Kurita Water Industries
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Company headquarters building
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Native name
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栗田工業株式会社 |
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Machinery |
| Founded | Tokyo (July 13, 1949) |
| Founder | Haruo Kurita |
| Headquarters | Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0001, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Michiya Kadota (President) |
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| Revenue | (US$ 1.57 billion) (FY 2014) |
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Number of employees
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5,222 (as of March 31, 2015) |
| Website | www |
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Footnotes / references |
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JPY 10.4 billion (FY 2014)
Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (栗田工業株式会社 Kurita Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer, providing water treatment chemicals and facilities as well as process treatment chemicals. During the 50´s Kurita Water Industries expanded the portfolio and started with the water treatment facilities business, chemical cleaning business (Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.) and maintenance services. In her second decade, the 60´s, Kurita Water Industries entered the process treatment market, especially in the pulp and paper, petrochemical and steel industries. Since the mid of the 70´s up to now, Kurita Water Industries established 14 overseas subsidiaries and affiliates. Since 2003 Kurita Water Industries is listed in the Nature Stock Index (NAI = Natur-Aktien-Index).
The company was founded in 1949 upon chemical water treatment business (boiler water treatment chemicals). The founder of the company, Haruo Kurita, who had previously served in the Japanese navy, started selling boiler water treatment chemicals based on the navy boiler technology.
In 1951 Kurita entered into water treatment facilities business and established its first R&D center. Two years later the company expanded their offering by starting the chemical cleaning business while 1958 saw Kurita expanding their maintenance services. In 1961 the company was listed on the second section of the and the Osaka Securities Exchange and a year later the company stock was listed on the first section of the aforementioned stock exchanges. By 1962 the company established its second R&D center which resulted in expanding their product line by adding new chemical products for process treatment.
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