalp care, styling, etc.
Markets
2015, Annual Sales Report (unit: million yen)
Japan 21,253
Southeast Asia 22,771
South America 1,794
Others 707
Total 46,526
Industry
Surfactants – one of top suppliers of Japan, especially for textile, specialty, cleaning chemicals, and cosmetics.
Location
Headquarters: 4-23-1, Bunkyo Fukui-city, Fukui-prefecture, Japan 910-8670
Factories : Sabae, Kanto, Kashima
Branches: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya
Sales offices: Fukuoka, Sendai
General R&D centers : Fukui, Shanghai
Overseas affiliated companies: Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, the US, China (Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Beijing), Vietnam, Bangladesh
Competitive Advantages
Nicca Chemical has been developing the leading products in many fields such as textile chemicals, metalworking chemicals, cosmetics, cars, and ecology for over 70 years.
Presently, our company focuses on surface science as key technology and is creating new technologies to apply to areas such as environment & health, raw materials, energy, and new materials.
Nicca Chemical research workers acquire information on customers’ sites and reflect it in research, which is the feature of our company’s research development. And, we use several products with different functions to directly analyze the issues and needs of customers on site and develop the products. Technical experts reside in the foreign bases to solve customer problems on site, grasp customer needs, and promote application research.
Financial Projection
Projection for the fiscal year 2016 (unit: million yen)
Net sales: 50,000
Operating income: 3,000
ROA: 6% level
Reference: projection for the fiscal year 2015 (unit: million yen)
Net sales: 49,067
ROA: 36.38% level
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year: 7,539
Goals & Objectives
As our group’s mid-term management plan, we have a vision to “penetrate and expand the Nicca brand and to become a global best”. In order to permanently grow, we have three principles:
(1) Efficiency: to become a strong company that will thoroughly improve efficiency.
(2) Innovation: to become a company that will enrich the future.
(3) Sustainability: to become a company where the Nicca brand creates value.
Also, we have a general group strategy:
(1) Deepening the chemical business
Basic policy: by strengthening our R&D capabilities and customer service, we aim for the unparalleled position of no.1 in the core business.
A. Globally no.1 in textile chemicals.
B. Creation of new businesses.
C. Enable low-cost operations.
(2) Expanding the cosmetics business
Basic policy: to adhere to the beauty professional quality and to grow with unparalleled support from our customers.
A. Nominated strategy and shop-sale strategy.
B. Multi-branding strategy.
C. Diversification and internationalization strategy.
(3) Strengthening the management foundation
Basic policy: develop a management foundation that will support sustainable growth, and strengthen the group’s governance thoroughly.
A. Strengthening financial structure.
B. Foster the next generation of human resources.
C. Strategic application of group information.
D. Reinforcement of our crisis management system.
Management
Yasumasa Emori, President
Kazuhisa Tatsumura, Senior Managing Director, Member of the Board
Employees
1,373 people (consolidated, as of December 31, 2015)
Highlights
1938 Nicca Chemical Industry & Co., Ltd. was established.
1941 Nicca Chemical Industry Co.,Ltd. was established.
1967 Nicca General Research Center was established in Fukui.
1968 Taiwan Nicca Chemical Co., Ltd. was established in Taiwan.
1971 Nicca Korea Co., Ltd. and the Daegu Factory were established in Korea.
1974 Siam Textile Chemical Co., Ltd. (now STC Nicca Co., Ltd.) was established in Thailand.
PT. Indonesia Nicca Chemicals Co., Ltd. was established in Indonesia.
1981 Began cosmetics and hair care business.
1988 Nicca USA, Inc. was established in America.
Hong Kong Chemical Co., Ltd. was established in Hong Kong.
1993 Guangzhou Nicca Chemical Co., Ltd. was established in China.
Listed on the Second Section of the Nagoya Stock Exchange.
1995 Zhejiang Nicca Chemical Co., Ltd. was established in China.
1996 Rhodia & Nicca Co., Ltd (current Solvay Nicca Co., Ltd.) was established in Tokyo.
2002 Nicca Chemical Technical Solution Center (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (current Nicca Chemical Research & Development Co., Ltd.) was established in Shanghai.
2004 Nicca Vietnam Co., Ltd. was established.
2010 Kashima Factory was opened in Ibaragi.
2012 Demi Korea Co., Ltd. was established in Korea.
2015 Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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