Tosoh Corporation

Tosoh Corporation

Type	Public KK
Traded as	: Nikkei 225 Component
Industry	Chemicals
Founded	February 11, 1935 (1935-02-11)
Headquarters	3-8-2, Shiba, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105-8623, Japan
Key people	Kenichi Udagawa, (CEO and President)
Products	Bioscience systems Chemicals Petrochemicals Specialty materials Water treatment technologies
Revenue	$ 7.107 billion USD (FY 2012) (¥ 668.494 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Net income	$ 179.341 million USD (FY 2012) (¥ 16.867 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Number of employees	11,268 (consolidated) (as of March 31, 2012)
Website	Official website
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$ 7.107 billion USD (FY 2012)

$ 179.341 million USD (FY 2012)

Tosoh Corporation (東ソー株式会社, Tōsō Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a global chemical and specialty materials company. The company was founded in 1935 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, as Toyo Soda Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and in 1987 changed its name to Tosoh Corporation. Today, its corporate headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan.

It began as a manufacturer of chlor-alkali and petrochemical commodities and feedstocks. Today it produces other kinds of products including electrolytic managenese dioxide (EMD), specialty polymers, fine chemicals, scientific instrumentation, thin-film materials (sputtering targets (sputtering deposition) and silica glass (quartz)), fabricated silica glass and water treatment technologies.