Strengthening collaboration with business partners

「On 28 March 2025, we entered into a share transfer agreement with 三菱ケミカル(株) and acquired all shares of 富山フィルタートウ(株).」

「We are also advancing the development of the Biomass Product Tree and biomass value chain through collaboration with universities and other companies,」

「In May 2023, Kumamoto University, a national university corporation, and our company entered into a comprehensive partnership agreement. Building on the “One-Time Energy Joint Research Program” established jointly with Kumamoto University's Institute of Industrial Nanomaterials in October 2022, the agreement aims to combine our One-Time Energy technology and other capabilities with Kumamoto University's knowledge and technologies, maximize the use of the unique materials and technologies we have cultivated since our founding, and mutually cooperate in research leading to the co-creation and social implementation of new value not yet available in society, human-resource development, and regional collaboration across 4 business domains: health (healthcare), safety and security, convenience and comfort, and the environment, thereby contributing to the development of both parties and the local community.」

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「In June 2022, Kobe University, a national university corporation, and our company entered into an agreement on the promotion of comprehensive industry-academia collaboration for the development of research and technology and contribution to society. The agreement covers the planning and implementation of joint and commissioned research, human-resource development through organizational collaboration, and the promotion of industry-academia collaboration leveraging Kobe's location. Specific research themes include promoting health in the medical and healthcare field through the “Functional Evaluation and Mechanism Elucidation of Functional Food Materials,” and contributing to greenhouse-gas (GHG) reductions in the green chemistry field through the “Development of Gas-Separation Membranes for Hydrogen/Methane.” We are also considering further themes and will expand research areas that lead to the creation of innovation.」

「In June 2022, Kobe University, a national university corporation, and our company entered into an agreement on the promotion of comprehensive industry-academia collaboration for the development of research and technology and contribution to society.」

「Furthermore, to build the Biomass Product Tree and biomass value chain at the core of the long-term vision “DAICEL VISION 4.0” and medium-term strategy “Accelerate 2025,” we established a new Biomass Innovation Center and are expanding and accelerating co-creation among industry, academia and government with Kyoto University, Kanazawa University and others.」

「Kyoto University, a national university corporation, and our company entered into a comprehensive partnership agreement with the aim of converting biomass, including wood and agricultural, forestry and fishery waste, into high-performance materials and chemicals, returning that value to forest regeneration and the high-value-added use of agricultural, forestry and fishery waste, revitalizing forests, rivers, oceans, rural areas and cities, contributing to the realization of a low-carbon society that coexists with nature, and creating new industries. Under this comprehensive partnership agreement, we also entered into comprehensive research partnership agreements with Kyoto University's Graduate School of Agriculture, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Institute for Chemical Research, Institute of Advanced Energy, and Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere. These agreements aim to conduct basic research and return the results to society under the common themes of research and development toward realization of the new biomass conversion process known as the “New Biomass Product Tree” and sustainable circular use.」

「At Kanazawa University, a national university corporation, where we have established an industry-academia collaboration program and are pursuing joint research, we are constructing a research facility where companies and universities from industry and academia can openly conduct research. With Kyoto University, a national university corporation, we also began full-scale joint research in fiscal 2020 on the complete utilization of wood, including its solubilization under mild conditions.」

「As a result of these activities, in fiscal 2020 the two companies jointly developed a moisture-permeable membrane total heat-exchange element for ventilation equipment and a low-pressure-drop air-filter medium for large air-conditioning systems in response to rising global demand for air quality.」

「In December 2020, vaccination began for enrolled subjects, healthy adults, in the “Phase I/II Clinical Trial of a COVID-19 DNA Vaccine” conducted by Osaka University Hospital, a physician-initiated clinical trial, using our new drug-delivery device.」

「We aim to begin clinical trials as soon as possible through joint development by Osaka University and AnGes,Inc., acceleration of DNA vaccine development using our new administration device and drug-delivery technology, and manufacturing by TAKARA BIO INC., which has plasmid DNA manufacturing technology and facilities, creating an integrated process from development through manufacturing.」

「Although sales volumes increased as the company worked to expand its share at major customers and develop new customers,」

「In July 2019, we established a new joint research program, the “Advanced Science and Technology Joint Research Program,” and its laboratory at Kanazawa University, with the aim of creating new products in the cellulose field, our core business.」

「We are accelerating our efforts to achieve this through the active use of open innovation and M&A.」

「We will pursue the development of new applications together with our customers.」

「On 30 July 2018, we entered into a comprehensive partnership agreement with Kanazawa University, a national university corporation. We aim to strengthen our relationship, particularly in the field of cellulose research, and increase our contribution to society.」

「On 25 August 2017, we entered into a comprehensive partnership agreement with the University of Hyogo, a public university corporation. By leveraging our respective knowledge and human resources, we will foster regional industries and disseminate innovation from the region to the world, with the aim of strengthening the presence of Hyogo Prefecture, one of our founding locations, in the global era.」

「As part of our open innovation initiatives, following the joint research chair in high-speed energy therapy launched with Osaka University in 2016, we began a joint research chair in shock science in April 2017. The new chair conducts research into the fundamental principles of shock phenomena generated during the combustion of high-energy materials and develops technologies for applying those principles.」

「On 25 August 2017, we entered into a comprehensive partnership agreement with the University of Hyogo, a public university corporation. By leveraging our respective knowledge and human resources, we will foster regional industries and disseminate innovation from the region to the world, with the aim of strengthening the presence of Hyogo Prefecture, one of our founding locations, in the global era.」

「The strong bonds of trust with partners that we have built over the years」

「Although we strengthened relationships with major customers and developed new customers amid a global easing of supply and demand for tobacco-filter tow, sales declined due in part to foreign-exchange effects.」

「The strong bonds of trust with partners that we have built over the years」

「Strengthening collaboration with business partners」