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Ashland in JapanAs one of Asia’s major economies, Japan is a key market of Ashland in Asia Pacific. We specialize in supplying customers with tailor-made solutions to solve their challenges. Ashland has one administrative office and one sales office in Japan, with approximately 20 employees. Our customers are from a wide network of markets including: pharmaceutical, food & beverage, personal care, paint & coatings, energy, building & construction, pulp & paper, packaging, printing & writing, tissue & towel. See ashland.com for more information.
Our representatives in Japan provide solutions and services ranging from rheology modifiers to food ingredients to chemical processing. A network of local sales, technical service and distributor representatives serves our key markets:
| Building and Construction | Packaging, Converting and Printing | |
| Chemical Processing | Pulp and Paper | |
| Commercial and Institutional | Transportation | |
| Personal Care |
Akihiro Ishimura
Phone: +81 3 6212 6811
Fax: +81 3 6212 6831
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Cellulose ethers and companion products for construction products for thickening, water retention, sag resistance, workability and consistency, adhesion, stabilization, pumping, rheological properties, and strength.
Water- and organo-soluble polymers from natural and renewable raw materials for thickening and rheology control, conditioning, deposition, emulsification, film formation, and water binding and syneresis control.
Bob Ding
Phone: +86 21 5442 2323 6226
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Products to enhance the end-use performance of packaging paper and improve the operating efficiency of a paper machine, including barrier coatings, dry and wet strength additives, internal and surface size agents, process aids, retention and drainage aids, and water treatment chemistries. As the world’s leading supplier of specialty chemicals and support services to the global pulp and paper industry, we offer an extensive array of process, utility-water and functional chemistries to help our customers improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets and minimize environmental impact.
Coatings Additives - Japan
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Rheology modifiers for paints and coatings that provide efficient thickening with superior batch-to-batch consistency, proven flow and leveling performance, full gloss development, mechanical and freeze-thaw stability and storage stability and bio-resistance.
Food and Beverage - Japan
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Premium food ingredients derived from cellulose, a renewable, natural raw material for thickening, gelling, suspending, immobilizing, stabilizing, or binding.
Frank Qian
Phone: +86 21 2402 4520
Mobile: +86 138 0167 0484
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An extensive array of specialty chemicals can help chemical-processing companies improve operational efficiencies, protect plant assets and minimize environmental impact.
Oil and Gas Technologies - Japan
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Synthetic-based, cellulose-based and guar-based water-soluble polymers for drilling fluids, drill-in-fluids, oil-well cement slurries, completion and workover fluids, and fracturing fluids.
Pharmaceutical - Japan
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Cellulosic pharmaceutical-grade excipients in wide ranges of viscosities, types and degrees of substitution, and varied particle sizes for tablet binding, coatings, modified release and liquid and semi-solid rheology control.
Specialties Solutions - Japan
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Products that provide unique properties from rheology modification and water retention to plasticization and lubrication for adhesives and glues, agricultural products, ceramics, civil engineering, electronics, fire-fighting fluids, foundry, industrial cleaners, inks and printing, mining, paint removers, paper and paper coatings, suspension polymerization, tobacco and welding rods.
Ashland
Shin-Osaka Coper Building
5F, 4-11-21 Nishinakajima
Yodogawa-ku
Osaka
532-0011
Phone: +81 66 838 5752
Ashland
Asteer Kayabacho Building, 3rd floor
6-1, 1-Chome
Shinkawa Chuo-Ku
Tokyo
104-0033
Phone: +81 35 566 8705 or 566 8661
