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Research and Development Policies, Strategies and System

Creating New Businesses by Delivering Comfort, Prosperity, and Inspiration to Future Society

Technology Unit
General Manager of
R&D Planning Division
Dairi Kubo

The Nippon Kayaku Group’s research and development activities are driven by the key concepts of comfort, prosperity, and inspiration, with the aim of addressing the challenges facing future society. Across each business domain, our laboratories focus on themes directly linked to business outcomes, while also promoting company-wide R&D initiatives that look ahead to entry into new fields.
The Research Planning Department is actively working to create new businesses in the environmental ＆ energy unit. As a result of strengthened open innovation efforts in recent years, our anion exchange membrane for water electrolysis used in hydrogen production has progressed to a stage approaching commercialization. In addition, we have begun providing samples to customers of a new firefighting material developed using our proprietary explosives manufacturing technology. Through continuous generation of new business themes beyond these initiatives, we aim to further accelerate business growth.
Starting in fiscal 2026, we will establish the “Future Biz Center Planning Office” to serve as an innovation engine for co-creation and bold challenges. Through this initiative, we aim to identify new forms of value in future society and create new businesses that contribute meaningfully to it.

Research and Development Policies

Vision of R&D

Increase our corporate value
by creating new businesses and products through R&D

The role of the R&D division is to create new businesses and
products through R&D activities and increase
our corporate value. We want to be an R&D division
that can create and increase corporate value.

R&D activities that simultaneously
expand existing core businesses and
develop new businesses to
continuously increase corporate value

R&D to put
“ambidextrous management” into practice

Research and Development Strategies

  • R&D to put “ambidextrous management” into practice
  • Selection of themes based on marketing
  • Active use of open innovation

Research and Development System

Nippon Kayaku’s R&D system has established the Technology Unit to oversee the entire company’s technology divisions in order to respond to new business development and rapid technological innovation. In addition, in each business units, we have an R&D structure tailored to the R&D target fields where future growth can be expected. The R&D system collaborates with the Technology and R&D divisions to develop new products and businesses, introduce innovative technologies, and support commercialization efforts.

Research & Development Division
Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture

Research & Development Division

Aero Business Development Division is co-located with Research＆Development Division of Safety Systems Group and shares pyrotechnic safety technology.

Fine Chemicals R&D Laboratories
Integrated Research Laboratories: Kita Ward, Tokyo

Fine Chemicals R&D Laboratories

R&D Planning Division and Intellectual Property Division are located in the Integrated Research Laboratories, consolidating the company’s R&D organization.

Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories
Kita Ward, Tokyo

Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories

Agrochemicals Laboratories
Kamisu City, Ibaraki Prefecture

Agrochemicals Laboratories

Our Core Technologies

Nippon Kayaku’s R&D Vision aims to “Increase our corporate value by creating new businesses and products through R&D”
　By aggressively introducing various technologies in addition to the technologies we have cultivated to date, we have provided various products to society while deepening our core technologies. In addition, by continuously creating and utilizing intellectual property, we have expanded our business while expanding our core technologies and increase our intellectual assets.
　Going forward, we will continue to strengthen and expand our core technologies while actively introducing new technologies through open innovation and utilizing research DX, and create new businesses and products in four target fields (mobility, environment & energy, electronics, and life sciences) where significant growth can be expected in the future, thereby contributing to society.

TOPICS

DX everyone can participate in
- The birth of the easy-to-use KUMA data analysis support tool

As a result of research DX efforts, there have been more and more cases of digital tools being deployed and verified.
However, we often hear that the complex functions offered by existing tools are difficult to understand, and the tools present a high barrier to entry to beginners.
Thatʼs why Nippon Kayaku developed KUMA*, a data analysis support tool with the aim of making it easy for anyone to try out. KUMA is an intranet tool that works in the browser and requires neither special preparations nor the submission of usage applications. KUMA offers functions for visualizing data in graph form and for performing basic statistical analysis, such as identifying correlated parameters, easily and without the need for specialized knowledge. It is limited to basic functions, so it works fast. This means that even for researchers who are already using full-fledged machine learning and statistical analysis for applications, it can serve as another useful tool for applications it is better suited for.
KUMA has proven popular since it was made available, and weʼve received requests for function additions. We plan to continue updating it on a regular basis to make it an even easier-to-use internal application software.

* An easy-to-use in-house application server that is operated via a web interface. It offers a select set of functions such as statistical processing functions that are frequently used within the company.

KUMAʼs developers:
the Research Strategy Group,
R&D Planning Division,
Technology Unit
Masayoshi Kaneko (left)
Fumio Kurihara (middle)
Yamato Osaki (right)

Examples of KUMA’s statistical analysis output

Research and Development

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