Showa Denko to Transfer its Phenolic Resin Business to Aica
TOKYO -- Showa Denko (SDK) (TOKYO:4004) concluded the final agreement with Aica Kogyo Company, Limited (Aica) (TOKYO & NAGOYA:4206) to transfer the phenolic resin business of SDK to Aica. Annual sales of the business were JPY 4 billion in 2014.
According to the plan for the future, SDK will establish a new company in May 2015. In September 2015, the new company will take over the phenolic resin business of SDK through absorption-type split and commence business. Then SDK will transfer 85% of the new companys shares to Aica also in September 2015. The remaining 15%, to be owned by SDK, will also be transferred to Aica within two years after the initial transfer.
SDK has been providing its customers with phenolic resins in various states such as liquid, lumps, powder, and grains, for wide-ranging uses including electronic materials, housing equipment, and paints.
The size of the domestic market for industrial phenolic resins has been a little less than 100,000 tons a year for some years now. It is forecast that there will not be a major growth of the domestic market in the future. However, overseas markets for industrial phenolic resins are expected to grow, centering on China and ASEAN region. Under these circumstances, SDK has judged that it will not be easy to pursue growth of its phenolic resin business which has a domestic production facility but no overseas one, and that it is essential for the business to make inroads into overseas markets, taking advantage of SDKs technical superiority.
On the other hand, Aica widely operates its businesses in the fields of chemical products, decorative building panels, and building & housing materials, on the basis of its five technologies, namely, technologies for chemical synthesizing, laminating, veneering, wood proce
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